Cheez-It Double Cheese Thin and Crispy Baked Snacks, 150g

Cheez-It are baked cheese crackers, and Snap'd is the thin, crispy range. Double Cheese is the plain cheese one, with cheese twice over: baked into the dough and dusted on top. This is the 150g sharing bag. The full product name on the pack is thin and crispy baked snacks with cheese and cheese seasoning, and the listing names Kellogg Marketing and Sales Company (UK) Limited, of Salford, as the UK distributor.

The ingredients

According to the published pack listing, the crackers are made from wheat flour, sunflower oil (with a tocopherol rich extract as antioxidant), starch, dehydrated potatoes, a cheese seasoning, cheese (milk, 4.2%), oat fibre, sugar, salt, raising agents (ammonium carbonates), acids (citric and lactic), emulsifiers (lecithins) and colours (curcumin, annatto norbixin and paprika extract).

The seasoning

The seasoning lists whey permeate powder (milk), maltodextrin, salt, cheese powder (milk, 0.5%), buttermilk powder (milk), onion powder, flavourings, citric and lactic acid, sugar, yeast extract, garlic powder, rapeseed oil and paprika extract.

Double cheese

The double is cheese twice: cheese makes up 4.2% of the cracker, baked into the dough itself, and more cheese powder, with whey permeate and buttermilk, goes on in the seasoning. Lactic acid gives the tang of a mature cheese.

Onion and garlic

Onion powder and garlic powder sit in the seasoning, a savoury background that rounds the cheese without making it a cheese and onion flavour.

Baked, thin and crispy

The pack describes the crackers as thin and crispy and baked. Wheat flour, starch and dehydrated potato make a light dough, and ammonium carbonates, a traditional baking raising agent, help it puff and crisp in the oven.

The tocopherols

The sunflower oil carries a tocopherol rich extract, a natural antioxidant related to vitamin E, which helps keep the oil fresh.

Oat fibre

Oat fibre adds fibre and a little body to the dough. Oats are one of the cereals containing gluten under UK allergen rules, so it is highlighted with the wheat.

Lecithins

Lecithins are emulsifiers that help the dough mix evenly. The list does not name their source, and the allergy advice says the crackers may contain soya.

No artificial colours or flavours

The listing says there are no artificial colours or flavours. The orange colour comes from curcumin, the yellow of turmeric, annatto and paprika extract.

Yeast extract

Yeast extract gives savoury depth behind the cheese. It is naturally rich in glutamates, worth knowing for anyone who avoids them altogether; there is no added MSG on the list.

Numbers per serving

The label gives 150 kcal (628 kJ), 7.5g of fat, 1g of saturates, 18g of carbohydrate, 0.9g of sugars, 1.2g of fibre, 2g of protein and 0.45g of salt for each 30g serving. That is about 8% of an average adult's daily energy reference intake, 11% of the fat and 8% of the salt. Per 100g it is 500 kcal (2093 kJ), 25g of fat, 3.3g of saturates, 60g of carbohydrate, 3g of sugars, 4.1g of fibre, 6.8g of protein and 1.5g of salt.

Reading the front of the pack

On the UK front of pack scale, per 100g, fat at 25g is red. Saturates at 3.3g are amber. Sugars at 3g are green. Salt at 1.5g is amber, right on the line.

Allergens and diet

The published ingredients highlight wheat, in the wheat flour, oats, in the oat fibre, and milk, in the cheese, whey permeate, cheese powder and buttermilk powder. The allergy advice says the crackers may contain mustard and soya. The listing says they are vegetarian certified and halal certified; they are not vegan, and they are not suitable for anyone avoiding gluten or milk. Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.

Halal and vegetarian

The listing says Cheez-It are vegetarian certified and halal certified.

Five servings

At 150g, the bag holds five of the label's 30g servings. Tip a serving into a bowl rather than eating from the bag.

Snap'd

Snap'd is the name of the thin, crispy range, and the crackers break with a clean snap. They are thinner than a classic cheese cracker, closer to a crisp.

The pack

The red and orange bag carries the white Cheez-It name, the orange Snap'd word, a yellow band reading double cheese, and blocks of cheese beside a pile of crackers and the 150g weight.

Who it suits

A thin, cheesy baked cracker suits anyone who likes a cheese snack without heat or smoke, and the halal and vegetarian statements suit many tables. It is not suitable for anyone avoiding gluten or milk.

Serving the bag

Serve it with a tomato soup, beside a cheeseboard with chutney, or with a glass of red wine.

In the kitchen

Crushed, the crackers make a cheesy crumb for the top of a macaroni cheese, a fish pie or a tomato gratin.

Storage and packaging

Keep the bag cool and dry and clip it shut between servings. The published recycling guidance says the whole packaging can be recycled with carrier bags at large supermarkets and should not go in home recycling.

Other Cheez-It

In the same 150g Snap'd bag we stock Cheez-It Cheese and Chilli and Cheese and Smokey Bacon.

Other 150g packs of Cheez-It Snap'd we stock

Figures as published on each pack's label.

The tasting notes on this page are our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.