Taylors Chip Shop Curry Sauce Ridge Cut Potato Crisps, 150g

Chip shop curry sauce is the mild, sweet and spiced sauce ladled over chips across Britain, and Taylors puts the flavour on a ridge cut crisp. This is the 150g sharing bag, which the label suggests serves five. The full product name on the pack is chip shop curry sauce flavour potato crisps, and the pack names Taylors Snacks Ltd as the maker.

The ingredients

According to the published pack listing, the crisps are made from potatoes, high oleic sunflower oil and a chip shop curry sauce flavour seasoning (natural flavouring, sugar, yeast extract powder, onion powder, turmeric, cayenne pepper, fenugreek seed, ginger, white pepper, fennel seed, salt, garlic powder and citric acid).

A curry sauce blend

The spices are the ones you would expect in a chip shop curry sauce. Turmeric gives the golden colour and an earthy note, fenugreek the savoury, slightly bitter curry character, ginger and white pepper a gentle warmth, and fennel seed a sweet, aniseed edge. Sugar and onion give the sauce its mild sweetness, and yeast extract its savoury depth.

How hot is it

Cayenne pepper is the only chilli on the list, and it sits in the middle of the spice blend. The pack gives a chilli rating of one, so expect a warm, mild curry spice rather than heat.

Ridge cut

The crisps are ridge cut, with deep grooves on both faces that hold the seasoning and give a firm, thick crunch. The pack promises a thick-cut crunch like no other.

High oleic sunflower oil

The crisps are fried in high oleic sunflower oil, a sunflower oil bred to be rich in oleic acid, the main fat in olive oil, which is more stable at frying temperatures than standard sunflower oil.

Numbers per serving

The front of the pack gives 147 kcal (615 kJ), 7.5g of fat, 0.6g of saturates, 0.2g of sugars and 0.29g of salt for each 30g serving, which it puts at 7% of an average adult's daily energy reference intake, 11% of the fat and 5% of the salt. Per 100g the label gives 490 kcal (2051 kJ), 25g of fat, 2g of saturates, 58g of carbohydrate, 1.6g of sugars, 4.6g of fibre, 6.1g of protein and 1g of salt.

Reading the front of the pack

On the UK front of pack scale, per 100g, fat at 25g is red, as it is for fried crisps generally. Saturates at 2g are amber. Sugars at 1.6g are green. Salt at 1g is amber, in the middle of its band.

Allergens and diet

No allergens from the UK list of 14 are highlighted in the published ingredients. The allergy advice says the crisps may contain milk. The pack says they are suitable for vegans and gluten free. Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.

Vegan and gluten free

No dairy, egg, meat or gluten containing cereal is on the list, and the pack states the crisps are suitable for vegans and gluten free, which makes a curry flavour available to more of the table. The may contain milk advice is worth noting for anyone with a milk allergy.

Yeast extract

Yeast extract powder gives a savoury depth behind the spices. It is naturally rich in glutamates, worth knowing for anyone who avoids them altogether.

Non greasy

The pack describes the crisps as non greasy and promises a true tattie taste, tattie being the Scots word for potato. With a mild seasoning, the potato comes through behind the spice.

The pack

The orange bag, striped with brown waves, carries an illustrated street of old shops in an oval window, with a portion of chips in front of the words chip shop curry sauce. A row of four chillies sits in the corner, one of them filled in red for the chilli rating.

Serving the bag

Taylors suggests putting the crisps in a well buttered roll, and a crisp roll is hard to beat with this flavour. They also go with a cold lager, a plate of chips and gravy, or a bowl of mango chutney and a yoghurt dip.

In the kitchen

Crushed, the crisps make a curried crumb for fish goujons, chicken strips or the top of a cauliflower cheese.

Five servings

At 150g, the bag suggests five servings of 30g. Tip a serving into a bowl, and reseal the bag to keep it airtight.

Storage and packaging

The pack advises a cool, dry place and resealing the bag once open. 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 Taylors flavours

In the same 150g bag we stock Taylors Lightly Sea Salted Ridge Cut, Mature Cheddar and Onion, Sea Salt and Vinegar and Blazin BBQ.

Other 150g packs of Taylors we stock

Figures as published on each pack's label.

The published listing gives the United Kingdom as the country of origin. The tasting notes on this page are our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.