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Abe’s Bagel Crisps with Vegemite | Chewsday Review

Bagel crisps with a classic like Vegemite, what’s more to love? (At least it’s not in chocolate this time, right?) I don’t know about you but “bagel crisps” sounds so much more fancier than “potato chips”. Well, today we will see whether they really belong as a bagel or if they’re just another chip.

Ingredients

Wheat flour, water, canola oil, bagel base [sugar, enriched wheat flour, malted barley flour, wheat gluten, firming agent (calcium sulphate), antioxidant (ascorbic acid), salt, enzymes], flavour (4%), (contains barley, milk), Vegemite (2%) [yeast extract (contains barely, wheat), salt, mineral salt (potassium chloride), malt extract (from barely), colour (caramel III*), flavours, niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, folate], iodised salt, yeast, vinegar.
*a dark brown colouring produced from sugar
Common allergens include: wheat, barley, milk and may contain: soy and sesame seeds

Positives

Negatives

Sodium exceeds nutritional guidelines at 800 mg / 100g. This is nearly double healthy guidelines, set at 420mg/100 grams (we can thank our happy little Vegemite for being extra salty but unfortunately other products in the range are still above 420)
Total fat in this product just falls above the healthy guidelines at 10.1 grams instead of 10 grams/100 grams. While this isn’t that bad and is way lower than chips (averagely at around 35 grams/100) , a plain bagel from this company only has 1.3 grams per 100 grams!

Marketing

”No artificial flavours” this is hard to judge as the ingredient list only labels flavour as well… “flavour”…
”No palm oil”. Abe’s Vegemite bagels uses canola oil. Canola oil has a better fat profile with more unsaturated fats (good) than saturated fat (not good).
These happy little bagel crisps are “baked not fried” in oil, but we don’t know what this is baked with… It could be baked in oil!

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