Arnott’s Bluey Pizza Flavoured Snacks | Chewsday Review
Bluey is a hit across the globe, but are Bluey's pizza flavoured snacks a hit for lunchboxes too? Let's take a look...
- Wheat flour, vegetable oil, vegetable fibre, salt, yeast, sugar, herb extract, tomato powder, natural flavour, garlic powder, onion powder, food acid (citric acid), food colour (paprika extract), spice extract, herbs.
- Common allergens: wheat, gluten.
- May contain: egg, milk, tree nuts, peanut, sesame, soy.
- Fibre content (2.2g per serve) is at the higher end of most crackers and surprisingly even more than Woolworth’s Multigrain Brown Rice Crackers, with 1.3g per serve. The fibre content comes from the added vegetable fibre, which is a blend of veggie pulp and peel. Just one pack of these snacks meets 10% of a school aged child’s daily fibre requirements.
- Saturated fat content is within the guidelines at 2.3g per 100g. This is comparable to the Arnott’s Bluey Cheese Flavoured Snacks and Sunbites with Quinoa Cheddar and Chives, and much lower than Natural Veggie Co Cheese Ring Snacks.
- It’s common for savoury snacks to be low in sugar and it’s no different for these Bluey snacks which contain 1.9g per 100g.
- You’ll find Bluey on each individual cracker which is likely to spark the interest of kids.
- They are high-ish in salt, just over the guidelines at 447mg of sodium per 100g (we’re aiming for less than 400mg per 100g).
- Total fat is also relatively high at 21.5g per 100g (aiming for less than 10g per 100g), but I’m not overly concerned as the saturated fat is within the guidelines.
- As with most pre-packaged snacks, they are expensive and work out to 62c per bag or almost $30 per kilo! You’re really paying for the Bluey brand and of course the convenience.
- One word – Bluey. Anything with the face of a much loved character is going to be a hit with the kids (mine included!). Well played from the Arnott’s marketing team.
- “No artificial colours, flavours or preservatives”. All true, but this isn’t really unexpected given the same can be said for many savoury snacks.
- Like the other flavours, they come with a “4.0 Health Star Rating” which comes from the protein and fibre content, and means they compare fairly well against other savoury crackers and chips.
- Despite being a bit on the salty side, these are a reasonable option for a pre-packaged snack. They’re low in saturated fat and sugar, and higher in fibre than most crackers, chips and savoury snacks out there.
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The composition of food products changes regularly. The nutritional values of the products in this Chewsday Review were correct at the time of publishing.
