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Country Cheese Crackers | Chewsday Review

Today's Chewsday Review features a reader's request. Arnott's Country Cheese Crackers are a kiddie favourite, and surely they're just a plain, old savoury biscuit? Let's see!

Ingredients

Positives

Sugar content is within healthy recommendations at 5.1g/100g, however, as a savoury biscuit I’d prefer it to be a bit lower!
The melt in the mouth texture is good for kiddies who are working on their biting and chewing skills- but I’d prefer to use baby risks or cruskits for this job. We might use crackers like this in feeding therapy to help kids branch out with new tastes, but I’m really stretching it here to call that a positive.

Negatives

The BIGGEST negative here is the sodium (salt) content. Healthy guidelines recommend less than 420mg/100g and this biscuit contains 1120mg/100g. That’s almost 3 times recommended and more than double most potato chips! I’ll bet that most parents wouldn’t have considered these equivalent to a chip.
The fat content exceeds healthy guidelines by almost 50%, at 14.4g/100g and the saturated fat content exceeds healthy guidelines by about the same amount at 4.4g/100g. Compared to chips, these biscuits have less total fat, but 20% more saturated fat (bad fat)!

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