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Little Quacker Rice Biscuit | Chewsday Review

Today's review is of Little Quacker Rice Biscuits- strawberry flavour. Props to Little Quacker for the name and the duck logo (although speech pathologist might be eye rolling at the deliberate mispronunciation!)

Ingredients

Organic rice flour, organic sugar, salt, organic natural strawberry flavour, citric acid, gelatin, purple carrot juice.
The flour, sugar and flavour may be organic, but this doesn’t make them any more nutritious than regular ingredients.
Strawberry flavour is also a little unclear. I’m not sure whether this actually comes from strawberries, contains sweetener or is just a strawberry essence.

Positives

Negatives

$75 per kilo. 20c per biscuit. Doesn’t sound like much, but regular rice crackers are about $22 per kilo and 4c per biscuit.
Sodium content of 319mg/100g. Technically this isn’t a ‘high’ salt product but it’s definitely not a low salt food. In fact, it’s got as much sodium as pizza or cheddar flavoured rice crackers. Now that’s not what you’d be expecting in a sweet biscuit!
Sugar content exceeds healthy guidelines by about a third. The addition of sugar and juice contributes to this total. In two biscuits you only get 1g of sugar, but that’s just because a biscuit weighs only 2.5g. This isn’t something you need in a “kid’s” biscuit (I also don’t agree with “kid” specific food but that’s a story for another day).

Marketing

‘Oven baked’ This tells me nothing useful but is obviously designed to suggest it’s a healthy option (which isn’t guaranteed just by baking it in an oven).
‘The perfect balance between nutrition and taste’. Well this is debatable. These biscuits aren’t too bad, but there’s very little nutrition in them.
The ‘organic’ label is plastered all over the product. That’s great, but remember that organic doesn’t mean more nutritious.

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