Tyrrell's Sea Salt & Black Pepper Crisps — TREAT
Munch or Dump rates Tyrrell's Sea Salt & Black Pepper Crisps by Tyrrell's TREAT — score 43/90.
Simple, clean-label crisps with no artificial junk, but they're still deep-fried potato in sunflower oil - an indulgence, not a health food.
Why this verdict
- Deep-fried in sunflower oil - 27g fat and ~500 calories per 100g
- Salty snack you'll keep reaching into - easy to overeat
- Refined carbs from potato plus added rice flour
- Genuinely clean list otherwise: no artificial flavors, colors, or MSG
Ingredients (8)
- potatoes (safe) — Whole potato base - a real food.
- Sunflower Oil (moderate) — Refined seed oil; fine in the modest amounts used here.
- rice flour (moderate) — Refined starch that completes the fast-carb triad.
- Sea Salt (moderate) — Sodium source; no nutritional edge over regular salt.
- Spices (black pepper) (safe) — Real cracked and ground black pepper for flavor - a plus.
- Sugar (moderate) — Added for sweetness, can contribute to calorie content.
- YEAST EXTRACT (moderate) — A hidden source of free glutamate, stacked with MSG for umami.
- natural flavouring (moderate) — Undefined flavour compound; 'natural' but unspecified, a minor processing marker.