Smiths Frazzles crisps are a crunchy crisp with a distinctive look and taste – that is the look and taste of a delicious piece of bacon, so we get asked a lot “are Frazzles vegetarian?”
Frazzles are made to look like a piece of streaky bacon with its red and yellow lined effect and it has a small wave in the crisp as well to add to the effect. When you bite into these delicious crisps there is a big hit of bacon flavour too.
So are Frazzles vegetarian or not? Well if we look at the ingredients which are:
Corn (Maize), Rapeseed Oil, Bacon Flavour Seasoning [Salt, Wheat Flour (contains Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein (contains Soya), Dextrose, Yeast Powder, Flavour Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium 5′-Ribonucleotides), Potassium Chloride, Flavourings (contains Soya), Lactose (from Milk), Sugar, Yeast Extract (contains Barley), Rusk (from Wheat), Whey Powder (from Milk), Colours (Paprika Extract, Sulphite Ammonia Caramel), Barley Malt Flour, Smoke Flavouring], Colour (Beetroot Red)
We can see that YES FRAZZLES ARE VEGETARIAN!
Whoop praise the Lord.
These crisps may have the sweet flavour of bacon but with most crisps there is no actual meat product inside them, it is just a flavouring created by the boffins at Smiths Crisps to give the crisps a lovely bacon flavour but without harming any animals in the process.
As the crisps contain milk they are not Vegan however.
The bacon colour on the crisps is created using food colourings – as with nearly all snack products – and in this case the classic paprika extract has been used to give the crisps a darker red colour.
So now you know the answer to the question “are Frazzles vegetarian?” – yes indeed they are!
