# Jacob's Bites Crackers - Red Leicester Flavour, 125g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £2.20 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/jacobs-bites-crackers-red-leicester-flavour-125g/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/jacobs-bites-crackers-red-leicester-flavour-125g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Jacob's **Price:** £2.20 GBP **GTIN:** 5000168004143 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Jacob's Bites Red Leicester Flavour is a bite-size savoury cracker seasoned on both faces with a mellow cheese note, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the calm one: a single-direction snacking pack that takes a hot mug of tea happily.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat and barley (gluten), milk and sulphites. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Named after a mellow, faintly nutty English cheese rather than a sharp one, which is the brand signalling that the savoury note is rounded rather than sharp, and the reason these are so easy to eat by the handful.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Storage, the tea pairing and why pickles beat a dip are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below. ## Description Jacob's Bites Red Leicester Flavour is the single-direction pack in this range: small bite-size crackers seasoned on both faces with a cheese note, and nothing else going on. Where the sweet chilli version pulls two ways at once, this one says one thing clearly and keeps saying it. The name matters more than people assume. Red Leicester is a mellow, faintly nutty English cheese rather than a sharp one, and a seasoning named after it points at a rounder, softer savoury note than a mature cheddar seasoning would. That is why these are so easy to eat by the handful: there is no sharp edge to tire the palate, and the salt is restrained by the standards of a seasoned snack. The Taste Profile Cheese Note: ●●●●○ (4/5) The whole character of the pack, and named after a mellow English cheese rather than a sharp one, which sets the direction. Salt: ●●●○○ (3/5) Present but restrained by the standards of a seasoned snack, which is why these do not tire the palate as quickly as they might. Crisp Snap: ●●●●○ (4/5) A small, thin, dry bite that breaks cleanly rather than melting, seasoned on both faces so every piece eats the same. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.7 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Jacob's Jacob's is the name most British households associate with the cream cracker, and the Bites range is that baking pointed at a completely different occasion. A cream cracker is a plate for cheese; a Bite has the cheese note already on it and is sized for a bowl. Naming a seasoning after a specific British cheese rather than a generic cheese flavour is a deliberate signal about which direction the savoury note takes, and it is the most useful thing on the front of the pack. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying Weight: 125g. Seasoned on both faces: there is no plain side, so this is not a cracker you build on. Everything it is going to say, it says on its own. A mellow cheese direction: named after Red Leicester rather than a mature cheddar, which is the brand telling you the savoury note is rounded and nutty rather than sharp. That is the single most useful piece of information on the pack. What it is not: not a baked cheese snack with cheese through the dough, not a cheeseboard cracker and not a crisp. It is a dry baked bite-size cracker with a savoury seasoning on it. How Does Jacob's Bites Crackers - Red Leicester Flavour, 125g Compare to: Jacob's Bites Sweet Chilli & Sour Cream Flavour Crackers, 125g: the same format from the same range, pulling in two directions instead of one. That pack needs a cold drink and keeps restating itself; this one is calmer, happier with a hot mug of tea, and the better choice if there are children in the room. Nairn's Cheese Oatcakes, 200g: An oatcake is dense, slow and genuinely filling where this is light and quick, and it is the one to buy if the cheese note is the reason you are here rather than the snacking. Ideal Serving Conditions What it needs is something with enough grip to cut a salty, savoury coating and clear the palate, which means tannin or acid rather than sweetness, and it happily takes a hot drink where the chilli pack does not. The Standard Tea Break A strong breakfast blend: the natural partner. Tannin cuts a savoury coating cleanly and comes back ready for the next handful. Milk, no sugar: milk softens the tannin to a comfortable level. Sugar against a cheese seasoning is the one combination to avoid here. Black filter coffee: works well and keeps the savoury note in the foreground, which a milky coffee blurs. Skip the delicate ones: green, white and first-flush teas are simply buried. Keep those for a plain sweet biscuit. In a Bowl With Other Things Pickles and cornichons: acid is the thing that resets the palate against a savoury coating, and a small bowl of pickles beside the crackers does more than any dip. Cherry tomatoes: fresh, wet and slightly sweet, which is the easiest contrast to a dry savoury cracker and the one children reach for. Cold cuts: work, but keep the portions small, because ham and a cheese seasoning together tip the plate into one long salty note. No cheese on top: a cheese-seasoned cracker with cheese on it is one layer too many. If you want to build, use a plain cracker. Getting It Right Reseal properly: small, thin and dry means they take on moisture quickly. Clip the pack or decant into a tub, and the seasoning aroma lasts longer too. Room temperature: cold flattens a dairy-style seasoning noticeably, and this pack has nothing else to fall back on. Something acidic alongside: pickles, cornichons or tomatoes between handfuls reset the palate far better than another savoury item does. Best with: a strong mug of tea in the afternoon, or a bowl on a table with a film on. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat and barley (gluten), milk and sulphites. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. On the words Red Leicester: that is the brand's own naming on the front of the pack, chosen to describe the direction of the savoury note. It is not a statement from us about what is in the pack, and anybody who needs to know whether dairy is present should read the current UK pack. ## Product Questions Why does the pack name a specific cheese?Because it tells you which direction the savoury note takes. Red Leicester is a mellow, faintly nutty English cheese rather than a sharp one, so a seasoning named after it points at a rounder note than a mature cheddar seasoning would. It is the most useful thing on the front of the pack. Is there real cheese in it?Red Leicester flavour is the brand's own naming, and what stands behind that name is printed on the current UK pack. Anybody who needs to know whether dairy is present should read the label rather than this page. Which tea goes with it?A strong breakfast blend, milk, no sugar. Tannin cuts a savoury coating cleanly and comes back ready for the next handful, whereas sugar against a cheese seasoning is the one combination we would avoid entirely. How is this different from the sweet chilli version?That pack pulls two ways at once and keeps restating itself, and it needs a cold drink because chilli is not water-soluble. This one says one thing clearly, takes a hot mug of tea happily and is the easier choice if there are children in the room. How many are in the pack?What we can stand behind is the net weight, 125g. On a bite-size pack the count runs into the hundreds. Can I put cheese on them?We would not. They are seasoned on both faces, so there is no plain side to build on, and a cheese-seasoned cracker with cheese on top is one layer too many. If you want a cracker to build with, the plain Ritz box is the one. What should I serve alongside?Something acidic. Pickles, cornichons or cherry tomatoes between handfuls reset the palate against a savoury coating far better than a dip does, and better than another savoury item ever will. How should I store the pack once it is open?Clipped shut or decanted into a tub. These are small, thin and dry, so they take on moisture quickly, and the seasoning aroma fades alongside the crispness. A soft handful is usually an old open pack rather than a bad pack. Do they work with soup?Well, and better than they work with anything else savoury. Season the soup lighter than usual because the crackers are bringing salt, and serve them alongside rather than crumbled in so they stay crisp for the whole bowl. Are they good for a lunchbox?Yes, provided they go in a separate compartment from anything wet. Pack something fresh alongside, a tomato or a few cucumber batons, because that resets the palate far better than a second savoury item does. Is it a crisp or a cracker?A cracker, baked rather than fried, which is why it keeps better than a crisp and breaks with a cleaner snap. People use it like a crisp, in a bowl beside a drink, and that is a perfectly good use for it. ## Ingredients & Nutrition Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat and barley (gluten), milk and sulphites. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Dried Potato (contains Sulphites), Sunflower Oil, Starch, Natural Flavourings (contains Milk, Wheat), Maltodextrin, Wheat Gluten, Barley and Barley Malt Extract, Raising Agents (Sodium Bicarbonate, Disodium Diphosphate), Glucose Syrup, Salt, Flour Treatment Agent (Sodium Metabisulphite), Wheat Starch.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy476 kcalFat20.8gof which saturates2gCarbohydrate63.6gof which sugars9.2gFibre2.8gProtein7.6gSalt1.6gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsRed Leicester cheese seasoningthe lead noteThe whole character of the pack, and named after a mellow, faintly nutty English cheese rather than a sharp one. That naming is the brand signalling a rounded savoury direction instead of a sharp cheddar edge.SaltrestrainedPresent but held back by the standards of a seasoned snack, which is why a handful of these does not tire the palate the way a saltier seasoning would.A thin, dry bite-size bakethe structureSmall, thin and dry so it snaps cleanly rather than melting, seasoned on both faces so every piece eats the same as the last. A bowl format rather than a board format.Pack: Best before the date printed on the pack, and best clipped shut or decanted into a tub once opened.Characterising components shown; the full ingredient declaration, the nutrition panel including the salt and fat figures, whether any cheese is present, the piece count and any certification marks are printed on the current UK pack. Red Leicester flavour is the brand's own naming on the front of the pack and not a statement from us about what is inside it.Sourcing & blend. Jacob's Bites Crackers - Red Leicester Flavour, 125g comes from the brand most British households associate with the cream cracker, pointed at a different occasion. A cream cracker is a plate for cheese; a Bite already has the cheese note on it and is sized for a bowl. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe.What is in Jacob's Bites Crackers - Red Leicester Flavour, 125g:In: small savoury crackers seasoned on both faces with a cheese note, 125g net to the pack. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Jacob's Bites Crackers - Red Leicester Flavour, 125g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the pack tastes the way it does from the moment it opens to the note left on the palate.The outer layer is aromatic and it is a single, unmistakable savoury smell rather than a combination. A dairy-style seasoning carries short-chain compounds that read as cheese almost instantly and do not need any warmth to release them, so an opened pack announces itself straight away at room temperature. Because the whole of it sits exposed on the surface of a dry bake rather than locked into a crumb, it also leaves quickly: an open pack smells of noticeably less by the second or third day, and that fade happens before the crackers lose their snap. If a handful smells faint but still tastes savoury, the pack has been open too long rather than been badly made.The flavour spike is a single clean savoury arrival rather than a sequence, and its character is set by the cheese the pack is named after. A seasoning modelled on a mellow, nutty cheese lands rounder and lower than one modelled on a mature cheddar, with none of the sharp lactic bite that makes a strong cheese snack tiring after a few pieces. Salt sits underneath it, restrained. The trade-off is honest enough, which is that the third piece tastes exactly like the first.The base structure is a savoury coating on a dry, quick-clearing crumb. The cracker itself is gone almost immediately, being thin and dry rather than fatty, but the seasoning stays on the palate and carries into the next piece, so the savoury note accumulates gently across a handful. That is what makes something acidic alongside more useful than anything else: pickles, cornichons or a cherry tomato cut the coating and reset the palate, where a second savoury item simply adds another layer to it. It is also why a strong tannic tea works so well, doing exactly the same job from the cup.Getting it right in the cup. Tea, and unusually for a seasoned pack it takes a hot drink happily, because there is no chilli here to be made worse by heat. A strong breakfast blend with milk and no sugar is the right answer: tannin cuts a savoury coating cleanly and comes back ready for the next handful, while sugar against a cheese seasoning is the one combination we would rule out. Black filter coffee works and keeps the savoury note forward where a milky coffee blurs it. Green, white and first-flush teas are simply buried. Beside the bowl, put something acidic rather than something savoury: pickles or cherry tomatoes reset the palate far better than a dip does. Serve at room temperature, because cold flattens a dairy-style seasoning noticeably and this pack has nothing else to fall back on.How water and temperature change it. These are small, thin and dry, so they exchange moisture with the air faster than a thicker cracker does, and a pack left open on a counter will be softer by the following evening. The aroma goes before the texture, which is the reverse of what people expect: the seasoning fades first and the crispness follows a day or so later, so a pack can taste right and smell of almost nothing. Clipping it shut or decanting into a tub solves both at once. There is no coating to bloom, so warmth itself is not the enemy, though a warm cupboard dulls the aroma over time. On the drink side, hard water flattens the astringency of a black tea, and astringency is precisely what you are relying on to cut a savoury coating, so in a hard-water area brew a minute longer or switch to coffee. ## Recipe Ideas Five ideas cover the tea break this pack suits better than its sweet chilli sibling, a soup lunch, a pickle plate, a lunchbox and a savoury crumb. Recipes, born here first The Afternoon Tea Break How to make The Afternoon Tea Break with Jacob's Bites Red Leicester. 5 min 1 mug Easy You'll need A bowl of Jacob's Bites Red Leicester 1 bag strong breakfast tea 250ml water at a full boil A splash of milk Method Brew a strong breakfast blend for four minutes. Tannin is what cuts a savoury coating, and a delicate tea gets buried. Add milk and no sugar. Sugar against a cheese seasoning is the one combination worth ruling out entirely. Tip the crackers into a bowl rather than eating from the pack, and let them come to room temperature first. Clip the pack shut afterwards. The aroma fades a day or two before the crispness does. What you'll end up with: The pairing this pack takes more happily than its sweet chilli sibling does, because there is no chilli here for a hot drink to make worse. The Pickle Plate How to make The Pickle Plate with Jacob's Bites Red Leicester. 10 min 4 people Easy You'll need A bowl of Jacob's Bites Red Leicester Cornichons and pickled onions Cherry tomatoes Celery batons Cracked black pepper Method Put the crackers in their own bowl so they stay dry and do not season the rest of the plate. Set something acidic beside them. Pickles reset the palate against a savoury coating far better than a creamy dip does. Add cherry tomatoes for something fresh and slightly sweet, which is the contrast children reach for first. Skip the cheese entirely: it is already on the cracker. What you'll end up with: A plate built on contrast rather than on more of the same, which is what a single-direction savoury pack actually needs. Soup and a Bowl of Bites How to make Soup and a Bowl of Bites with Jacob's Bites Red Leicester. 10 min 2 bowls Easy You'll need 500ml vegetable or tomato soup A generous handful of crackers per bowl Black pepper and parsley A spoonful of cream, optional Method Season the soup lighter than you normally would, because the crackers are bringing salt and a savoury seasoning of their own. Serve them alongside rather than crumbled in, so they stay crisp for the whole bowl. Finish the soup with pepper and parsley, or a spoonful of cream if it needs rounding. Alternate spoonfuls and handfuls rather than eating the crackers first. What you'll end up with: A ten-minute lunch where the cracker does the seasoning. Better than bread beside a thin soup, and it keeps in the cupboard. The Lunchbox Bowl How to make The Lunchbox Bowl with Jacob's Bites Red Leicester. 5 min 1 box Easy You'll need A small handful of crackers Cherry tomatoes Cucumber batons Apple slices Celery, optional Method Keep the crackers in a separate compartment from anything wet or they will be soft by mid-morning. Pack something fresh alongside rather than a second savoury item; that is what actually resets the palate. Clip the main pack shut before it goes back in the cupboard. What you'll end up with: A savoury lunchbox that needs no sandwich and no cheese, because the cheese note is already on the cracker. Savoury Crumb for a Traybake How to make Savoury Crumb for a Traybake with Jacob's Bites Red Leicester. 25 min 4 people Easy You'll need 60g Jacob's Bites Red Leicester, crushed 40g melted butter Thyme leaves Black pepper Method Crush the crackers coarsely in a bag with a rolling pin. The soft last handful is ideal for this. Mix with melted butter, thyme and pepper, and add no salt of your own. Scatter over a chicken traybake, a gratin or a baked pasta for the last fifteen minutes. Bake at 200°C until the top is browned and crisp. What you'll end up with: A crumb that brings its own savoury seasoning, so the dish underneath needs less. Nothing goes in the bin. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._