# Jacobs Mediterranean Pinch of Salt Crackers Multipack, 5 Pack 190g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £2.20 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/jacobs-mediterranean-pinch-of-salt-crackers-multipack-5-pack-190g/` _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-mediterranean-pinch-of-salt-crackers-multipack-5-pack-190g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Jacob's **Price:** £2.20 GBP **GTIN:** 5000168032085 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Jacob's Mediterranean Pinch of Salt Crackers Multipack is five sealed 38g packs of lightly salted crackers, 190g in total, deliberately quiet so that whatever you put on top is the thing you taste.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat and barley (gluten), and it may contain egg, milk and sesame. 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.The sealed portions are the point: a thin dry cracker starts losing its snap the moment a pack is opened.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. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below. ## Description Jacob's Mediterranean Pinch of Salt Crackers Multipack is five sealed 38g packs of lightly salted crackers, 190g in total, and the two things worth knowing about it are both in the name. Pinch of salt says the seasoning is deliberately restrained. Multipack says the freshness problem has been solved by the wrapper rather than by you. A restrained cracker is a different product from a heavily seasoned one. Season a cracker hard and it becomes a finished snack that wants nothing on top. Season it lightly and it becomes a base: soft cheese, hummus, a slice of tomato with oil and pepper, all audible because the cracker is not shouting over them. The Taste Profile Restraint: ●●●●● (5/5) A pinch rather than a coating, which is what leaves room for a topping. Crisp Snap: ●●●●○ (4/5) Less surface fat than a seasoned cracker, so the break is sharper and the crumb drier. Baked Wheat: ●●●○○ (3/5) A light toasted sweetness under the salt, from a short bake. Salt: ●●○○○ (2/5) Deliberately low. For a salt hit, the TUC sandwich packs do that job and this does not. 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 one of the oldest names in British and Irish biscuit baking, and the multipack format is the more modern part of the story. Sealing crackers into small portions solves the single biggest problem savoury baking has, which is that a thin dry cracker starts losing its snap the moment the pack is opened. What the sealed portions buy you is the fifth portion being as good as the first. For a lunchbox or a desk drawer that is usually the right trade. The ingredient list, the allergen advice, any certification marks, what the Mediterranean description refers to and the country of origin must all be read off the current UK pack rather than taken from this page. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying Five portions of 38g: 190g in total. Built to carry a topping: the restrained seasoning is the point. Soft cheese, hummus or tomato and oil all stay audible on it in a way they do not on a heavily seasoned cracker. What it is not: not a snack cracker to be eaten as it comes, not a crispbread and not a claim about Mediterranean ingredients. It is a lightly salted base sold in sealed portions. How Does Jacobs Mediterranean Pinch of Salt Crackers Multipack, 5 Pack 190g Compare to: Jacob's TUC Cheese Sandwich Snack Crackers, 150g: Seasoned and filled, takes nothing on top. Different tools, and most kitchens want one of each. Ryvita Crispbread Sesame Crackers, 250g: Drier and harder, and it carries a wet topping better; this is lighter, snaps more cleanly and travels pre-portioned. Jacob's Original Cream Crackers, 200g: Plainer still, and it softens faster once opened, which is the whole argument for a multipack. Ideal Brewing Conditions A quiet cracker is the easy one to drink with, because it is not competing. That widens the field considerably compared with the seasoned packs in this range: teas that would be overrun by a salted snack cracker are perfectly audible beside this one, and the topping you choose matters more to the pairing than the cracker does. The Tea Break Standard strength is enough: an english breakfast brewed normally rather than long. There is little salt to cut through, so the usual reason for over-brewing does not apply here. Delicate teas survive: unusually for a savoury pack, a green tea or a lighter black holds its own against a plain cracker with soft cheese. Save it for a plain topping rather than a strong one. Match the tea to the topping: a strong cheese wants a strong cup; tomato and oil want something brisk; hummus is happy with almost anything. Milk optional, sugar no: sweetness against a savoury base is the one thing that consistently does not work, whatever is on top. The Lunch Serve Open the portion at the table: the whole value of the format is the seal. Opening it an hour early gives you the same soft cracker the big packs give you. Wet toppings go on last: a thin cracker under a wet topping is soft within minutes, so assemble as you eat rather than in advance. Two portions makes a light lunch: 76g of cracker with cheese or hummus and something fresh alongside is a proper plate rather than a snack. Soup works, alongside: keep them out of the bowl. These are too thin to hold up in liquid and are better eaten dry beside it. Getting It Right in the Cup The seal is the product: five sealed portions are the whole point of this pack. Use them one at a time and the advantage is real; open them all at once and it is gone. Room temperature: straight from a cupboard. Cold does not help a dry cracker and a fridge actively harms it, because the moisture is what takes the snap away. Dunking: possible in soup or tea for two or three seconds at most, but these are thin and there is no filling holding them together. Dry is better. Storage: cool, dry and away from strong smells. Unopened portions keep their character well past the point a large opened pack would have given up. Best with: a soft cheese, a spoon of hummus or a slice of tomato with oil and pepper, and a normally brewed mug of tea alongside. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat and barley (gluten), and it may contain egg, milk and sesame. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Nutrition: pinch of salt is a front-of-pack description of the seasoning level, not a nutrition figure, and the panel on the pack is the only reliable source for the number. On the name: Mediterranean is a range name on the front of the pack. ## Product Questions What does pinch of salt mean here?It is a front-of-pack description of the seasoning level, not a nutrition figure. The cracker is deliberately lightly salted so that whatever goes on top of it is still audible. If you want a salted snack cracker, the TUC packs in this range do that job instead. Why buy a multipack rather than one big pack?Because a thin dry cracker starts losing its snap the moment a pack is opened. Five sealed 38g portions means the fifth is as crisp as the first, and that is what you are buying. What should I put on them?Soft cheese, hummus, or a slice of tomato with oil and pepper. The restrained seasoning is what makes a topping work here, and it is the reason to choose this over a seasoned snack cracker. Can I make them up in advance?Not with a wet topping. A thin cracker under cheese or tomato goes soft within minutes, so assemble as you eat. A dry topping is more forgiving. Which tea goes with it?Almost any, which is unusual for a savoury pack. There is little salt to cut through, so a normally brewed english breakfast is plenty and even a green tea holds its own against a plain cracker with soft cheese. Match the tea to the topping rather than to the cracker. Is it a low-salt product?Pinch of salt describes the seasoning level on the front of the pack and is not a nutrition statement. Is it made in the Mediterranean?Mediterranean is a range name on the front of the pack. Country of origin is printed on the current UK pack. Can I dunk it?Two or three seconds at most and we would not bother. These are thin and there is no filling holding them together, so they are better eaten dry beside a cup or a bowl than in one. Do you publish the nutrition figures?No. The panel on the pack is the only reliable source. ## Ingredients & Nutrition Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat and barley (gluten), and it may contain egg, milk and sesame. 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), Vegetable Oil (Palm), Barley and Barley Malt Extract, Glucose Syrup, Salt, Raising Agents (Ammonium Bicarbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Malted Barley Flour, Emulsifier (E472e), Wheat Starch. May also contain Sesame Seeds, Milk, Egg.Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsLightly salted crackerthe baseA thin baked cracker with restrained seasoning.Sealed 38g portion5 per multipackThe freshness mechanism. Five separate seals mean the crackers only meet the air when you open that portion, which is what a thin dry cracker needs most.Mediterranean range nameprinted on the packA front-of-pack name. What it refers to is printed on the current UK pack and we do not guess at it, so nothing here should be read as an origin or ingredient claim.Pack: Best before the date printed on the pack, with unopened portions holding their character far longer than an opened large pack would.Pinch of salt is a description of seasoning level, not a nutrition claim.Sourcing & blend. Jacobs Mediterranean Pinch of Salt Crackers Multipack, 5 Pack 190g comes from a long-established British and Irish biscuit name and answers the one real weakness of savoury baking: a thin dry cracker starts losing its snap the moment the pack is opened. What five sealed portions buy is the fifth portion being as good as the first. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe.What is in Jacobs Mediterranean Pinch of Salt Crackers Multipack, 5 Pack 190g, and what is not:In: five sealed 38g packs of lightly salted crackers, 190g to the outer multipack.Deliberately quiet: the restrained seasoning is a design choice rather than a shortfall. It is what leaves room for soft cheese, hummus or tomato and oil to be heard. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Jacobs Mediterranean Pinch of Salt Crackers Multipack, 5 Pack 190g is built in three layers, and with a deliberately quiet cracker the interesting part is what each layer leaves room for rather than what it fills.The outer layer is aromatic and very nearly silent. A thin, fast-baked cracker develops only a short run of browning reactions, so the toasted note is light rather than deep, and with restrained seasoning there is no salt-and-fat aroma sitting on top of it to carry further. An opened portion smells faintly of baked wheat and little else. That silence is the product working as intended. A base is supposed to be a background, and a cracker that announced itself across a kitchen would be competing with the cheese you are about to put on it. The practical consequence is the same one every dry cracker has: aroma will not tell you whether the pack is fresh, so the seal has to do that job instead, which is exactly what the multipack format is for.The flavour spike is restraint doing something useful. Salt is there and lands first, as it always does, because it dissolves off the surface on contact, but it lands as a pinch rather than a hit and then steps out of the way. Behind it is a light baked-wheat sweetness, the residue of the browning that happened during a short bake. That is the whole mid palate, and it is deliberately incomplete. Put soft cheese on it and the cheese fills the gap; put tomato and olive oil on it and the acid and the fat fill the gap instead. Eaten bare, it is honestly a little plain, and anybody expecting the seasoning level of a snack cracker will be disappointed. Eaten as a base, it is doing precisely what a base should.The base structure is short, dry and clean. That is what makes this the easiest cracker in the range to drink with and the easiest to build on. The structural half of the finish is the snap, which is sharper here than in the filled packs: a lightly seasoned cracker has a drier surface and breaks more cleanly, with less crumb. It is also the quality the sealed portion exists to protect, and the reason opening all five at once wastes what you paid for.Getting it right in the cup. Because the cracker is quiet, the drink has an unusually wide range. An english breakfast brewed normally rather than long is plenty, since there is little salt to cut through and the usual reason for over-brewing does not apply. Delicate teas survive here in a way they do not beside a seasoned snack cracker: a green tea or a lighter black holds its own against a plain cracker with soft cheese, which makes this the one savoury pack on our shelf you can put next to the delicate end of the catalogue. The better rule is to match the tea to the topping rather than to the cracker. A strong cheese wants a strong cup, tomato and oil want something brisk, hummus is happy with almost anything. Milk is optional and sugar is not: sweetness against a savoury base is the one combination that consistently fails whatever is on top. Assemble wet toppings as you eat, because a thin cracker under cheese or tomato is soft within minutes.How water and temperature change it. The seal is the whole storage story. An unopened 38g portion holds its snap for as long as the date on the pack allows, because the crackers have never met the air; an opened portion behaves like any thin dry cracker and starts taking moisture out of the room immediately. Humidity, not heat, is what takes a cracker apart, so a fridge is the worst place for these and a cool dry cupboard is the best. There is no coating to bloom and no filling to stiffen, so warmth is a much smaller problem here than it is for the chocolate biscuits on the same shelf. On the drink side, hard water flattens the astringency of a black tea, which matters less here than with a salty pack because there is less salt to cut, though it is still worth a slightly longer brew in a hard-water area if the topping is a strong cheese. ## Recipe Ideas Five ideas cover the lunchbox it was designed for, a tomato build, a soft cheese plate, a soup serve and a savoury base for a crowd. Recipes, born here first The Lunchbox Portion How to make The Lunchbox Portion with Jacob's Mediterranean Pinch of Salt Crackers Multipack. 3 min 1 portion Easy You'll need 1 sealed 38g pack, unopened A small tub of soft cheese or hummus Cucumber or pepper sticks An apple Method Pack the 38g portion sealed. This is the entire point of the format. Keep the topping in a separate tub. A cracker sitting under soft cheese since breakfast is soft by lunchtime. Open and assemble at the table, one cracker at a time. Leave the other four portions sealed in the cupboard, where they will be as good next week as today. What you'll end up with: A savoury base that actually arrives crisp, which is more than a lunchbox usually manages. Tomato, Oil And Pepper How to make Tomato, Oil And Pepper with Jacob's Mediterranean Pinch of Salt Crackers Multipack. 5 min 1 portion Easy You'll need 1 sealed 38g pack 1 ripe tomato, sliced thin Good olive oil Black pepper Fresh basil, optional Method Slice the tomato thinly and let it sit on kitchen paper for a minute. Excess water is what turns a cracker soft. Assemble one cracker at a time rather than the whole portion at once. Dress with oil and pepper only. The cracker has brought the salt, restrained as it is, and more salt buries the tomato. Eat immediately, with a brisk mug of tea alongside. What you'll end up with: The build the restrained seasoning exists for, and the clearest demonstration of why a quiet cracker is worth having. The Soft Cheese Plate How to make The Soft Cheese Plate with Jacob's Mediterranean Pinch of Salt Crackers Multipack. 8 min 2 people Easy You'll need 2 sealed 38g packs Soft cheese Grapes Cornichons A pot of english breakfast tea Method Open both portions at the table rather than in the kitchen. Set the cheese out at room temperature twenty minutes beforehand; cold cheese on a cracker is a waste of both. Add grapes and cornichons for sweetness and sharpness on the same plate. Pour tea brewed normally rather than long. There is little salt here, so there is no need to over-brew. What you'll end up with: Two portions and twenty minutes of forethought gives you a proper light supper for two. Soup, Alongside How to make Soup, Alongside with Jacob's Mediterranean Pinch of Salt Crackers Multipack. 5 min 1 bowl Easy You'll need 1 sealed 38g pack 1 bowl of soup Black pepper No extra salt Method Keep them out of the bowl. These are thin and there is no filling to hold them together, so they collapse rather than soften usefully. Eat them dry alongside instead, alternating with spoonfuls. Season the soup with pepper rather than more salt; the crackers are quiet but not saltless. Open a second portion if one is not enough, rather than opening the whole multipack. What you'll end up with: The snap survives, which is the only reason to choose a cracker over a crouton. A Base For A Crowd How to make A Base For A Crowd with Jacob's Mediterranean Pinch of Salt Crackers Multipack. 15 min 4 to 6 people Easy You'll need 3 to 5 sealed 38g packs Hummus Grated carrot and herbs Halved cherry tomatoes Olive oil Method Open the portions as people arrive rather than all at once at the start, which keeps the last ones crisp. Spoon hummus into a bowl rather than spreading it on in advance. Guests assembling their own is the only way a thin cracker stays crisp. Top the hummus with grated carrot, herbs and a little oil so the bowl carries the flavour instead of the cracker. Keep any unopened portions back for the week; the format is designed to be used a portion at a time. What you'll end up with: A savoury table where the last cracker is as good as the first. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._