# Jacob's On the Go Fibre Boost Black Seed & Quinoa Crackers, 5 x 40g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £3.00 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/jacobs-on-the-go-fibre-boost-black-seed-and-quinoa-crackers-5-x-40g/` _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-on-the-go-fibre-boost-black-seed-and-quinoa-crackers-5-x-40g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Jacob's **Price:** £3.00 GBP **GTIN:** 5000168015279 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Jacob's On the Go 5 x Fibre Boost Black Seed & Quinoa Crackers is five individually sealed snack packs rather than one sleeve, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the seeded cracker that is still crisp at the fifth pack.Ingredients and dietary suitability: 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.A cracker's one real enemy is humidity, and a sleeve opened on Monday is a different product by Friday, so five sealed portions beat any tin. A lunchbox format rather than a cheeseboard one.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 seed question and what the name does not tell you are in the Q and A tab below. ## Description Jacob's On the Go 5 x Fibre Boost Black Seed & Quinoa Crackers is a box of five individually sealed snack packs rather than one sleeve of crackers. According to the published pack listing each pack is forty grams. That is the whole proposition: a portion of seeded crackers that has not been open in a cupboard for a fortnight before you eat it. For a cracker, individual sealing is worth more than it is for almost anything else on the shelf. A cracker's single failure mode is moisture, and a sleeve opened on Monday is a different product by Friday. Five sealed packs means the fifth one is as crisp as the first, which is why this format belongs in a lunchbox, a desk drawer or a bag rather than on a cheeseboard. It is a portion, not a course. The Taste Profile Seed and grain character: ●●●●○ (4/5) The point of this version over a plain snack cracker. Black seed and quinoa are both named on the pack, and a bake built around them reads nutty and savoury rather than neutral. Crispness: ●●●●● (5/5) The best-preserved crispness of any cracker format there is, and it comes from the packaging rather than the recipe. Saltiness: ●●●○○ (3/5) Present, because a cracker eaten on its own with nothing on it has to carry itself. Portability: ●●●●● (5/5) The reason to buy the format. A sealed pack survives a bag; a handful of crackers in a box does not. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.5 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Jacob's Jacob's is one of the familiar names on the British cracker shelf, best known for the cream cracker, and the On the Go range is the part of it built for eating away from a table. Fibre Boost is the brand's own name for this line, and we want to be clear about how we treat it. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying Format: five individually sealed snack packs. According to the published pack listing each is forty grams. Why sealed matters: a cracker's only real enemy is kitchen humidity, and five sealed portions beat any tin. The fifth pack is as crisp as the first. Seeded, not plain: this has a flavour of its own, so it works eaten on its own and it is a poor choice as a neutral base for something delicate. How Does Jacob's On the Go Fibre Boost Black Seed & Quinoa Crackers, 5 x 40g Compare to: Jacob's On the Go 5 x Fibre Boost Oats & Wholegrain Crackers, 46g: the same format, with a larger pack and an oat-led recipe instead of a seeded one. That one is the softer, rounder, more everyday flavour; this one is the savoury, nutty one. Jacob's Cream Cracker Multipack 8 Snack Packs, 185g: eight packs rather than five and a plain cream cracker rather than a seeded one. Buy that if you want a neutral cracker to eat with something; buy this if the cracker is the snack. Nairn's On the Go Fruit & Seed Oatcakes, 225g: an oat-based alternative in a similar spirit. Denser and sweeter-leaning, and a different eating experience altogether. Jacob's Choice Grain Multigrain Crackers, 200g: a single sleeve. The same sort of seeded savoury cracker in a format that goes soft once opened, which is exactly the problem the snack packs solve. Ideal Serving Conditions This is a portion rather than a course, and almost everything worth knowing about it follows from the fact that each pack is sealed until you open it. Away From the Table A bag or a drawer: the sealed pack is the protection. Do not decant the crackers into a tub for a packed lunch, which throws away the only advantage the format has. Eat the pack: once opened, a snack pack has no resealing worth the name. This is a portion designed to be finished. With cheese or hummus: a seeded cracker stands up to a strong dip better than a plain one, which is one of the few places the flavour is an advantage. On their own: the honest test of a snack cracker, and this one passes it because the seeds and the salt give it something to say. The Storage Rules Leave them sealed: the simplest storage advice on this shelf. An unopened snack pack is better protected than anything you can decant into. Cool and dry: the outer box in a cupboard, not the shelf above the kettle. Sealed is not the same as indestructible. Do not split a pack over two days: a half-eaten snack pack is soft by the next morning, and there is no way to close it properly. If one does soften: five minutes in a low oven at about 150C and a few minutes cooling on a rack brings the crispness back. Watch it, because seeds colour faster than dough. Getting It Right with a Hot Drink Pairing: a plain black tea without milk, which leaves the seed and grain notes clear. Also good: a black coffee at a desk, which is where most of these get eaten. Avoid: sweet and fruit infusions, which land on top of the salt and do the savoury notes no favours. Dunking: no. A thin seeded cracker gives way immediately and there is nothing in it a hot drink improves. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Fibre Boost is a product name: it is the brand's wording and we repeat it as a name rather than as a claim. Seeds and allergens: seeds are a common allergen group and sesame is a named allergen in the UK. They are our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description; we have held no tastings. ## Product Questions What is actually in the box?Five individually sealed snack packs rather than one sleeve of crackers. According to the published pack listing each pack is forty grams.Does Fibre Boost mean it is good for me?Fibre Boost is the brand's name for the line, and we repeat it as a name rather than as a claim. The current pack carries the panel.What is black seed?Black seed and quinoa are the words on the pack and that is all we repeat. If seeds matter to you for allergy reasons, the current pack is the only place that settles it.Why buy sealed packs rather than a sleeve?Because a cracker's one real failure mode is moisture, and a sleeve opened on Monday is a different product by Friday. Five sealed portions beat any tin: the fifth pack is as crisp as the first. That is the whole argument for the format.Can I put them in a lunchbox loose?You can, and you would be throwing away the only advantage the format has. Decanting a snack pack into a tub leaves you with the same soft crackers a sleeve would have given you. Put the sealed pack in the box.Can I save half a pack for tomorrow?Not really. A snack pack has no reseal worth the name, and a half-eaten one is soft by the next morning. It is a portion designed to be finished, which is the trade-off you accept for the freshness.What goes with them?A strong dip or a firm cheese. A seeded cracker stands up to hummus or a mature cheddar better than a plain one, which is one of the few places the flavour is an advantage. They also pass the honest test of a snack cracker, which is being worth eating with nothing on them at all.This or the Oats & Wholegrain version?Same format, larger pack on the oats version. This is the savoury, nutty, seed-led one; that is the softer, rounder, more everyday flavour. If the cracker is the snack, take this; if it is going under something, take that.One went soft. Can I fix it?Yes. Five minutes in a low oven at about 150C, then a few minutes cooling on a rack, brings the crispness back. Watch it more closely than you would a plain cracker, because seeds colour faster than dough does.Can I dunk them?No. A thin seeded cracker gives way immediately and there is nothing in it that a hot drink improves. A plain black tea without milk beside it leaves the seed and grain notes clear; a sweet or fruit infusion lands on top of the salt and spoils both. ## Ingredients & Nutrition ComponentProportionWhat it bringsFibre BoostA product name, not a measurementThe brand's wording for the line. We repeat it as a name and not as a claim. No fibre figure, no percentage and no nutrition figure of any kind appears here.Pack formatFive individually sealed snack packs; the published pack listing gives each as 40gThe packaging is the feature. A sealed pack keeps its crispness where an opened sleeve does not, which is why the fifth pack is as good as the first. Cracker count per pack is printed on the pack.Pack: Jacob's On the Go Fibre Boost Black Seed & Quinoa Crackers, 5 x 40g; five sealed snack packs of a seeded savoury cracker, GTIN 5000168015279. Keep them sealed until you eat them and store the outer box cool and dry rather than on the shelf above the kettle. Read the ingredient list, the seed varieties, the cracker count, the nutrition panel, the allergen advice, the gluten statement and the best-before date off the current UK pack.Characterising components shown.Sourcing & blend. Jacob's On the Go Fibre Boost Black Seed & Quinoa Crackers, 5 x 40g carries the Jacob's name, one of the familiar names on the British cracker shelf and best known for the cream cracker. The On the Go range is the part of that shelf built for eating away from a table, and the individual sealing rather than the recipe is what distinguishes it.What's in Jacob's On the Go Fibre Boost Black Seed & Quinoa Crackers, 5 x 40g: In: five sealed snack packs of a seeded savoury cracker, with the ingredient list printed on the pack. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Jacob's On the Go Fibre Boost Black Seed & Quinoa Crackers, 5 x 40g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why a sealed snack cracker tastes the way it does from the first bite to the last one in the pack.The outer layer is the bake and the seeds together, and on a thin savoury cracker they are hard to separate. Seeds sitting on and just under the surface take more heat than the dough around them, so the toasted note they give arrives first and it is nutty and faintly bitter at the edge. That is a real flavour rather than a decoration, and it is why a seeded cracker is worth eating with nothing on it where a plain one is not. It is also the most fragile part of the product. Toasted aromatics fade with time and with air, and on an ordinary cracker in an opened sleeve they are gone long before the texture is. The sealing is what protects them.The flavour spike is salt, and on a snack cracker it is doing a different job from the one it does on a board cracker. There is nothing going on top of this, so the salt has to carry the cracker on its own and it sits higher than it would on a table water round. Salt lifts and clears rather than coating, which is why a pack of these does not become tiring in the way a sweet biscuit does, and it is also the reason a sweet or fruit tea beside them is a poor idea: the sugar lands in exactly the place the salt has just cleared. The same salt is what lets a seeded cracker stand up to a strong dip instead of disappearing under it.The base structure is thin, dry and brittle, and the interesting engineering here is not in the cracker at all. It is in the packaging. A cracker has one genuine failure mode, which is taking water out of the air, and every other storage rule on this shelf is an attempt to slow that down. An individually sealed forty-gram pack does not slow it down, it stops it: the cracker inside is in the same condition on the day you open it as it was in the factory, which no tin can promise. That is the whole proposition of the format and it is worth more on a cracker than on almost any other snack. The trade-off is equally clear. Once a pack is open there is no reseal worth the name, so a half-eaten pack is soft by the next morning, and decanting one into a lunchbox tub throws the advantage away entirely.Getting it right in the cup. Treat this as a portion rather than a course. Put the sealed pack in the bag or the lunchbox, not a handful of crackers in a tub, and eat the pack rather than splitting it across two days. They are worth eating on their own, which is the honest test of a snack cracker, and they hold up beside hummus or a firm cheese where a plain cracker would vanish. If you are drinking something alongside, a plain black tea without milk leaves the seed and grain notes clear, and a black coffee at a desk is where most of these are actually eaten. Avoid sweet and fruit infusions. Do not dunk them.How water and temperature change it. Sealed, none of the usual rules apply, which is the point. Unsealed, all of them apply at once and faster than usual, because a thin seeded cracker has a great deal of surface and very little body. An opened pack left on a desk overnight will be noticeably softer in the morning, and in a steamy kitchen it takes hours rather than days. Heat is the other enemy and it works on the seeds rather than the texture: a box left somewhere warm loses the toasted note quietly while the crackers still snap perfectly well. Keep the outer box cool, dry and dark, and away from the shelf above the kettle, which is the most humid spot in the house. If a pack does soften, the fix is the same as for any uncoated cracker and it works well: five minutes in a low oven at about 150C, then a few minutes cooling on a rack rather than in a tin, drives the absorbed moisture back out and re-toasts the seeds at the same time. Watch it more closely than you would a plain cracker, because seeds colour faster than dough. ## Recipe Ideas These are sealed snack packs meant to be eaten away from a table, so the builds below are about the lunchbox, the desk and the few things worth putting on a seeded cracker. The cards are the packed lunch done properly, the desk drawer, a hummus plate, a quick cheese and tomato board, the oven rescue, and a crumb for a tray bake. Recipes, born here first The Packed Lunch, Done Properly How to get a crisp cracker at one o'clock instead of a soft one. 2 min One lunch Easy You'll need 1 sealed snack pack A wedge of firm cheese, wrapped separately Something fresh Method Put the sealed pack in the box as it is. Do not decant it into a tub. Keep the cheese wrapped separately rather than touching the crackers. Open the pack at the table and build each cracker as you eat it. Decanting throws away the only advantage the format has, which is the seal. What you'll end up with: A cracker at lunchtime in the condition it left the factory in. The Desk Drawer How to keep a box at work without ending up with five soft packs. 1 min Whole box Easy You'll need The outer box of five packs A black coffee Method Keep the box cool, dry and out of the sun. Sealed is not the same as indestructible. Take one pack at a time and finish it. A half-eaten pack is soft by morning. Avoid the shelf above a kettle, which is the most humid spot anywhere. Heat works on the seeds rather than the texture: a warm box loses the toasted note quietly. What you'll end up with: A fifth pack as good as the first, weeks later. Hummus and a Seeded Cracker How to use the one place a seeded cracker beats a plain one. 5 min Serves 1 Easy You'll need 1 snack pack of crackers Hummus or a thick bean dip Olive oil and black pepper Method Choose a thick dip rather than a loose one. A thin cracker has very little to give before it fails. Dip and eat rather than loading them up in advance. Finish the dip with oil and pepper, not the cracker, which already has salt and seeds of its own. A plain cracker disappears under a garlicky dip. This one does not, which is the point of the flavour. What you'll end up with: A five-minute lunch where both halves can still be tasted. Cheese, Tomato and Nothing Else How to build a plate from one snack pack without it going soft. 5 min Serves 1 Easy You'll need 1 snack pack of crackers A firm cheese, thinly sliced Cherry tomatoes, halved and drained Black pepper Method Lay the cheese on first. Fat is a barrier and slows the moisture reaching the cracker. Drain the tomatoes properly on kitchen paper before they go anywhere near it. Assemble one at a time as you eat, never a plateful in advance. The seeds and salt mean you need nothing else on top, and anything sweet fights them. What you'll end up with: A small savoury plate that is still crisp at the last cracker. The Oven Rescue How to save the pack you left open overnight. 10 min One pack Easy You'll need A softened pack of crackers An oven at 150C A cooling rack Method Lay them in a single layer on a baking tray. Bake five minutes at about 150C, watching them from three. Cool on a rack, not in a tin. Trapped steam goes straight back in. This re-toasts the seeds as well as drying the crumb, which is why they can come back better than they went in. What you'll end up with: A rescued pack rather than a binned one. A Seeded Crumb for Roast Vegetables How to use the crumbs at the bottom of the pack. 20 min Serves 2 Medium You'll need The broken crackers from a pack Olive oil Roasted vegetables Lemon zest Method Crush to a coarse crumb so the seeds stay whole. Toss with a little olive oil and the lemon zest. Scatter over roasted vegetables for the last eight minutes at 190C fan. Seeds brown faster than breadcrumbs, so watch it from five minutes. What you'll end up with: A nutty crunch on a tray of vegetables and nothing wasted. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._