Kallo Protein Packed Lentil Cakes, 100g
If rice cakes have always struck you as a waste of a plate, this is the answer to them. The lentil brings an earthy, faintly nutty savouriness that a puffed grain never has, and it eats happily with nothing on it at all. Nut butter is the pairing that sounds wrong and is not: earthy on earthy, with enough body to stay put. Keep anything you add firm - a sliced hard cheese rather than a soft one - because a puffed cake is porous the whole way through. Lentils are the base rather than a garnish, which matters to anyone who avoids pulses.
Kallo Protein Packed Lentil Cakes, in brief.
Kallo Protein Packed Lentil Cakes is a 100g pack of puffed cakes made with lentils rather than rice alone, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the puffed cake that actually tastes of something.
A rice cake is deliberately blank so that whatever goes on it can be heard; a pulse carries savoury, earthy compounds cereals lack, so this one is a better plain snack and a worse neutral base. Puffed rather than baked, so it shatters, and it softens within hours of opening.
Pulses behave differently from cereals under heat and pressure. They carry more of the savoury, earthy compounds that grains lack, and they brown differently, so a puffed pulse cake comes out with a nutty, faintly beany depth where a puffed rice cake comes out with almost nothing at all. Whether that is an improvement depends entirely on what you want the cake to do.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We dispatch same day on orders placed before 2pm Monday to Friday.
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The Story Behind Kallo
Kallo is best known in Britain for rice cakes and for stock cubes, which is an odd pairing until you notice what they have in common: both are things you buy to build something else on. A lentil cake is a step away from that, because it is not neutral.
A word about the name. Protein is on the front of this pack because that is what the product is called, and a name is not a figure. If the number is why you are buying it, read it off the current pack. What we will say, because it is category fact rather than a claim about this product, is that pulses are a different raw material from cereals, which is why a manufacturer would use them in the first place.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Weight: one hundred grams.
- A pulse cake, not a rice cake: it tastes of something, which makes it a better plain snack and a worse neutral base.
- Puffed, not baked: heated under pressure until the moisture inside flashes to steam, which is why it is so light and so fragile.
- What it is not: not a cheeseboard cracker and not a volume snack. It is a small pack of a specialist line.
Ideal Serving Conditions
A puffed cake is mostly air held in a fragile lattice with a very large internal surface, which means it takes up kitchen moisture within hours rather than days once the pack is open. The one advantage this pack has over a coated cake is that there is nothing on it to melt, so the oven refresh works cleanly.
The Serving Rules
- Eat them plain, first: unusual advice for a cake of this kind, but here there is something to taste. It will tell you what to put on them.
- Firm toppings only: hummus that holds its shape, a slice of cheese, nut butter. Anything runny travels straight through.
- Top at the moment of eating: not ten minutes before, and certainly not in a lunchbox.
- Handle them gently: a puffed cake breaks under very little pressure, and a stacked pack breaks under its own weight.
The Storage Rules
- Seal it the moment you open it: a fold is not a seal, and with a puffed cake the difference shows the same day.
- A rigid container beats a clip: it deals with breakage as well as moisture, which a clip does not.
- Away from the kettle: the air above a kettle is the most humid in the house.
- The oven refresh works well here: three or four minutes at about 120C and a few minutes cooling flat restores the shatter. There is very little mass to heat, so it happens fast, and nothing on the surface to melt.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Best with: a plain black tea or a black coffee, neither of which will bury a light savoury cake.
- Also good with: a green tea, which is one of the rare pairings where a delicate tea and a savoury snack meet on equal terms.
- Avoid: sweet and fruit teas, which make an earthy pulse taste flat and slightly odd.
- Dunking: no, and not even briefly. A puffed cake disintegrates on contact.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Kallo Protein Packed Lentil Cakes, 100g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Kallo
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
This is a puffed pulse cake with a flavour of its own, so the builds below use that flavour rather than trying to cover it. The cards are the plain taste, a firm-topping lunch, the seal-and-store rule, a soup side and the oven refresh.
Made with this tea
Eat One Plain First
Advice worth giving here and nowhere else in this format.
- One lentil cake
- A plain black tea, or a green tea
- Eat one with nothing on it before you plan anything else.
- Notice the earthiness and the faint nuttiness, which a rice cake does not have.
- That flavour is what decides which toppings will work and which will end up arguing with the base.
What you'll end up with: A clear sense of whether you wanted a carrier or a snack.
The Firm Topping Lunch
Everything wet goes straight through, so pick things that hold their shape.
- 3 lentil cakes
- Thick hummus, or a nut butter
- Sliced radish, or a firm cheese
- Choose a topping that holds its shape on a spoon. Runny anything is wasted here.
- Top at the moment of eating, never in advance and never in a lunchbox.
- An earthy base likes earthy toppings: chickpeas, nut butter, mushrooms, a firm cheese.
What you'll end up with: A lunch that is still crisp when it reaches your mouth.
Seal It, and Use a Box
A clip solves one of this pack's two problems. A box solves both.
- The opened pack
- A rigid airtight container
- Transfer the cakes to a rigid box the moment you open the pack.
- Keep it cool, dry and away from the kettle.
- Moisture is one problem and breakage is the other. A clip only deals with the first.
What you'll end up with: Whole cakes that still shatter on day three.
Beside a Bowl of Soup
Where an earthy base is an advantage rather than an obstacle.
- 4 lentil cakes
- A lentil, tomato or vegetable soup
- Salted butter
- Butter lightly and serve beside the bowl, never crumbled in.
- Match the soup to the base: an earthy cake suits an earthy soup.
- Crumbled in, they turn to nothing within seconds. This is a porous cake, not a crouton.
What you'll end up with: A lighter side than bread, and one that tastes of the same family as the soup.
The Quick Oven Refresh
Easier here than on any coated cake, because nothing melts.
- Softened lentil cakes
- An oven at 120C
- A flat tray
- Lay them flat in a single layer.
- Heat three or four minutes only. There is very little mass here and it is easy to overdo.
- Cool flat, then eat them the same day.
What you'll end up with: The shatter back, with nothing smeared or melted.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 373 kcal |
| Fat | 1.9g |
| of which saturates | 0.4g |
| Carbohydrate | 59.0g |
| of which sugars | 1.4g |
| Fibre | 6.9g |
| Protein | 26.0g |
| Salt | 0g |
Ingredients and allergens. The published ingredient list for this product names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this product: Lentil Flour (85%), Corn Flour, Buckwheat.
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Puffed cake base | the bulk of the pack | Not baked. Heated under pressure until the moisture inside flashes to steam, setting the structure in an instant, which is why it is so light and so fragile. |
Pack: Kallo Protein Packed Lentil Cakes, 100g; puffed cakes made with lentils. Seal it the moment it is opened, preferably in a rigid container, and keep it cool and dry, because a puffed cake loses its shatter in hours. Read the ingredient list, the nutrition panel, the allergen advice, the cake count and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
Characterising components shown. Protein appears on this page only as part of the product's own name and is never treated as a figure. The sensory placements describe how a puffed pulse cake behaves rather than a measured analysis, and they are our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description; we have held no tastings and hold no brand specification sheets.
Sourcing & blend. Kallo Protein Packed Lentil Cakes, 100g comes from a house best known in Britain for rice cakes and stock cubes, which is an odd pairing until you notice that both are things you buy to build something else on. A lentil cake is a step away from that, because a pulse is not neutral the way a cereal is.
What's in Kallo Protein Packed Lentil Cakes, 100g, and what isn't:
- In: puffed cakes made with lentils, in a 100g pack, the full recipe printed on the box.
- A base with a flavour of its own: which makes it a better plain snack and a worse neutral carrier than a rice cake.
- No free-from claim: a finished product's status depends on the whole recipe and the site, not on the raw material.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Kallo Protein Packed Lentil Cakes, 100g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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