{ "id": 1074201, "title": "Kallo Protein Packed Lentil Cakes, 100g", "slug": "kallo-protein-packed-lentil-cakes-100g", "type": "product", "url": "https://teas.co.uk/product/kallo-protein-packed-lentil-cakes-100g/", "modified": "2026-09-25T23:29:54+01:00", "excerpt": "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.Ingredients and dietary suitability: 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.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.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.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.", "content_text": "Kallo Protein Packed Lentil Cakes is a 100g pack of puffed cakes made with lentils rather than with rice alone, and that swap is the entire point of the product. A rice cake is deliberately blank: it is a carrier, and it tastes of almost nothing so that whatever goes on it can be heard. A lentil cake is not blank. It has a flavour of its own, and that changes what it is good for.\n\nPulses 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.\n\n The Taste Profile\n\nLentil character: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Earthy and faintly nutty, with the savoury depth pulses have and cereals do not. This is the reason to buy it rather than a rice cake.\nSavoury depth: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Present without being strong. It is a light snack rather than a seasoned one, and it stays on the right side of bland.\nAiry crispness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) Puffed rather than baked, so it shatters and collapses to almost nothing in the mouth. That is the format's defining texture.\nCarrying ability: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Fine for a firm topping and hopeless with a wet one, because a puffed cake is porous all the way through.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.5 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk\n\n The Story Behind Kallo\n\nKallo 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.\n\nA 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.\n\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.\n\n What You Are Actually Buying\n\nWeight: one hundred grams.\nA pulse cake, not a rice cake: it tastes of something, which makes it a better plain snack and a worse neutral base.\nPuffed, not baked: heated under pressure until the moisture inside flashes to steam, which is why it is so light and so fragile.\n\nWhat it is not: not a cheeseboard cracker and not a volume snack. It is a small pack of a specialist line.\n\n How Does Kallo Protein Packed Lentil Cakes, 100g Compare to:\n\nSnack A Jacks Jumbo Salt & Vinegar Rice Cakes Sharing Crisps, 117g: the same puffing process on rice, seasoned hard. That one relies entirely on its seasoning; this one has a base worth tasting, and is considerably plainer as a result.\nThe Snack Organisation Crackers Lightly Salted, 100g: the same pack size in a baked cracker rather than a puffed cake. Denser, sturdier, better under a topping, and without the shatter.\nRyvita Thins Multi Seed Flatbread Crackers, 125g: a baked seeded thin, which is the nearest thing to this in flavour terms. Seeds bring oil and depth where lentils bring earthiness, and a baked thin holds a topping where a puffed cake does not.\n\n Ideal Serving Conditions\n\nA 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.\n\nThe Serving Rules\n\nEat 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.\nFirm toppings only: hummus that holds its shape, a slice of cheese, nut butter. Anything runny travels straight through.\nTop at the moment of eating: not ten minutes before, and certainly not in a lunchbox.\nHandle them gently: a puffed cake breaks under very little pressure, and a stacked pack breaks under its own weight.\n\nThe Storage Rules\n\nSeal it the moment you open it: a fold is not a seal, and with a puffed cake the difference shows the same day.\nA rigid container beats a clip: it deals with breakage as well as moisture, which a clip does not.\nAway from the kettle: the air above a kettle is the most humid in the house.\nThe 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.\n\n Getting It Right with a Hot Drink\n\nBest with: a plain black tea or a black coffee, neither of which will bury a light savoury cake.\nAlso good with: a green tea, which is one of the rare pairings where a delicate tea and a savoury snack meet on equal terms.\nAvoid: sweet and fruit teas, which make an earthy pulse taste flat and slightly odd.\nDunking: no, and not even briefly. A puffed cake disintegrates on contact.\n\n Safety And Purity\n\nIngredients and dietary suitability: 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.\n\nProtein is a product name here, not a figure: read the number off the current pack.\n\nPulses and allergens: lupin is a named allergen and a pulse, and soya is both a named allergen and common in savoury snacks. It is simply a reason to read a pulse-based product carefully rather than assuming.\n\nDo not read the base as a free-from claim: a cake made with lentils and rice is not automatically free from anything, because a finished product's status depends on the whole recipe and on the site it is made in.\n\nNo health claim: pulses attract a great deal of loose talk.", "purchase_intent_url": "https://teas.co.uk/buy/kallo-protein-packed-lentil-cakes-100g/", "purchase_intent_policy": "Human-confirmed purchase intent only. Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe, or open autonomously.", "payment_methods": [ "apple_pay", "google_pay", "paypal", "klarna", "card" ], "free_uk_delivery_over_gbp": 35, "product": { "sku": "kallo-protein-packed-lentil-cakes-100g", "price_gbp": 3, "regular_price": 3.75, "servings": null, "serving_unit": null, "price_per_cup": null, "price_per_cup_gbp": null, "price_per_cup_pence": null, "caffeine": null, "brew_temp": null, "brew_time": null, "gtin": "5013665114017", "tea_family": "biscuits", "on_sale": true, "stock_status": "instock", "brand": [ "Kallo" ], "categories": [ "Crackers & Crispbreads", "Biscuits" ], "urls": { "canonical": "https://teas.co.uk/product/kallo-protein-packed-lentil-cakes-100g/", "purchase_intent": "https://teas.co.uk/buy/kallo-protein-packed-lentil-cakes-100g/", "markdown": "https://teas.co.uk/product/kallo-protein-packed-lentil-cakes-100g.md" }, "tabs": [ { "title": "Product Questions", "content": "How is a lentil cake different from a rice cake?It tastes of something, and that is the whole point. A rice cake is deliberately blank, a carrier built so that whatever goes on it can be heard. Pulses carry savoury, earthy compounds that cereals lack and they brown differently under heat, so a puffed pulse cake comes out nutty and faintly beany where a rice cake comes out with almost nothing. How much protein is in it?Read it off the current pack. What does puffed mean?Heated under pressure until the moisture inside the grains and pulses flashes to steam, then released so the starch expands and sets in an instant. What can I put on them?Firm things. Hummus that holds its shape, a slice of cheese, a nut butter. Anything runny travels straight through a porous cake, and it happens in seconds rather than minutes, so top them at the moment of eating rather than in advance. Should I eat one plain?Yes, and it is unusual advice for this format. With a rice cake there is nothing to learn from tasting it plain. Here there is a genuine flavour, earthy and faintly nutty, and knowing it tells you what will sit well on top. Why does it go soft so quickly?Porosity. A puffed cake is mostly air held in a fragile lattice with a very large internal surface, so it exchanges moisture with the room far faster than a baked biscuit. Hours rather than days once the pack is open, which is why sealing it properly matters more than it would for a cracker. Can I crisp them up again?Yes, and better than you can with a coated cake, because there is nothing on the surface to melt. Three or four minutes at about 120C and a few minutes cooling flat restores the shatter. There is very little mass here, so it happens fast and it is easy to overdo. What should I drink with it?A plain black tea or a black coffee, neither of which will bury a light savoury cake. Green tea is the interesting one, because a delicate tea and a light savoury snack meet on equal terms here rather than one flattening the other. Avoid sweet and fruit teas, which make an earthy pulse taste flat. How should I store it?Seal it the moment you open it, and use a rigid container rather than a clip if you have one, because that protects against breakage as well as moisture. Keep it away from the kettle, where the air is the most humid in the house." }, { "title": "Ingredients & Nutrition", "content": "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.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy373 kcalFat1.9gof which saturates0.4gCarbohydrate59.0gof which sugars1.4gFibre6.9gProtein26.0gSalt0gIngredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsPuffed cake basethe bulk of the packNot 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:\nIn: puffed cakes made with lentils, in a 100g pack, the full recipe printed on the box.\nA base with a flavour of its own: which makes it a better plain snack and a worse neutral carrier than a rice cake.\n\nNo free-from claim: a finished product's status depends on the whole recipe and the site, not on the raw material." }, { "title": "Flavour Science", "content": "The outer layer is the puffing, and it is a process worth distinguishing sharply from baking. Grains and pulses are heated inside a sealed mould until the water held inside each one turns to steam; when the mould opens, the pressure drop expands the starch and it sets almost instantly. There is no dough, no kneading and almost no added fat, and because the whole event is over in a fraction of a second there is very little of the slow browning that gives a baked biscuit its toasted character. What survives is whatever the raw material itself brought to the mould, which is precisely why the choice of raw material matters more here than in any baked product.The flavour spike is the lentil, and this is where the product separates from every rice cake on the shelf. Cereals are starchy and mild; pulses carry a different set of compounds, more savoury and more earthy, with a nuttiness that comes through even the brief violence of puffing. The result is a cake that tastes faintly of something rather than of nothing at all, and the consequence is a trade-off rather than an improvement. As a plain snack it is far more interesting than a rice cake. As a neutral carrier it is worse, because anything delicate placed on top now has to compete with an earthy base instead of sitting on a blank one. Which of those you want decides whether this pack is right for you.The base structure is the standard puffed-cake lattice, mostly air held in a fragile expanded starch network, and it behaves exactly as that description suggests. It shatters rather than snapping, collapses to almost nothing in the mouth, breaks under very little pressure and cannot hold a wet topping for more than a few seconds, because the porosity that makes it light also makes it absorbent all the way through. The same porosity governs its life in the cupboard: with an enormous internal surface and no fat to waterproof it, ambient moisture reaches the whole structure quickly, and an opened pack loses its shatter in hours rather than days. The one mercy is that there is nothing on the surface to melt, which makes the recovery straightforward.Getting it right in the cup. Take a plain black tea or a black coffee. Neither will bury a light savoury cake, and both clear the palate between mouthfuls. Green tea is the genuinely interesting pairing here: it usually loses badly against savoury food, but a lightly earthy pulse cake is gentle enough that the two meet on equal terms, and the vegetal character in the tea sits comfortably beside the earthiness of the lentil. Sweet and fruit teas are the ones to avoid, because sweetness makes an earthy pulse taste flat and slightly odd rather than balancing it. Do not dunk, and this is not a matter of timing: a porous puffed cake takes up liquid on contact and falls apart rather than softening. Eat one plain before you decide what to put on it, which is advice worth giving here and nowhere else in this format.How water and temperature change it. Humidity does almost all of the work, and it does it fast. There is no fat to waterproof the lattice, no sugar to bind moisture in place, and far more internal surface than any dense biscuit, so room air reaches the whole structure within hours. A pack left folded rather than sealed will be noticeably soft the same day, and a lunchbox is the worst environment of all, since a cut apple or a wet sandwich will donate moisture across the box. Seal it properly, and use a rigid container rather than a clip if you have one, because breakage is the other thing a puffed cake suffers from and a clip does nothing about it. Recovery is straightforward: three or four minutes in a low oven at about 120C drives the absorbed water out and the shatter comes back, and because there is nothing coated on the surface, nothing melts or smears. There is very little mass here, so it happens quickly and it is easy to overdo; cool them flat and eat them the same day." }, { "title": "Recipe Ideas", "content": "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.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n Eat One Plain First\n \n Advice worth giving here and nowhere else in this format.\n \n 1 min\n Serves 1\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n One lentil cake\n A plain black tea, or a green tea\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Eat one with nothing on it before you plan anything else.\n Notice the earthiness and the faint nuttiness, which a rice cake does not have.\n That flavour is what decides which toppings will work and which will end up arguing with the base.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A clear sense of whether you wanted a carrier or a snack.\n\n \n The Firm Topping Lunch\n \n Everything wet goes straight through, so pick things that hold their shape.\n \n 5 min\n Serves 1\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 lentil cakes\n Thick hummus, or a nut butter\n Sliced radish, or a firm cheese\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Choose a topping that holds its shape on a spoon. Runny anything is wasted here.\n Top at the moment of eating, never in advance and never in a lunchbox.\n An earthy base likes earthy toppings: chickpeas, nut butter, mushrooms, a firm cheese.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A lunch that is still crisp when it reaches your mouth.\n\n \n Seal It, and Use a Box\n \n A clip solves one of this pack's two problems. A box solves both.\n \n 2 min\n Whole pack\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n The opened pack\n A rigid airtight container\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Transfer the cakes to a rigid box the moment you open the pack.\n Keep it cool, dry and away from the kettle.\n Moisture is one problem and breakage is the other. A clip only deals with the first.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Whole cakes that still shatter on day three.\n\n \n Beside a Bowl of Soup\n \n Where an earthy base is an advantage rather than an obstacle.\n \n 5 min\n Serves 2\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 4 lentil cakes\n A lentil, tomato or vegetable soup\n Salted butter\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Butter lightly and serve beside the bowl, never crumbled in.\n Match the soup to the base: an earthy cake suits an earthy soup.\n Crumbled in, they turn to nothing within seconds. This is a porous cake, not a crouton.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A lighter side than bread, and one that tastes of the same family as the soup.\n\n \n The Quick Oven Refresh\n \n Easier here than on any coated cake, because nothing melts.\n \n 8 min\n Whole pack\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n Softened lentil cakes\n An oven at 120C\n A flat tray\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Lay them flat in a single layer.\n Heat three or four minutes only. There is very little mass here and it is easy to overdo.\n Cool flat, then eat them the same day.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The shatter back, with nothing smeared or melted." } ] }, "contentSignals": "ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes", "links": { "apiCatalog": "https://teas.co.uk/.well-known/api-catalog", "llmsTxt": "https://teas.co.uk/llms.txt", "mcpCard": "https://teas.co.uk/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json", "primaryAgenticRouteAuthority": "https://teas.co.uk/.well-known/teas-primary-agentic-route-authority.json" } }