# Snack A Jacks Jumbo Salt & Vinegar Rice Cakes Sharing Crisps, 117g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £3.40 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/snack-a-jacks-jumbo-salt-and-vinegar-rice-cakes-sharing-crisps-117g/` _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/snack-a-jacks-jumbo-salt-and-vinegar-rice-cakes-sharing-crisps-117g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Snack A Jacks **Price:** £3.40 GBP **GTIN:** 5000328024240 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Snack A Jacks Jumbo Salt & Vinegar Rice Cakes Sharing Crisps is the large-format savoury rice cake in a 117g sharing bag, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the light, loud, surface-seasoned alternative to a dense savoury snack.Ingredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this barcode 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.Puffed rice is mostly air in a fragile lattice, so the vinegar arrives immediately and then leaves nothing behind. Nothing goes on top: a dip goes straight through it. Clip the bag, because a light lattice softens faster than any cracker.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. ## Description Snack A Jacks Jumbo Salt & Vinegar Rice Cakes Sharing Crisps is the large-format rice cake with a salt and vinegar seasoning, sold as a sharing bag rather than a single-serve one. That is worth knowing before you choose, and it comes down to pack size rather than anything about the product. A jumbo rice cake is a genuinely different object from a cracker and it behaves differently in every way that matters. Puffed rice is mostly air held in a fragile lattice, so the eating is loud, light and over quickly, and the seasoning sits on the surface rather than being carried in a dough. The practical result is that a rice cake delivers its flavour immediately and completely, then leaves nothing behind. That is exactly what a sharing bag wants, and exactly why these are a snack rather than a base for anything. The Taste Profile Vinegar sharpness: ●●●●○ (4/5) Bright and immediate off a surface seasoning, with the acidity arriving before the salt rather than behind it. Saltiness: ●●●●○ (4/5) Pitched for a sharing bag, which is to say pitched to make the next one seem reasonable. Lightness: ●●●●● (5/5) The defining property. Mostly air in a fragile lattice, which is why a jumbo one weighs almost nothing. Staying power: ●●○○○ (2/5) Very little. The flavour arrives all at once and leaves nothing behind, which is the trade-off for the lightness. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.4 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Snack A Jacks Snack A Jacks is a rice cake brand that sits in the crisps and snacking aisle rather than the cracker one, and the jumbo sharing bags are the big-format end of it. No ingredient list, no nutrition panel, no allergen statement and no count, so none of those appears here and the current pack carries all of it. Salt and vinegar is the pack's own description of the seasoning and it is all we repeat. Rice cakes attract a great deal of loose talk in that direction and none of it appears on this page. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying The per-gram position: the dearest of the three sharing bags we list from this brand, because it is the smallest. The caramel and chocolate chip bags both work out lower. Jumbo means the cake: large rounds rather than the small ones, so a bag of this weight holds fewer pieces than the number suggests. A light product in a large format looks like a lot of bag for the weight, and it is. How Does Snack A Jacks Jumbo Salt & Vinegar Rice Cakes Sharing Crisps, 117g Compare to: Jacob's Mini Cheddars Original Baked Snacks: the other sharing-bowl savoury in this range and the structural opposite. Dense and hard with the flavour worked through the dough, where this is light and airy with the flavour on the surface. Ideal Serving Conditions A large light product in a sealed bag has one enemy and it is the same one every time: air, once the bag is open. Everything below is about that or about the fragility of the lattice. The Bowl Serve from the bag or a wide bowl: a jumbo rice cake breaks if it is packed in tightly, and broken ones are harder to eat from a bowl. Nothing on top: a rice cake will not carry a topping. The lattice has no structure to speak of and a dip goes straight through it. Beside a cold drink: a sharp surface seasoning and a hot drink are a poor combination, and these belong on a coffee table rather than a tea tray. Put them out at the last minute: a light lattice goes soft faster than any cracker, and a bowl left standing is a bowl of disappointment within the hour. The Storage Rules Clip the bag properly: a fold is not enough, and there is no outer box here to do anything. Airtight if it is going to sit: into a tub, gently, without pressing them down. Away from the kettle: the air above a kettle is the most humid in the house and a rice cake collapses in it faster than almost anything else on this shelf. The oven trick works, carefully: five minutes in a low oven at about 150C and a few minutes cooling on a rack brings the crunch back, but a surface seasoning scorches, so watch them from the second minute. Getting It Right with a Hot Drink Pairing: honestly, something cold. If you want a hot drink, a plain black tea without milk is the one that copes with vinegar. Also possible: a black coffee, though the acidity in the coffee and the acidity in the seasoning do not flatter each other. Avoid: anything sweet or fruity, and anything with milk in it. Vinegar and milk is not a pairing anyone needs to test twice. Dunking: absolutely not. A rice cake in liquid stops being a rice cake within a second. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this barcode names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. No nutrition comparison of any kind: rice cakes attract more loose talk than almost anything else in a snacking aisle. Gluten: a rice cake is made from rice, but that alone settles nothing, because seasonings and the production line are both part of the question. The seasoning: salt and vinegar is the pack's own description. 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 does jumbo mean here?The rice cake, not the bag. These are the large rounds rather than the small ones, so a bag of this weight holds fewer pieces than the number suggests. A very light product in a big bag looks like a lot of packaging for the weight, and that is exactly what it is.Can I put anything on them?No. Puffed rice is mostly air held in a fragile lattice with no structure to speak of, so a dip goes straight through it and a spread breaks it. This is a snack, not a base.Why does the vinegar hit first?Because the seasoning is on the surface rather than carried in a dough, so it reaches you before anything else does. That is the structural difference between a rice cake and a baked savoury biscuit, and it is why the flavour arrives all at once and then leaves nothing behind.How many are in the bag?The bag says, and we do not.Mine went soft the day after I opened it. Why?A light lattice has an enormous amount of surface and almost nothing solid, so it collapses in humid air faster than any cracker. There is no outer box here to help either. Clip the bag properly rather than folding it, or decant into a tub.Can I bring them back in the oven?Yes, but carefully. Five minutes at about 150C and a few minutes cooling on a rack brings the crunch back, and a surface seasoning scorches where a flavour baked into a dough does not. Watch them from the second minute.How should I serve them?From the bag or a wide bowl, not a deep one. A jumbo rice cake breaks if it is packed in tightly and broken ones are harder to eat from a bowl. Put them out at the last minute, because a bowl left standing is a bowl of disappointment within the hour.What do I drink with them?Something cold, honestly. If you want a hot drink, a plain black tea without milk is the one that copes with vinegar. Avoid anything sweet, fruity or milky: vinegar and milk is not a pairing anyone needs to test twice. Do not dunk them. ## Ingredients & Nutrition Ingredients and allergens. The published ingredient list for this barcode 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 barcode: Wholegrain Rice (46%), Maize, Seasoning [Flavourings, Salt, Acid (Citric Acid), Sugar, Potassium Chloride, Vinegar Powder], Sunflower Oil.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy410 kcalFat5.7gof which saturates1gCarbohydrate78.1gof which sugars1gFibre3.8gProtein8.6gSalt1.3gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsFormatJumbo rounds in a 117g sharing bagLarge cakes rather than small ones, so the bag holds fewer pieces than the weight suggests. A very light product in a large bag is a lot of bag for the weight.PackagingA sealed bag with no outer boxThere is nothing else here to slow the air down once it is open, so the clip matters more than it does on a boxed product.Pack: Snack A Jacks Jumbo Salt & Vinegar Rice Cakes Sharing Crisps, 117g; large savoury rice cakes in a sharing bag, GTIN 5000328024240. Clip the bag properly rather than folding it, or decant gently into an airtight tub without pressing them down, and keep it away from the shelf above the kettle. Read the ingredient list, the seasoning composition, the count, the nutrition panel, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.Characterising components shown.Sourcing & blend. Snack A Jacks Jumbo Salt & Vinegar Rice Cakes Sharing Crisps, 117g carries the Snack A Jacks name, a rice cake brand that sits in the crisps and snacking aisle rather than the cracker one. The jumbo sharing bags are the large-format end of the range, and we list three of them: this savoury one, a caramel and a chocolate chip.What's in Snack A Jacks Jumbo Salt & Vinegar Rice Cakes Sharing Crisps, 117g, and what isn't: In: one hundred and seventeen grams of large puffed rice cakes with a salt and vinegar seasoning, the ingredient list printed on the pack. Surface seasoning, not baked in: that is the structural difference from a savoury biscuit and the reason the flavour arrives all at once. No nutrition comparison of any kind: rice cakes attract more loose talk than almost anything in a snacking aisle, and none of it appears here. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Snack A Jacks Jumbo Salt & Vinegar Rice Cakes Sharing Crisps, 117g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why a rice cake behaves so differently from every baked savoury on this shelf.The outer layer is the seasoning and it is doing nearly all the work, because on a rice cake there is very little else. The flavour sits on the surface rather than being carried in a dough, which means it reaches the tongue immediately rather than a fraction behind the bake. Acidity in particular travels fast, so the vinegar arrives before the salt rather than behind it, and it arrives sharply. That is a real difference in kind and not just degree: a baked savoury biscuit releases its flavour as you chew, while a surface-seasoned rice cake delivers everything in the first instant and then has nothing in reserve.The flavour spike is the salt, and on a sharing bag it is pitched for the job. Salt lifts and clears rather than coating, so the palate resets between pieces, and on a product that leaves nothing behind that reset is almost total. It is the reason a bag of these disappears faster than its weight suggests it should, and it is also why the pairing advice is unusually restrictive. Vinegar and salt together make a hard, bright, acid finish that milk curdles against in the mouth and that sugar simply smothers, which rules out most hot drinks and all sweet ones.The base structure is the most distinctive thing here and it is mostly air. Puffed rice is a fragile open lattice with a very low density, so a jumbo cake is large, light and loud, and it shatters rather than breaking. Three practical consequences follow. First, nothing can go on top: there is no structure to carry a dip and no absorbency to work with, so anything wet passes straight through. Second, the bag holds fewer pieces than the weight suggests and looks like a great deal of packaging for the contents, which is simply what happens when you sell air. Third, and most importantly, an open lattice has an enormous amount of surface and almost nothing solid, so it takes water out of the air faster than any cracker and goes from crisp to leathery within a day rather than a week.Getting it right in the cup. Treat this as a bowl and not a plate. Serve from the bag or a wide shallow bowl rather than a deep one, because a jumbo rice cake breaks under its own neighbours if it is packed in tightly, and broken pieces are awkward to eat from a bowl. Put them out at the last minute, since a bowl standing in a warm room is a bowl of disappointment within the hour. Nothing goes on top of them. For a drink, these genuinely belong beside something cold; if you want a hot one, a plain black tea without milk is the only thing that copes with the vinegar, and anything sweet, fruity or milky is a mistake. There is no version of dunking one of these that ends well.How water and temperature change it. Humidity is the whole story and it moves faster here than anywhere else on this shelf. There is no outer box to slow the air down and no dense crumb to resist it, so an unclipped bag can be soft by the next morning. Use a proper clip rather than a fold, or decant gently into an airtight tub without pressing them down, and keep it away from the shelf above the kettle, which is the most humid spot in the house. The oven rescue does work, and it comes with a warning that does not apply to a plain cracker: the seasoning is on the surface, and a surface seasoning scorches where a flavour baked into a dough does not. Five minutes at about 150C is the outside limit, watching them from the second minute, and then a few minutes cooling on a rack rather than in a tub, since trapped steam goes straight back in. If they have gone properly leathery rather than merely dull, they will not come all the way back, because the lattice itself has relaxed. ## Recipe Ideas This is a light surface-seasoned rice cake sold as a sharing bag, so the builds below are about the bowl, the clip and the very few things a rice cake will actually do. The cards are the bowl, the clip, the careful oven rescue, a soup and chilli crunch, a salad scatter, and what to do with the broken ones. Recipes, born here first The Wide Shallow Bowl How to serve jumbo rice cakes without breaking half of them. 2 min Serves 4 Easy You'll need Snack A Jacks Jumbo Salt & Vinegar A wide shallow bowl, not a deep one Method Tip them out loosely rather than packing them in. Serve from the bag if the only bowl to hand is a deep one. Put them out at the last minute rather than an hour early. A jumbo cake breaks under its own neighbours, and a bowl standing in a warm room is soft within the hour. What you'll end up with: Whole rice cakes that still shatter properly when bitten. The Clip How to stop an open bag going soft overnight. 1 min Whole bag Easy You'll need The opened bag A proper clip, or an airtight tub Method Clip the bag rather than folding it. There is no outer box here to help. Decant gently into a tub if it is going to sit for days, without pressing them down. Keep it away from the shelf above the kettle. An open lattice has enormous surface and almost nothing solid, so it fails in a day rather than a week. What you'll end up with: A second sitting that is still worth eating. The Careful Oven Rescue How to refresh a surface-seasoned snack without scorching it. 8 min Whole bag Medium You'll need Dull rice cakes An oven at 150C A cooling rack Method Lay them in a single layer and set a timer. Watch them from the second minute. A surface seasoning scorches where a baked-in flavour does not. Cool on a rack, never in the tub. If they have gone leathery rather than merely dull, they will not come all the way back. What you'll end up with: Most of the crunch back, with the seasoning intact. Crushed Over a Bowl of Chilli How to use the sharpness where a squeeze of lime would go. 2 min Serves 2 Easy You'll need 2 rice cakes A bowl of chilli or a thick bean soup Soured cream or cheese Method Crush them over the bowl at the table, in large shards rather than crumbs. Add no salt. The seasoning is already doing that job. Eat straight away. They soften in seconds rather than minutes. The vinegar does the same lifting job a squeeze of lime would, which is why this works on a rich bowl. What you'll end up with: A sharp crunch on something rich, added in ten seconds. Scattered Over a Salad How to replace a crouton with something lighter. 3 min Serves 2 Easy You'll need 2 rice cakes, broken A crisp green salad Olive oil, and no vinegar in the dressing Method Dress the salad with oil alone. The rice cakes bring the acidity. Break them over at the table, in pieces rather than crumbs. Serve immediately, because anything wet starts them softening at once. This is the one place the surface seasoning is an ingredient rather than a flavour. What you'll end up with: A salad that is seasoned and crunchy from the same handful. The Broken Ones at the Bottom How to use what is left when the whole cakes are gone. 15 min Serves 2 Easy You'll need The broken pieces from the bottom of the bag Fish fillets, or chicken A beaten egg Method Crush to a coarse crumb. It will be lighter and more open than a breadcrumb. Dip the fillets in egg and press the crumb on firmly. Bake at 200C fan for twelve minutes, and add no salt to the coating. It browns fast because there is so little substance to it, so check early. What you'll end up with: A light, sharp, crunchy coating and an empty bag. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._