Snacking Cheese 'Classic'

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Snacking Cheese 'Classic'

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One ingredient: cheese, baked until it shatters.

Hard Italian cheese, crumbled and baked crisp. One ingredient, no carbohydrate, and two gold stars at the 2024 Great Taste Awards.

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Why we recommend it

The ingredient list is cheese. That is not us abbreviating, it is the list. The cheese is aged, broken up and baked until the fat renders and the rest goes glassy, an old northern Italian trick called frico that needs nothing else to work.

It answers the crisp problem, which is where most low-carb evenings come apart. Salt, crunch, no carbohydrate, and enough protein that a small bag is actually filling. What else do you need on a Friday?

I've tried it, I love it, so does Nico.
Liton Ali
How we choose products

Nothing gets on this list because a brand asked. We try everything ourselves. And only recommend things we'd feed to our families.

The carb bands are ours. Zero is under a gram a serving, Low under five, Medium under ten. Where a product's own marketing and its nutrition panel disagree, the panel wins and we say so on the page.

Only carbohydrates become glucose. Protein becomes amino acids and fat becomes fatty acids, which is why a fatty snack with two grams of carbohydrate does very little to your glucose and a fat-free one with twenty does rather a lot.
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Nutrition information here comes from the manufacturer's own labelling and can change without notice. Read the pack in front of you. If you have a food allergy, the pack is the only thing that counts.

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