Starbucks Kettle Chips Mature Cheddar & Red Onion

Starbucks Kettle Chips Mature Cheddar and Red Onion cost £1.55 and carry 209 calories a bag with 3.2g of protein. Kettle cooked crisps with a cheese and onion seasoning.

3.2g of protein is the highest of the four bags, and the dairy in the seasoning is why. Milk is the only declared allergen and it means these are vegetarian rather than vegan, which separates them from the lightly salted and balsamic vinegar bags.

Salt at 0.48g sits in the middle of the range, and sugar at 0.5g is negligible. Saturated fat is 1.3g, and total fat at 12g matches every other bag in the range, since the seasoning changes the flavour rather than the cooking.

Mature is the word doing the work in the flavour. A young Cheddar dried into a seasoning powder tastes of very little, while a matured one has concentrated enough to survive the process, which is why the description names the age rather than just the cheese.

Milk in a crisp seasoning is worth flagging to anyone shopping for a dairy free option, because the cheese here is real rather than a flavouring. That is what produces both the protein figure and the allergen line, and it is why this bag cannot carry the vegan label the plain one does.

Cheese and onion is the most ordered crisp flavour in the UK and has been for decades, so this is the bag most stores keep deepest. Anyone who finds the shelf empty of it late in the day is experiencing the ordinary consequence of that.

Red onion rather than plain onion powder is the other half of the description. Red onion is sweeter and milder raw, and dried into a seasoning it gives a rounder background than the sharper white onion most cheese and onion crisps use. It is a small difference and it is the one this bag is built on.

It carries a vegetarian label. Prices reach £2.20 on delivery. The snacking cheese is the higher protein savoury option at 11g.