Thai sweet chilli is a clever choice for reduced fat crisps. The bold, sweet-spicy flavour works harder than subtle seasonings, providing enough taste to distract from textural shortcomings.
M&S leverages this advantage effectively.
The sweet chilli is properly calibrated. Sweetness forward, warmth building, enough going on to keep your attention. You’re focused on flavour rather than mourning the absent fat.
The texture remains the reduced fat limitation. Lighter than proper crisps, less satisfying, the eternal compromise of diet snacking. But the flavour compensates more successfully than milder seasonings manage.
If you’re eating reduced fat crisps, choose bold flavours. Thai sweet chilli works. Ready salted doesn’t. The format demands compensation.
The least bad reduced fat option. That’s actually meaningful praise.
