Do cheese and onion crisps have more salt than salt and vinegar, as No Such Thing As A Fish claims?

Yes, for Walkers at least. Anna Ptaszynski checked the brand's own flavour pages: salt and vinegar lists 0.6g of salt per 100g, cheese and onion 1.2g and ready salted 1.3g. The panel suspects the vinegar's sharpness makes salt and vinegar taste saltier than it is.

KP salted peanuts also contain less salt than KP dry roasted peanuts, by the same check.
Golden Wonder, not Walkers, invented cheese and onion crisps and sold them in a green packet.

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“My fact this week is that cheese and onion crisps contain twice as much salt as salt and vinegar crisps.” Anna Ptaszynski · at 1:05 — open in the transcript →

Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on No Such Thing As A Fish (2026-11-05). Read the whole episode summary →

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