Choose an individual 22–25g bag if you want a defined crisp portion alongside lunch; choose a 40g bag if you deliberately want a larger portion. Check the exact pack’s energy, fat, salt and allergen information: a baked or lightly salted description does not settle every part of the decision.
An individually packed 22–25g portion can sit alongside a sandwich, salad or other lunch without opening a sharing bag. In a 2020 City Pantry survey of 2,000 full-time UK office-based employees, 42% said they spent their lunch break at their desk every day; that figure describes desk-eating habits, not crisp preferences.
Compare the figures for the bag you intend to eat. Walkers describes its Lightly Salted crisps as having 45% less salt than the average value for regular potato crisps, while its Oven Baked Sea Salt claim concerns fat. Neither claim describes every Walkers flavour.
Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free statements, as well as allergen advice, need checking for the exact flavour. A flavour name alone cannot establish whether a particular bag meets a dietary requirement.
Start with the size of the individual bag, then compare its nutrition panel and flavour-specific declarations. Multipack size answers a different question: how many lunches the purchase will cover.
| Priority | What to check | Your needs |
|---|---|---|
| Portion size | Find the weight of each inner bag, not just the multipack weight. Compare per-pack energy when considering 22g, 25g and 40g options. | I want one bag alongside lunch, rather than an open sharing pack. If I choose 40g, I want that larger crisp portion deliberately. |
| Fat | Read fat per pack and per 100g, particularly when bag sizes differ. Walkers states 2.8g fat per 22g Oven Baked Sea Salt pack; its 50% less-fat claim uses regular potato crisps as the comparator. | Fat is my main comparison, but I still want to check the portion size and salt in the flavour I choose. |
| Salt | Compare declared salt per pack and per 100g. Walkers lists 0.17g per typical 25g Lightly Salted pack; its 45% less-salt claim compares with the average value for regular potato crisps. | I am choosing by the stated salt amount, not assuming that a sea-salt or lightly salted name tells me the amount in the bag. |
| Dietary suitability | Check the exact flavour’s ingredients, allergen advice and any vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free statement on the current packet. | If an ingredient or cross-contact warning matters to me, I need the declaration for the bag I will actually eat. |
| Repeat lunches | Check the number and size of individual bags, the flavour mix and the best-before information before choosing a larger multipack or case. | A supply for several desk lunches is useful only if its portions and flavours suit those lunches. |
Walkers gives 96 kcal for a 22g Oven Baked Sea Salt pack, while Tyrrells gives 208 kcal for its 40g Lightly Sea Salted bag. Those are different products and different amounts of crisps.
Check the individual bag weight and per-pack panel before deciding how it fits beside lunch; use per-100g values for a like-for-like nutrition comparison.
Tyrrells says Lightly Sea Salted may contain milk, whereas Seabrook declares its Canadian Ham flavour gluten-free and suitable for vegetarians. Neither a plain-sounding name nor a meat-sounding name settles the question.
Read the ingredients, allergen advice and suitability statement for the specific, current packet, especially if you have an allergy or intolerance.
Walkers lists 2.8g fat and 0.19g salt per 22g Oven Baked Sea Salt pack, compared with 7.8g fat and 0.17g salt per typical 25g Lightly Salted pack. The choice changes with the nutrient and portion being compared.
Decide which figure matters to your purchase, then read the others rather than treating one front-of-pack claim as a complete nutrition comparison.
REAL Hand Cooked Crisps lists a mixed box of 24 individual 35g bags with a choice of flavours. The selected flavours determine which ingredient and allergen declarations you need to read.
Confirm the flavour mix, individual bag size, nutrition panels and best-before information before buying a supply for repeated lunches.
These examples show why the exact product and bag size matter more than a brand-wide assumption.
Its named Lightly Salted and Oven Baked Sea Salt products offer different ways to compare a small crisp portion.
Lightly Sea Salted offers a 40g bag for shoppers choosing a larger individual crisp portion.
Its listed cases of 18 individual 40g bags are relevant when buying crisps for several lunches.
Canadian Ham is a named 25g option with flavour-specific dietary declarations.
Anglesey Sea Salt is relevant when checking a named flavour’s dietary statements.
Its mixed box is an option to assess when buying individual bags for repeated lunches.
These options cover individual bags in multipacks and a larger 40g tub format. The 40g Pringles tub is an alternative portion format, not a hand-cooked crisp.
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Six individual 22g bags give you a defined portion to take with lunch. This is a variety pack, so check the nutrition, ingredients and allergen advice for each flavour rather than applying figures for Walkers Oven Baked Sea Salt to the whole pack.
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This combination of two 20-packs suits someone buying individual bags for repeated lunches. Check each flavour’s bag size, nutrition and dietary declarations; a mixed pack should not be treated as having one set of flavour-specific figures.
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Each 40g tub is a larger individual portion than the 22–25g bags discussed above. If portion size or dietary suitability affects your choice, compare its own nutrition panel and check the tub’s allergen declaration.
A 22–25g individual bag gives you a smaller defined crisp portion; a 40g bag is a deliberate choice for more crisps. Read the actual bag weight rather than relying on “grab bag”: Tyrrells, for example, declares its 40g Lightly Sea Salted bag as one serving with 208 kcal.
Use per-pack figures to see what is in the bag you plan to eat, then per-100g figures to compare products on the same weight basis. GOV.UK nutrition-labelling guidance identifies energy, fat, saturates, carbohydrate, sugars, protein and salt among the declared nutrition information.
No; check the declared amount for the exact portion. Walkers lists 0.17g salt per typical 25g Lightly Salted pack and describes it as having 45% less salt than the average value for regular potato crisps. A differently sized bag needs both per-pack and per-100g comparison.
No. Seabrook declares Canadian Ham gluten-free and suitable for vegetarians, while Pipers makes gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan statements for Anglesey Sea Salt. Check the current ingredients, suitability statements and allergen advice on the exact flavour you intend to buy.