Pure & Sure

Sweet & Salt Chiwda

₹105.00(₹0.95 per gram)

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Size 100g

Eight ingredientsNo coloursNo preservatives

CLEANClean recipe for a fried snack.

A sweet-and-salt chiwda built on beaten rice, with peanuts and roasted gram running through it and curry leaves and chilli doing the savoury work against a light sweetness. It's fried in cold-pressed sunflower oil rather than a refined blend, and carries no palm oil, no preservative, no flavour enhancer and no added colour — the ingredient list stays short enough to actually read.

A snacking mix suited to tea-time, lunchboxes and everyday munching. Contains peanut.

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Why We Like It

Cold-pressed sunflower oil, no palm, no TBHQ, no MSG and no colour.
Eight ingredients, rather than an oil blend and a premix.
Sugar sits fourth on a list of eight, at 4.5 g per 100 g.

Ingredients

Organic white beaten rice

The base

Poha, the same refined white flakes the brand sells on its own. Light rather than wholegrain.

Organic roasted channa

Note

Roasted gram for crunch and a little protein.

Organic groundnut

Note

Peanut, third on the list and so present in quantity. A major allergen.

Organic sugar

Fourth on the list — the 'sweet' half of sweet-and-salt

Total sugars and added sugars are both 4.5 g, so all the sugar here is added.

Organic chilli and curry leaves

Note

The savoury side, from real spice and leaf rather than a seasoning premix.

Organic cold-pressed sunflower oil

The frying medium

Packaged namkeen usually uses palm oil or a blended vegetable oil.

Salt

Seasoning

Salt is a mineral and cannot be certified organic.

Not present

No preservative, no TBHQ, no MSG or flavour enhancer and no artificial colour

All standard in this aisle.

Nutrition factsPer 100g

Energy kcal: 443 kcal
Protein g: 8.9 g
Carbohydrate g: 68 g
Total sugars g: 4.5 g
Added sugars g: 4.5 g
Dietary fibre g: 5.3 g
Total fat g: 22.1 g
Saturated fat g: 13.8 g
Trans fat g: 0 g
Cholesterol mg: 0 mg
Salt g: 1.22 g

Pure & Sure Sweet & Salt Chiwda versus other chiwdas

What to compare	Purepicked	Regular chiwda
Ingredient list	Eight ingredients	Often oil blends and premixes
Frying oil	Cold-pressed sunflower oil	Palm oil or 'edible vegetable oil'
Preservative	None	TBHQ (INS 319) common
Flavour enhancer	None	MSG (INS 621) common

Is It For You?

Good for

Tea-time and evening snacking

Office drawers and travel

Bhel and chaat mixes

Sprinkled over salads for crunch

Avoid if

Anyone with a peanut allergy

How to use

Eat straight from the pack with chai or coffee

Fold into bhel with onion, tomato and chutney

Scatter over a salad or a bowl of curd rice for crunch

Reseal tightly after opening; the flakes go soft within days in humidity

What to look for in Chiwda?

Read what it is actually made of. Besan or millet should lead. Maida near the top means refined wheat flour in a different shape.

Check which oil it was fried in. Palm oil and unnamed 'edible vegetable oil' blends are the default in packaged namkeen.

TBHQ (INS 319) is the usual antioxidant in fried snacks. A pack without it has a shorter shelf life, which is the honest trade.

MSG shows up as 'flavour enhancer (INS 621)'. A properly spiced snack does not need it.