Pringles Sizzl'N Spicy BBQ, 180g

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The origin of the name for Pringles is unclear, with several theories around how the product’s name was inspired. One theory for how the name of the brand came to be, refers to Mark Pringle, who filed a US Patent 2,286,644 titled “Method and Apparatus for Processing Potatoes” on March 5th, 1937. Mark Pringle’s work was cited by Procter & Gamble in their own patent for improving the taste of dehydrated processed potatoes.

Colour (Annatto)– A red/orange food colouring that is produced using the seeds of the achiote tree, so this too is vegan friendly It has launched three flavours under a new range called Sizzl’n, each offering varying levels of heat intensity.A man named Fred Baur, an organic chemist was enlisted by Procter & Gamble to create a new type of chip that could solve the aforementioned customer complaints. Fred Baur spent around 2 years engineering saddle-shaped chips from fried dough and invented a new tubular can design to be used with the chips as a storage container. Supercomputers were used to ensure that the chips were able to fit into the tubular aluminum-coated can and were aerodynamic enough to keep the chips in place to avoid breakage.

The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice. Pringles UK activation brand lead Rebecca Worthington said: “We know demand for spicy flavours is following, so this is the perfect addition to our portfolio to drive category growth.” Pringles were originally developed by consumer goods giant Proctor & Gamble in 1967. The iconic shape of the crisps and the tubes in which they are sold was developed by Frederic Baur, a food storage technician and organic chemist. Baur was so fond of his invention that he requested that some of his ashes be placed in a Pringles tube and buried, a request with which his children duly complied.

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While Baur was able to create the shape and also invent the can for what would become Pringles, he struggled to perfect the taste. Try as he might, he could not get Pringles to taste good enough. Eventually, Baur was given a new assignment for a different product. In the mid-1960s, another researcher for P&G, named Alexander Liepa, from Montgomery, Ohio, restarted the work of Fred Baur and succeeded in improving the chip taste enough to take the product to market.

Pringles struggled with its popularity in its early days. Having a rough start was always the name of the game with Pringles. The product was halted in development due to struggles over perfecting its taste. Even after its release, Pringles still received complaints about its taste, complaints that would follow it for a long time. Yeast Extract– Yeast is not derived from plants, but neither does it come from animals as it is a fungus, so it is vegan-friendlyGene Wolfe was in the engineering development division and was tasked with the cooking portion of the mass production equipment used to make Pringles. Wolf stated that the man in the team responsible for the can filling part of the process nearly went crazy due to being asked to find new ways to accommodate an ever increases production rate. Len Hooper was the man responsible for developing the equipment for the dough making/dough rolling portion of the process of making Pringles. Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Corn)– Oil produced from vegetables (obviously!), so again, definitely vegan