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Speaker 1: Is a cheese and cracker platter something that you look

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Speaker 1: forward to every weekend. Do you scan the shelves to

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Speaker 1: find the most nutritious crackers, only to be left confused

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Speaker 1: by the huge range that you find in supermarkets. Well,

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Speaker 1: don't worry, we have you covered. So today we're going

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Speaker 1: to review three of the most popular seeded crackers in

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Speaker 1: the supermarket.

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Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Susie Burrow and Only and Wood.

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Speaker 1: And it's two of Ustrays leading dieticians who specialize in

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Speaker 1: evidence based nutrition. We bring you the Nutrition Couch Product Review,

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Speaker 1: a weekly chat on new products and the old favorites

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Speaker 1: that you can find in supermarkets. So Leanne, I'm a

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Speaker 1: little bit like you as I've got older. I love

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Speaker 1: crackers in particular, and I love a cheese plate, and

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Speaker 1: I have to say I take great pride in creating beautiful,

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Speaker 1: entertaining platter. So I'm really looking forward to moving into

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Speaker 1: my new house so i can get back to entertaining regularly.

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Speaker 1: And I know you're a cheese and cracker lover as

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Speaker 1: well well.

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Speaker 2: I'm a massive fan. Choosing cracker's hands down have to

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Speaker 2: be Oh if I had oh, I'm gonna say top five,

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Speaker 2: But I might stretch to top ten foods that I

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Speaker 2: could as my last days on a cheese crackers would

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Speaker 2: hands down been in the top. But you know the

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Speaker 2: good quality stuff Triple Bree or some ash Bree or

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Speaker 2: some nice you know French cheese, and you know some

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Speaker 2: good grainy, seedy crackers as well.

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Speaker 1: The daffen wire is a big favorite of mine, but

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Speaker 1: at the moment I'm actually enjoying the truffled cheddar. Like

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Speaker 1: there's truffled one and you just slice it, and there's

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Speaker 1: these Lavosh crackers that are just my absolute favorite. So yes,

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Speaker 1: you're talking to people who know their cheese and crackers people,

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Speaker 1: so you're in good hands. So the first one I'm

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Speaker 1: going to review today is a brand that I really

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Speaker 1: love all of their products in general. The Alinas are

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Speaker 1: Tsion crackers, and we've chosen the cranberry and sunfow our

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Speaker 1: seed ones and I have definitely had these land have

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Speaker 1: been on my and often I'll include a style of

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Speaker 1: cracker like this on my patters. Now, these retail for

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Speaker 1: four dollars at calls and four dollars fifty at were worse.

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Speaker 1: They're certainly not inexpensive, and I think that's often a

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Speaker 1: testament to the quality of the ingredients, because the seeds

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Speaker 1: in particular can be quite expensive. So what we'll do

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Speaker 1: today we might compare hundred grams, I think, because it's

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Speaker 1: difficult with serving sizes because they don't necessarily specify how

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Speaker 1: many crackers that is, so it will go per hundred grams.

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Speaker 1: So per hundred these crackers have got seventeen one hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety kilo jules, which a quick calculation is about

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Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty calories for that entire box. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: is it one hundred grand box? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Yes, hold long, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Nine point nine grams of protein, eleven point nine grams

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Speaker 1: of total fat, and just one point seven grams saturated.

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Speaker 1: So whilst seeds do have some fat in them, they're

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Speaker 1: very very low and saturated fat, which is a good side.

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Speaker 1: Anything less than three percent saturated fat is a good

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Speaker 1: quality product. Carbohydrates, as you would expect from a cracker,

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Speaker 1: sixty five point six grams. A high proportion of those

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Speaker 1: sugar is twenty two point one grams, and I will

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Speaker 1: stress that because when we look at these ingredient lists,

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Speaker 1: the dried fruit in those will be giving most of

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Speaker 1: that sugar drive through five to seven point nine per

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Speaker 1: hundred and seven hundred and seventy milligrams of sod, which

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Speaker 1: again sounds quite high, but if you break it down

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Speaker 1: to sort of three or four crackers per serve it

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Speaker 1: it's pretty low overall. And we'd look at the ingredients.

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Speaker 1: Wheat flour is first, followed by flax seeds, which are

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Speaker 1: extremely high in the plant source of a Mega three fat,

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Speaker 1: which is a massive bonus, although we don't have the

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Speaker 1: actual reading on that fat profile. Dried sweet and cranberries

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Speaker 1: at ten point seven percent, so not insignificant in giving

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Speaker 1: much of those sugars which have got a little bit

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Speaker 1: which is an interesting ingredient really for this kind of product.

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Speaker 1: Sunflower seeds at five point one percent, which is also

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Speaker 1: a fair whack of sunflower seeds in these products, so

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Speaker 1: it doesn't give us the percentage of flax seeds, which

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Speaker 1: is odd. Why they've only done it for sunflower seeds

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Speaker 1: flour is the first ingredient and it's made in Australia.

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Speaker 1: We believe it's an Australian company from at least seventy

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Speaker 1: four percent of austrain ingredients, which is actually really highly

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Speaker 1: are a million times better than crackers made with palm oil,

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Speaker 1: weighs any negatives. I think they're really good. I buy them,

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Speaker 1: I recommend them. I think that just keeping an eye

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Speaker 1: on the portions, you'd want sort of three four five

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Speaker 2: I agree, I buy them. I love them. I think they're

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Speaker 2: absolutely delicious. But I would be hard pressed to eat

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Speaker 2: like a lot, like twelve grams of fat, twenty grams

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Speaker 2: don't forget we were listing off per one hundred grams,

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Speaker 2: so the entire box. And you know, I could probably

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Speaker 2: of jats, and I just wouldn't find them satisfying. Yet,

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Speaker 2: think I'd actually be hard pressed to eat the whole packet,

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Speaker 2: just because of the good profile of nuts and seeds

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Speaker 2: like jats cracker or rice crackers. Like, let's be honest,

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Speaker 2: those rice crackers are so more as you could eat two, three,

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Speaker 2: four rows of them for an incredible amount of carbohydrate.

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Speaker 2: Compared to these ones, They've at least got a really

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Speaker 2: good fat, nice fat profile in there which kind of

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Speaker 2: say sheated over time. So I'm a massive fan of

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Speaker 2: these as well, Susie. And putting some of these on

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Speaker 2: of veggi sticks and a bit of fresh fruit. Actually

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Speaker 2: don't know why they called them cranberry and sunflower seeds.

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Speaker 2: I like flat seeds. I find them far more nutritious.

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Speaker 2: I would have called them cranberry and flax seeds, but

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Speaker 2: maybe it's just harder to pronounce. I'm not really sure.

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Speaker 2: With the higher proportion of flax seeds compared to sunflower seeds,

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Speaker 2: why they put some flour in the name and not

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Speaker 1: I guess people don't really know flax seeds so much,

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Speaker 1: where a sunflower is sort of a positive association, like

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Speaker 1: the boxes yellow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, maybe.

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Speaker 1: I think what I love about these crackers is they're

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Speaker 1: so crunchy that you're really satisfied after eating them. And

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Speaker 1: if I'm having them, I won't have just one cracker

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Speaker 1: to overeat them, whereas things like you said, those sort

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Speaker 1: ten rice crackers there's the equivalent carbohydrate of two slices

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Speaker 1: of bread. They've got to be one of the most

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Speaker 1: getting some good fats from them, and there are a

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Speaker 1: million times better than traditional biscuits, which are basically a

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Speaker 1: mix of sugar, palm oil and refined white wheat flour.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, big thumbs up from me. I love this

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Speaker 1: brand and I use them all the time. Now, the

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Speaker 1: the Carmen Supersed and nut Roasted Almond and Sesame crackers,

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Speaker 1: and I do consult to Carmens, and I've been a

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Speaker 1: So maybe Leanne you take us through them, because I

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Speaker 1: the Alina crackers we've looked at first, So you give

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Speaker 2: To be I do love Carmas. It's a brand that

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Speaker 2: I do use them, but I'm not an ambassador. Sadly,

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Speaker 2: I'm very jealous Susie. So I will take you guys

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Speaker 2: is eighty grams and they're three dollars fifty at Woolworths

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Speaker 2: and Coals So when we go through the ingredient list,

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Speaker 2: the first ingredient is seeds forty two percent seeds. That's

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Speaker 2: a really high proportion, a great fat profile. To kick

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Speaker 2: us off, we've got a mix of some flour, sesame

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Speaker 2: and limb seeds. The next ingredient is a gluten free

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Speaker 2: flour blend, and then we've got chickpea fababe and tapioca

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Speaker 2: flour in there. We've got some flour oil, some linseed meal,

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Speaker 2: some almonds at seven percent sea salt, garlic, and some

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Speaker 2: natural antioxidants being rosemoo extractor round us off. So the

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Speaker 2: alunses in here are almonds, in sesame and maybe presents.

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Speaker 2: Obviously they're made on the same processing line as peanuts,

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Speaker 2: soy and tree nuts, so if you've sort of that

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Speaker 2: want to be very careful. But the benefit is here

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Speaker 2: that they are gluten free. It's a nice Aussie brand

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Speaker 2: and the ingredient list is very clean with a wonderful

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Speaker 2: we're going to compare per one hundred grams, So we're

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Speaker 2: comparing luck to like nineteen hundred and forty kilodules, fifteen

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Speaker 2: point four grams of protein, thirty three point six grams

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Speaker 2: of fat, with only three point two being saturated, a

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Speaker 2: wonderful fat profile there, so a high percentage of fat,

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Speaker 2: but all of that being basically are good fats. Twenty

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Speaker 2: one point nine grams of carbohydrate, So for that whole box,

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Speaker 2: it's actually very low carbohydrate. That that's a slice of

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Speaker 2: thick bread basically the equivalent carbohydrate because it is a

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Speaker 2: higher fat product, you know, predominantly it's coming from the

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Speaker 2: seeds versus actual the carbohydrate, with only one point six

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Speaker 2: grams of that being naturally occurring sugars, seven point seven

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Speaker 2: grams of dietary fiber, and five hundred and twenty one

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Speaker 2: milligrams of sodium, which sounds very high, but per serving,

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Speaker 2: I just think there would be more of that. I

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Speaker 1: So this is one of the strongest gluten free crackers

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I chose this specifically because it is gluten free.

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Speaker 1: for listening.

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Speaker 2: Touch your guys next week