Are Tesco Rice Cakes High In Syns - How Many Syns In Them?

Rice cakes are a great low syn snack to have on the slimming world plan providing you choose plan options, this allows you to top them with any flavour you want and keep them low in syns.

Tesco's rice cakes, in particular, have to vary syns according to the flavours that you buy, but for their plain lightly salted version you are looking at 1.5 syns a rice cake, making it a very SW friendly low syn snack.

Down below we will discuss why rice cakes are good for you on the slimming world diet, the other syn values of Tesco rice cakes and some low syn alternatives from other brands.

Why Are Tesco Rice Cakes So Low In Syns?

Rice cakes are low in syns as they are made only out of puffed rice which has a lot of volumes but not many calories (unless you buy a flavoured version), this makes them an excellent low syn alternative to crackers for example which are high in syns.

You could have up to 10 of Tesco's lightly salted rice cakes before hitting your daily syn allowance, topping them with syn free foods such as tuna, eggs or even fruit for a sweet craving.

Tesco Rice Cake Syn Values

Since Tesco's rice cakes vary according to different flavours we have listed out their range of syn values below to give you some low syn shopping inspo for your next supermarket trip.

• Tesco Rice Cakes Milk Chocolate 105G - 4 syns per rice cake.
• Tesco Yogurt Coated Rice Cakes 105G - 4 syns per rice cake.
• Tesco Salt & Vinegar Rice Cakes 130G - 1.5 syns per rice cake.
• Tesco Chocolate & Salted Caramel Rice Cakes 123G - 5 syns per cake.
• Tesco Chocolate Orange Rice Cakes 129G - 5 syns per cake.
• Tesco Free From Caramel Rice Cakes 165G - 2 syns per cake.
• Tesco Free From Caramel Rice Cakes 165G - 1.5 syns per cake.

Low Syn Alternatives To Tesco Rice Cakes

There is a huge range of different rice cakes on the market to choose from which are also low in syns, we have listed them below to help you out.

• Snack a Jacks Chocolate Chip Rice Cakes 180g - 3 syns per cake. 
• Sainsbury's Low Fat Rice Cake, Be Good To Yourself - 1.5 syns per cake.  
• Itsu Rice Dark Chocolate Cakes - 4 syns per cake. 
• The Snack Organisation Sweet Chilli Rice Crackers 1/4 pack serving - 5.5 syns.
• Marmite Rice Cakes 110g - 1.5 syns per cake. 
• Harvest Morn Rice Cakes With Yoghurt Coating 150g - 4 syns per cake. 
• Itsu Yoghurt Rice Cakes 34g - 4 syns per cake. 
• Snack a Jacks Jumbo Cheese Rice Cakes 120g - 2 syns a cake. 
• Biofair Organic Fair Trade Dark Chocolate Rice Cakes - 12 syns for a whole pack.
• Snack a Jacks Salt & Vinegar Jumbo Rice Cakes 126g - 2 syns a cake. 
• Snack a Jacks Jumbo Caramel Rice Cakes 159g - 2.5 syns per cake. 
• Biona Quinoa organic rice cakes - 1.5 syns per cake. 
• Biona Seasalt Organic Rice Cakes 100g - 1.5 syns per cake. 
• Snack a Jacks Sour Cream & Chive Multipack Rice Cakes 5 x 19g - 4 syns per pack.
• Harvest Morn Multigrain Healthy Rice Cakes 130g - 1.5 syns.
• Nature's Store GF White Chocolate Rice Cakes 100g - 4 syns per cake. 
• M&S Dark Chocolate Rice Cakes 25g x 5 per pack - 6 syns. 
• Nature's Store Free From Chocolate Orange Rice Cake 100G - 4 syns per cake.
• Snack a Jacks Sweet Chilli Multipack Rice Cakes 5 x 19g - 4 syns a pack.
• M&S Strawberry & Yogurt rice cakes 125g - 6 syns a pack. 
• Sainsbury's Rice Cakes Protein Version with Pea & Lentil 125g - 1.5 syns per cake.  
• Sainsbury's Milk Chocolate Mini Rice Cakes 4x30g - 7 syns a pack.  

How Many Syns In Tesco's Chocolate Rice Cakes?

Tesco's Chocolate Rice Cakes have a total of 4 syns per cake - so enjoy! 🙂

Final Words

To conclude, Tesco's rice cakes are low in syns no matter the flavour that you choose with none of them going over the 5 syn mark, we suggest choosing the plan version which is 1.5 syns to save some syns and topping them yourself with some SYN FREE toppings if you are after extra flavour.

If you are looking to find out exactly how Slimming World works, have a look at this article!