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Ingredient

Cracker

A cracker is a biscuit made with flour, sometimes with salt, seeds, cheese, or chicken stock. Crackers are baked and can be fermented. They pair with cheese, meat, fruit, jam, butter, or peanut butter.

  • May contain dairy
  • May contain milk

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Cracker, whole

Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use cracker

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Ferment

Made from

Goes well with

Nutrition

What 100 g of cracker holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 12%Fat 19%Carbohydrate 69%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of cracker
Energy412 kcal · 1,724 kJ
Protein9.6 g
Fat16 g
of which saturated3.2 g
Carbohydrate57 g
of which sugars0 g
Fibre6.4 g
Sodium706 mg
Cholesterol16 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of cracker: minerals and vitamins
Potassium212 mg
Calcium128 mg
Iron3.5 mg
Magnesium68 mg
Zinc1.8 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)12 µg
Folate103 µg
Vitamin B120.06 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 174084), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

On the table

Dishes made with cracker

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Fried Cassava Cake Crackers

    Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include cracker.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: cracker in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Sometimes milk (only when the optional ingredient is used)
Animal origin
Sometimes dairy (only when the optional ingredient is used)

Family

Related forms

A kind of
biscuit

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What cracker is called

Names in 41 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    cracker

  • French

    cracker · craquelin

  • Italian

    cracker

  • Portuguese

    cracker

  • German

    Cracker · Kräcker

  • Dutch

    cracker

  • Turkish

    kraker

  • Russian

    крекер

  • Polish

    krakers

  • Arabic

    متكسرات · رقائق · مقرمشات

  • Persian

    کرکر

  • Hebrew

    קרקר

Show all 41 languages

  • Armenian

    Կրեկեր

  • Azerbaijani

    biskvit

  • Basque

    galleta gatzdun

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    крэкер

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    cream cracker

  • Cantonese

    克力架

  • Catalan

    galeta de soda

  • Cheyenne

    mo'óhkonavekóhkonôheo'o

  • Chinese

    克力架 · 克力架餅乾

  • Croatian

    kreker

  • Danish

    kiks

  • Esperanto

    biskoto

  • Filipino

    galyetas

  • Finnish

    korppu · hapankorppu

  • Hindi

    बिस्कुट

  • Ido

    biskoto

  • Indonesian

    kraker

  • Inupiaq

    qaqqulaaq

  • Irish

    briosca

  • Japanese

    クラッカー

  • Javanese

    krèker

  • Korean

    크래커 · 크래커(과자)

  • Malay

    kraker

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    kavring

  • Romanian

    cracker

  • Slovenian

    kreker · cracker

  • Tatar (Latin)

    catnaķ

  • Traditional Chinese

    克力架

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    克力架

  • Ukrainian

    крекер

  • Vietnamese

    bánh quy giòn

  • Welsh

    cracer · cracer (bwyd) · cracer (bisged) · cracer sych

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q856330

Photos

Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons