Baked to European rules. Potassium bromate and azodicarbonamide,
both used to treat flour in American baking, are not permitted in the European Union. Six food
colours that are still common in American biscuits and iced cakes must carry a warning on the label
here, so European bakers stopped using them. Titanium dioxide, used to make icing and coatings an
opaque white, has been banned as a food colour in the EU since 2022. It is the same reason the
ingredient list on the back of the pack is short.
Slim red box with the Nyåkers dot logo. Swedish pepparkakor — thin, hard, snapping ginger biscuits, spiced with clove, cinnamon and ginger. The Christmas biscuit of Sweden, eaten by the handful through December and traditionally pressed onto the palm to see if it breaks in three (which is said to mean a wish comes true).
It is explicitly labelled "Suitable for vegans and vegetarians" — printed on the box, not inferred. Eight ingredients, no dairy, no egg, no palm oil. For a Christmas biscuit that is genuinely unusual, and it makes this the one to point a vegan customer at.
Nyåkers bake in Bjurholm in northern Sweden and the box says so.
Ingredients
Wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oil (rapeseed oil, fully hydrogenated rapeseed oil, natural flavor), sodium bicarbonate, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, salt.
Nutrition
5 servings per container — serving size 6 cookies (30 g) ~433 kcal · Fat ~14.3 g · Sat ~4 g · Carbs ~76.7 g · Sugars ~40 g · Protein ~3.3 g · Salt ~2.25 g
🇸🇪 Product of Sweden.
