Grilled squid with a spicy seafood dipping sauce is a classic Thai street snack, and this seasoning recreates that smoky, savoury and hot taste on a crisp. Blends like this typically contain chilli, sugar, salt, garlic, an acid such as citric acid, flavour enhancers such as MSG and nucleotides, and a squid or seafood flavouring. Some use real squid or seafood powder, while others rely mainly on flavourings.
It flavours Pringles - Hot&Spicy Grilled Squid, dusted over stackable crisps made from dried potato, corn flour and starch. On the Thai-language label the ingredient is described as a grilled-squid flavour with a spicy taste, the usual wording for a flavouring rather than for squid as a main ingredient.
If a seasoning like this does contain squid, that is a mollusc, and seafood powders can also include crustaceans; both are allergen groups. The allergen statement on the can shows what a given product contains.
