Japan’s biggest crisp-maker is stripping the colour from its famous packets as the US-Israeli war on Iran is disrupting supplies of petroleum-derived printing materials.
Calbee said on Tuesday that 14 of its products, including the flagship potato chips, Kappa Ebisen prawn crackers, and Frugra cereal, were temporarily getting monochrome packaging from 25 May because of “supply instability affecting certain raw materials amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East”.
