{"id":383076,"date":"2026-01-21T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383076\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:03:10","slug":"dragons-den-ballymena-crisp-innovator-del-currie-who-won-over-two-dragons-on-his-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383076\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragons\u2019 Den: Ballymena crisp innovator Del Currie who won over two Dragons on his product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Top-rated on Trustpilot, Spudos are made from sustainably farmed potatoes and come in compostable bags, with up to eight flavours of \u2018dust\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Del Currie on Dragons' Den\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ecb7a28f-007b-43aa-bac7-2afd06ec06e4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Del Currie on Dragons&#8217; Den<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A sustainable crisp brand which appeared on Dragons\u2019 Den has a Ballymena man at its heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Businessman Del Currie, who was \u201ca big fan of salt and shake\u201d crisps when a young boy, took that idea and expanded it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-rated on Trustpilot, Spudos are made from sustainably farmed potatoes and come in compostable bags, with up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1900,243,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-383076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-antrim-news","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}