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Love your partner and love crisps - then here is the perfect Valentine's food for you.

Tyrells has launched the first ever crisps to contain aphrodisiac properties.

The crisp brand claim their new aphrodisiac variety will "get pulses racing" on Valentine's Day by combining two simple ingredients - sweet honey and the firey spice of chilli.

According to Tyrrells these two ingredients can have a powerful effect on the body, with the honey "tinkering with hormone levels" and the chilli triggering nerve endings on the tongue, releasing endorphins and increasing heart rate.

But do they actually work?

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Polly Hudson (and her husband) put them to the test - here's what she thought.

The crisp challenge

I’ve never had Oysters. Doesn’t make sense to me that you pay loads of money for something that looks like snot, which you then don’t even taste because you just gulp it down it one.

So aphrodisiac-wise, I’m pretty much a virgin, and assumed I always would be.

But now everything has changed.

Because in 2019 we can get our aphrodisiacs in a much more down to earth form – crisps.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Tyrrells are launching Honey and Chilli flavour, which are “guaranteed to heat up any date night".

Apparently both ingredients can have “provocative effects on the body, the first tinkering with hormone levels while the latter triggers nerve endings on the tongue, releasing endorphins and increasing the heart rate.”

My husband Nick and I have been together for over a decade, so obviously we need all the help we can get, and we agree to try them out.

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Nick is extremely excited by the idea from the off, which I take as a massive compliment until I remember we are doing a January health kick and he’s just thrilled to be allowed to eat crisps.

He tears open the packet with far more enthusiasm than he’s ever approached me with, and for a while I wonder if I should leave them to it, as I feel a bit like a third wheel.

The crisps themselves taste, you know, fine. Like crisps, really.

They have a bit of a kick afterwards, thanks to the chilli but otherwise whatever.

We sit and wait for them to take effect.

Any second now I’m presumably going to go so wild with desire that I won’t even mind Nick’s t shirt being covered in crisp crumbs.

I can only hope my heart rate only rises to super sexy levels rather than actually dangerous.

Any second now, baby, any second now... absolutely nothing will happen.

The results were definitely much more boooo than oooh, in that they were completely non-existent.

Still, you’re never really going to regret eating crisps, are you, so no harm done.

And at least they weren’t oyster flavour.