Unsure from Lay Theme settings if possible Astrid.
Even if you had some Code going through and removing the tags from the HTML, i feel they would still have been outputted initially on page load.
https://laytheme.com/documentation/tags.html
https://www.redefineyourmarketing.com/blog/hidden-text-seo-what-google-thinks#:~:text=There are Google-approved ways,an increase in crawled pages.
A Third-party SEO plugin may have options of non-indexing content but i am not sure of this either sorry Astrid 🤔
Best wishes ⭐️ Richard