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Can anyone with actual knowledge of the way food labelling/production works, enlighten me as to why Aldi pistachios are higher in calories, lower in fibre, higher in protein, lower in carbs and higher in salt than the Sainsbury's offering?
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Well higher in salt is easy ... They put more salt on it.
Do sainsbury's include the shells?
maybe differences in the way they're roasted. If you've cooked out some of the oils by roasting for longer or at a higher temp then other values will be higher by weight for instance
Well I guess the MASSIVE increase in salt is easily explainable, but the rest confuses me.
Mr Mac might have it though. Obvious I guess when you think about it.
Still, they’re nearly a third of the price and who doesn’t need salt? 🙂
Still, they’re nearly a third of the price and who doesn’t need salt?
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Different sources for the nuts, Jordan Peterson, natural variation in composition and whatever technique is used to estimate the contents.
My bet is different databases for the info. The default book is McCance and Widdowson. There was a new edition of the book out in 2014. I bet one source is from 6th Ed and one from 7th Ed. It’s either that, or the supermarkets have done lab analysis, which can have seasonal or batch variation. But most of the entire food industry uses McCance and Widdowson as reference.
If you're salt content goes up your other nutritionals will change accordingly. It also depends the data source if it's analytical nutri testing or reference docs and calculated using McCance and Widdowson CoFID.
All the cheese we produce is analytical rather than calculated as it helps to know if we're sticking to the law on moisture content.
As above roasting, manufacturing techniques can vary too. There could be quite a few different factors at play. They're typical values for the product and can be taken over a number of tests, usually 5 batches in our case and an average worked out. We typically do this every 3 years when we review specifications.
Pistachios form a different origin would be my guess ...
They're seeds.
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