Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
No pudding? Some Angel Delight or, if you're really pushing the boat out, an Arctic Roll?
Rice pudding! With raspberry jam.
In Praise of Fray Bentos
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Rice pudding! With raspberry jam.
Fnaar
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- Thumberland
From the Grauniad:
Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie
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Ingredients: water, puff pastry (27%) (wheatflour (with calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), margarine (palm oil, rapeseed oil, water, salt, emulsifier (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids)), water, salt), beef (12%), pork kidney (9%), stabiliser (xanthan gum), modified maize starch, wheatflour (with calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), salt, spices, yeast extract, flavouring, tomato paste, barley malt extract, beef extract, chicory extract, sugar, colour (plain caramel), tomato powder, garlic powder.
This is one of the bestsellers in Euromonitor’s shelf-stable category. Water is the first item on the ingredients list, followed by the puff pastry. The meat is only a fifth of this tinned pie. “The thing that struck me about this product was the amount of processed ingredients that you wouldn’t find at home – emulsifiers, stabilisers, malt barley extract. It’s a pie but it also has sugar in it,” says Scott. One pie is supposed to be for two people, but “I don’t know who eats half a pie.” A whole one would deliver 60% of the daily salt intake and nearly 20% of fat.
There is no veg. “Fresh foods rich in bioactive compounds (flavonoids, for instance), including onions, garlic and other foods used in freshly prepared dishes are absent from these products,” says Monteiro. “Being ready-to-eat products, it is unlikely they will be consumed with fresh foods that usually need preparation. On the contrary, one ultra-processed food tends to be consumed with other ultra-processed foods.”
Xanthan gum is not from an exotic tree. It is fermented sugar. The name comes from the type of bacteria used. It is a stabiliser to bind together ingredients such as fat and water that would otherwise repel each other.
Fray Bentos did not respond to requests for comment.
Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie
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Ingredients: water, puff pastry (27%) (wheatflour (with calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), margarine (palm oil, rapeseed oil, water, salt, emulsifier (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids)), water, salt), beef (12%), pork kidney (9%), stabiliser (xanthan gum), modified maize starch, wheatflour (with calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), salt, spices, yeast extract, flavouring, tomato paste, barley malt extract, beef extract, chicory extract, sugar, colour (plain caramel), tomato powder, garlic powder.
This is one of the bestsellers in Euromonitor’s shelf-stable category. Water is the first item on the ingredients list, followed by the puff pastry. The meat is only a fifth of this tinned pie. “The thing that struck me about this product was the amount of processed ingredients that you wouldn’t find at home – emulsifiers, stabilisers, malt barley extract. It’s a pie but it also has sugar in it,” says Scott. One pie is supposed to be for two people, but “I don’t know who eats half a pie.” A whole one would deliver 60% of the daily salt intake and nearly 20% of fat.
There is no veg. “Fresh foods rich in bioactive compounds (flavonoids, for instance), including onions, garlic and other foods used in freshly prepared dishes are absent from these products,” says Monteiro. “Being ready-to-eat products, it is unlikely they will be consumed with fresh foods that usually need preparation. On the contrary, one ultra-processed food tends to be consumed with other ultra-processed foods.”
Xanthan gum is not from an exotic tree. It is fermented sugar. The name comes from the type of bacteria used. It is a stabiliser to bind together ingredients such as fat and water that would otherwise repel each other.
Fray Bentos did not respond to requests for comment.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
An egg has the benefit over a tinned "pie" of having millions of years of evolution fitting it for its role as nutrition.
The "pie" is just over a quarter poor quality pastry and just over a fifth meat. Which means that the defining qualities of a pie - meat in pastry - make up less than half of the ingredients of the tin. The rest is filler.
Reynard
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AndyRM
XOXO
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srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
classic33
Leg End Member
Entirely natural, and good for you.And this is... what?
Protein shake?
AndyRM
XOXO
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- North Shields
Reynard
Guru
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
[QUOTE 5211851, member: 259"]Excellent![/QUOTE]
Or should that be eggcellent
Or should that be eggcellent
NorthernDave
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DCBassman
Guru
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- The lumpy far South West
Guy's an eggspert.
NorthernDave
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classic33
Leg End Member
Possibly, wonder if they last longer though.That seems a bit eggsessive...
