magazine in the November issue What to choose? compares the nutritional quality of entry-level products to their brand-name equivalents.
Should we choose branded products to eat well in the supermarket? At a time when inflation is affecting the country, the magazine What to choose? (1) wanted to know if entry-level items are actually less healthy than their branded counterparts. After conducting a comparative study, our partners found that the economic options are not always worse than their more expensive equivalents.
“No less recommended” recipes
The magazine of the French Consumer Union compared the labels of twelve food categories, such as biscuits, mayonnaise, jams, brioches or even frozen pizzas. To do this, two criteria were taken into account: Nutri-Score (amount of saturated fatty acids, sugar, salt, fiber) and undesirable industrial ingredients, including the presence or absence of additives. Taste, a more subjective criterion, was not taken into account.
Race results: “In two-thirds of the food families evaluated, at least one first-price product recipe was recommended no less” than the big brand products. Lasagna Lidl: are thus “carefully identical Married, the French Consumer Union notes. It’s not surprising, they come from the same factory.”
Some budget products are even better than branded ones. This is the case, for example, with Lidl’s €2.90 brooch getting a better rating than Harrys brand at €4.23.
The best option is to prepare raw products
These results do not mean that “products low price are of good quality,” the authors say, but they find that “mid-range brands are not above reproach.”
If it is therefore possible to spend less without “necessarily compromising nutritional quality”, the magazine nevertheless reminds us that none of these “premium products are labeled organic or ‘pesticide-residue-free'”. And insists. “cooking raw or minimally processed foods at home” remains the best way to balance budget and health.
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(1) The entire surveyUFC What to choose? can be found in the November issue, on newsstands now.
Source: Le Figaro
