Versus
Bachelor's Original mushy peas £1.45 for three
An interesting observation...
I was in Asda and saw these on the same shelf. So I compared the tins....
Hmmmm exactly the same font on the dot matrix labelling of bbe date and batch number. Same sentence structure to the coding. Same style of can.
That convinced me that these possibly came out of the same canning factory or maybe even the same production line.
Sometimes, from that and the reference intake and ingredients list we can tell that two products are identical.
But comparing the ingredients, the e number colouring was different. Also the ASDA percentage peas was 90% compared to 95%
Incidentally, both types of colouring are controversial and banned in some countries.
I usually eat the Batchelors product.
So. I bought both for a comparison.....
Noticeably not the same.
The Batchelors ones were brighter green, artificially so. The Asda ones were greyer and more like chip shop peas. I.e grey and malprocessed.
The Asda ones sat in the tin had a generous centimeter or more of watery pea juice. I discarded that.
About 10% less calories in the Asda ones and less carbs. Possibly down to sugar and water content
The Asda peas actually seemed larger.
Taste test.... Side by side, both my tasting panel could taste that they were different. But both of them agree that either are acceptable. The Asda ones were less sweet.
So. The value range is half the price but acceptable. I'll be stocking up on the value ones. .... 3 tins at a time, unless somewhere else comes up with a better vfm product..
Photos to follow.
thanks.