Food products we are being seriously deceived about
Nothing is what it seems, including food. Because it still happens shamefully often that we think we’re buying a certain product, only to discover that it’s a case of false advertising. It can make me personally very angry.
And I’ve listed the worst cases for you. Maybe you were already aware of them, or perhaps I’m bursting your bubble now. Because no matter how expensive that truffle oil looks, there’s a good chance no real truffle was involved…
1. Truffle oil
Albert Heijn has covered itself well by now; its truffle oil is called olive oil with truffle flavouring. Better, because it doesn’t contain a single piece of truffle — just flavouring. The one from Viaviv does a little better… It contains 0.5 per cent dried summer truffle. Always check the ingredients list, because there’s a good chance you won’t even reach one per cent.
2. Hummus
That Maza hummus is delicious, isn’t it? And yet it tastes very different when you make hummus yourself. Understandably so, when you know that this variety contains only 51 per cent chickpeas. The Albert Heijn own-brand version contains a little more: 57 per cent. And if you go for the AH Terra variety, you’re ‘already’ at 70 per cent. So here too, take a good look at the ingredients list…
3. Wasabi
I don’t think this is much of a well-kept secret anymore: by now, most people know that the ‘wasabi’ you get with takeaway sushi is simply coloured horseradish. Unless you eat at one of the better Japanese restaurants, where they do serve real wasabi — and you can taste the difference immediately.
4. Albert Heijn own-brand surimi crab salad
They’d be better off leaving out the word ‘crab’, because only 2.7 per cent of the entire tub is crab — and 48 per cent is surimi. Understandable, given that crab is considerably more expensive… But then why not leave it out altogether?
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