Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Baked Beans

All values are grams of sugar per 100g.

Best Product: (2g Sugar) Spc Salt Reduced Rich Tomato
Worst Product: (7.5g Sugar) Aldi Corale.

Spc Salt Reduced Rich Tomato 2
Spc Cheesey Cheese 2.9
Spc Ham 3.3
Spc 3.4
Heinz 4.4
Heinz No Added Salt 4.4
Coles 4.7
Heinz English Recipe 5
Coles Organic 5
Coles Ham Sauce 5.1
Aldi Premium 5.5
Heinz Sweet Chilli 5.6
Heinz Ham Sauce 5.8
Aldi Premium Ham Sauce 5.9
Woolworths Homebrand 6.2
Heinz BBQ Sauce 6.4
Watties BB with Sausages 6.4
Coles Smart Buy 6.7
Watties 7.1
Aldi Corale 7.5

Notes: (i) Both Coles Smart Buy and Aldi Corale are the cheapest brands, clearly aimed at people on lower incomes. Both have very high rates of added sugar. (ii) All can sizes are around 420g. Interestingly, there was variation in sugar content per 100g within the same brand, based on can size. Generally the smaller cans (220g) had higher rates of sugar per 100g.

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