Birds Eye Fish Fingers | Chewsday Review
So last week’s fish fingers are no longer available. But maybe these Birds Eye Fish Fingers are okay? They’re not fish shaped but let’s see how they go in today’s Chewsday Review…
- Hoki (fish), water, wheat flour, canola oil, maize flour, wheat starch, maize starch, salt, sugar, wheat gluten, yeast, acidity regulators (450, 451)
- Hoki is a fish used widely in manufactured fish products, and is the fish used in McDonalds Fillet of Fish. The fish contributes 51% of the final finger.
- Common allergens include: fish, wheat/gluten
- This product contains n-3 fatty acids (previously known as omega 3 fatty acids). These are important fatty acids for heart and brain health, amongst other things. Here the 122mg per serve is three times the general recommendations for daily n-3 intake for 1-3 year olds and double the daily recommendations for older children. This is helpful if you’re serving fish twice a week.
- Sodium intake is reasonably low for a processed/crumbed product at 248mg/100g (although this isn’t a low salt product overall). It is lower than most chicken nuggets.
- Low sugar content at 2.1g/100g, but this is mostly added sugar so not a true positive.
- Saturated fat is low at 0.8g/100g. This is a big positive.
- Dolphin safe.
- This fish finger is only 51% fish, meaning that the other 40% is primarily from starchy or floury fillers. This just means that you’re not getting a lot of high quality ingredients for what you pay for.
- ’I’ll sing you a song, a song of the sea’ Need I say any more.
- 4 star health rating, which is less than the fish nuggets from last week. Crazy!
- No artificial colours, flavours or preservatives. Yep, great.
- These are a pretty reasonable option for a fish finger. One of the higher omega 3 contents, which is a big benefit. As always, a whole piece of fish is a better alternative.
- I also don’t mind the Jamie Oliver Fish fingers or the Birds Eye Crumbed Whiting fillets for a pre-packaged fish product as an easy dinner on those nights you need something simple.
The composition of food products changes regularly. The nutritional values of the products in this Chewsday Review were correct at the time of publishing.
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