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Edgell Snack Time tins | Chewsday Review

It can be so hard to find nutritious protein foods for kids who struggle with meats. Tinned or cooked beans are great replacements, but sometimes they can be a little bland. Baked beans are great, but they tend to be pretty salty. Edgell have just released a range of small cans of flavoured beans. We tried them this week and today’s Chewsday Review features Chick Peas with Zesty Vinaigrette.

Ingredients

Positives

The saturated fat and sugar are well within healthy guidelines. Yes, there’s a teeny bit of sugar added to this but it’s hardly anything.
Sodium content is also within healthy guidelines at 271mg/100g. This is similar to salt reduced baked beans (which you know I love to recommend).
Decent amount of dietary fibre per can, at 2.9g. This provides 21% of a young child’s fibre requirements and 16% of an older child’s fibre requirements.
Good source of plant-based protein with the small tin providing 50% of a young child’s daily protein requirements and 36% of an older child’s requirements. Remember that most Aussie kids get wayyyyyy more protein than they need, so this is rarely an issue.
These chick peas seem to be softer than some of the other brands. They were super easy to squash, which makes them a decent option for toddlers (obviously always supervise and only offer if your child can manage similar textures already).
Convenient! I now have a tin in my bag for emergencies, and they don’t even need to be drained once you open them.

Negatives

Marketing

”All natural ingredients” this claim is plastered on practically everything at the moment!
”Fibre”. Yes it has fibre. Technically they could still write this, even if it only had a teeny tiny amount of fibre. To be able to say high in fibre A good source of fibre has to have 4g per serving (this has 2.9g per serving).
‘No drain, ready to eat’ This is what got me over the line actually!

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