Heinz Spaghetti | Chewsday Review
Last week saw the humble baked beans featured on our Chewsday Review and they got top marks from me. This week I thought we'd do another pantry staple- tinned spaghetti. I've chosen the Heinz salt reduced variety. How does this stack up in the nutritional stakes? Let's see...
- Spaghetti (53%), tomato sauce (47%) [tomatoes, sugar, salt, cheese, food acid (citric acid)]
- Common allergens include: milk/dairy, gluten/wheat
- Fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt content all meet healthy guidelines. Sodium content is 30% less than regular tinned spaghetti.
- Convenient, and keeps well in the pantry.
- Less than half of the protein content of baked beans. Lots of people serve tinned spaghetti on toast or in a Jaffle, meaning that the meal provides plenty of carbohydrate but not enough protein
- Fibre isn’t listed on the nutritional panel like it is with baked beans, which suggests a pretty minimal fibre content.
- “1 of your 5+ a day” Each can contains the equivalent of a whole tomato so this is technically true (if you eat a whole tin!) Not quite the same as the 4 serves of vegetables in each tin of baked beans though.
- “No artificial colours or flavours”
- “100% natural pasta” Has anyone ever eaten/heard of unnatural pasta??
- From a nutritional point of view, tinned spaghetti doesn’t really compare well to tinned baked beans. Where baked beans on toast provides a pretty complete meal in itself (carbs, protein, veg, some fat), the spaghetti is really only one part of a meal. Just so I’m clear- there’s nothing particularly ‘undesirable’ about this product, nor is it the best choice out there.
- I’d recommend Heinz no added salt baked beans over the tinned spaghetti. I’d also suggest that regular spaghetti with a vegetable or bolognaise style sauce would be a better option overall.
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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