You Can't Coach That

Heinz Spaghetti Sweetener For The Kids

My Dad brought this to my attention recently. He was having Heinz spaghetti on toast for breakfast from the small (130g) can. Thinking that the taste was not what he was used to he looked at the nutritional information printed on the label and compared it to the contents for the larger (420g) can. He was surprised to see that the small can had 38% more sugar and 27% more sodium than the larger can. On querying Heinz he was told that the cans were manufactured in different factories and the contents were sourced separately.

Could Heinz be taking advantage of children’s liking for all things sweet. After all the likely consumers of the small can of spaghetti may be children. In a time of growing childhood obesity this is not the sort of situation we need.

“You can’t coach that”

Amazing. Gee the companies are sneaky aren’t they.
Different factories and sources mean nothing - they would specify a formula and that’s what would be made.

We buy SPC brand, I’ll have to check it out.

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Just checked, SPC Spaghetti small can (haven’t got bigger to compare)
5g (=5%) sugar, 300mg Sodium - per 100g
What does Heinz have?

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Heinz 130g size has 5.0g sugars and 415mg sodium per 100g while 420g size has 3.6g sugars and 325mg sodium per 100g. So SPC is a little better on the sodium side for the small side.

Who knew Heinz was so sneeky!  Cashing in on the growing epidemic of obesity is wrong.  It’s very sad what these companies will do to make a buck.