ASDA GOOD FOR YOU, ROAST CHICKEN CUP OF SOUP
On the 18th February 2010 ‘the Sun' newspaper featured an article in which instant soups came under fire.
In the article Roz Lewis discussed the topic of instant soups stating that ‘we're all under a-salt from instant soup'. The article looked at 6 instant soups across the market and compared their salt content to a small packet (24g) of ready salted walkers crisps (a standard single packet is actually 34.5g). A small bag of walker's crisps contains 0.4g of salt per bag, which is a relatively low amount.
‘The Sun' found that the instant soup they compared contained the equivalent amount of salt of as between 2.5 and 5 packets of crisps. ASDA's Good For You Roast Chicken Soup was featured and it was found that to contain the lowest number of equivalent packets of crisps, which gave it a ‘crisp rating' of 2.5 packets.
Here at ASDA we would just like to reassure our customers that our instant ‘Cup of Soups' meet the FSA targets for salt at 0.5g/100ml and 1.1g/225ml (made as per the instructions on pack), which is way below the maximum target. We have also found that this particular cup of soup has the lowest salt content of all the products in the article, and it may also be worth mentioning that bags of crisps are very small compared to a whole cup of soup and the ingredients are quite different, so this comparison is not really a fair one.
ASDA VEGETABLE SPRING ROLLS
On the 3rd February 2010 ASDA Vegetable Spring Rolls were featured in the Daily Star in a 'ready meals' column where 12 ready meals were 'road tested' by Nigel (whoever he may be).
ASDA were featured twice in this article once with the ASDA Good For You Beef in Black Bean Sauce and once with the ASDA Vegetable Spring Rolls. We were shocked to read that ‘Nigel' quoted our Vegetable Spring Rolls as being "way too high" in saturated fat at 6.9g per spring roll (60g) and consequently giving us a poor rating of 4/10.
We knew this coul
d not be the case due to our strict internal health policy which sets strict limits on the calories, fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt in our products. Therefore we set to work and found that our ASDA Vegetable Spring Rolls actually contain 0.9g saturated fat per spring roll (60g) and 1.5g of saturated fat per 100g. This is a much healthier result and nearly 8 times less saturated fat than we were quoted as having in our Spring Rolls. Consequently we give our Spring Rolls 10/10!
The Daily Star therefore got it wrong. So we would like to ask customers to air on the side of caution, not believing everything they read in the papers!
