Image: Garden Gourmet Cheese & Ham-Style Crispy Twist package showing a vegetarian frozen food product in a clear plastic tray. The green and yellow branded packaging displays a golden-brown breaded cylindrical food item cut in half to reveal a cheese and ham-style filling inside. The package includes a pink “9/10 TASTERS LOVE IT” badge, “QUICK & DELICIOUS” label, and indicates the product is high in protein, a source of fiber, and made with wheat and 100% European soy protein. A Nutri-Score A rating and vegetarian symbol are visible, along with an expiration date of 29/07/2025.
I like that they state it on the package, makes me want to purchase their products more than alternatives with no origin specified for any ingredient.
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But they’re nestle, so its a hard pass for me…
Fair enough, very understandable
Yes but if you look at the big shit companies öile unilever etc. in the food sector you will quickly realise that it is really hard to not buy from one of them. They habe so many sub companies and have their hand in nearly everything.
So do many other brands which are not Nestlé.
For example Taifun (all kinds of Tofu products):
('soy from Germany, Austria and France)
i loooove the tofu filets japanese style from taifun
Unfortunately I’ve never seen this brand in the Netherlands, but I’ll keep an eye out
Unfortunately I don’t know about the availability in the Netherlands but you could also check… https://www.tempehmanufaktur.net/de/faq/
Wir verwenden nur sorgfältig ausgewählte Bio-Rohwaren für die Tempeh-Herstellung. Regionalität und höchste Bio-Qualität ist uns dabei sehr wichtig. Die Sojabohnen für unseren Tempeh stammen von Anbauflächen in Deutschland, Österreich und Italien. Die Süß-Lupinen beziehen wir zum Großteil von Landwirten aus Deutschland. Auch die schwarzen Bohnen kaufen wir so regional wie möglich. Deshalb sind in engem Kontakt mit Landwirten aus der Region, die Anbauversuche mit der Schwarzen Bohne machen. Wir sind sehr stolz darauf, dass wir bereits jetzt einen Teil der benötigten Ware aus regionaler Landwirtschaft beziehen können. Die Berglinsen stammen ebenfalls aus heimischem Anbau.
Translation:
We only use carefully selected organic raw materials for tempeh production. Regionality and the highest organic quality are very important to us. The soybeans for our tempeh come from farms in Germany, Austria and Italy. We source most of the sweet lupins from farmers in Germany. We also buy the black beans as regionally as possible. That is why we are in close contact with farmers from the region who are conducting cultivation trials with black beans. We are very proud that we are already able to source some of the goods we need from regional farmers. The mountain lentils also come from local cultivation.
Sure Garden Gourmet may use European-sourced soy protein, but it certainly uses Water stolen from Africans.
So if you consume vegan products out of ethical reasons: DO NOT EAT THIS NESTLE SHIT!
How many products in a store typically print nutrition-score on the package? Do you ever see products scored a B or lower?
Yes, there are products that score D or E, but it’s all relative to the other products in the same category, so not very practical at the moment.
The nutrition score is a german thing that our nestle lobby minister pushed. Its worthless because it compares the products in arbitrery categories with each others so a nutri score of A on sweets just means that these are the “healthiest” sweets but they are still far worse than something from another category that has a “lower” score. The worst thing is that the categories are weird sometimes so two products that you would think are in the same category sometimmes arent and you cant compare them withoud looking at the category on the package every time.
I’m not sure about Germany, but this particular nutri-score is Dutch. I know, I live there.
I tried many, many vegan meat replacement products, mostly out of curiosity, that garden gourmet line isn’t something I go back to.
