Mint Sauce.

geordie_joe

RHYSDAD wrote: »

Just to back this post up look at all the other c rap they put in it as well.....

What c rap would that be?

Steve059

penrhyn wrote: »

Make your own its far nicer.
Grow some in a large pot.

Pick, chop, little vinegar hot water and sugar........lovely.

I couldn't agree more. I used to grow and make my own.

But, if you're now divorced, retired and living in a first floor flat, and a bunch of fresh mint costs 70p, then 24p jars of mint sauce are a necessary evil.

maman

Fascinating discussion. I don't like Mint Sauce with lamb but I have used Asda SP to make a raita type dip with yogurt.

Looking at the ingredients on SP it has loads of mint (22%?) but the 'Chosen by You' only has 5% dried mint and then I suppose the flavour is made up with the spearmint oil.

It seems if it's mint you're after, you don't get what you pay for!

anotheruser

Are you sure you have that right?
I looked at my SP mint today which says 2.5% mint.
I BOUGHT a Tesco value mint which does indeed say 29%, but reconstituted.

But then you get this when buying prepared ham for sandwiches.
"reformed" is not the same as "reclaimed"...

Maybe I will tweet each store and ask.
Tesco were very helpful when I asked what "shingled egg" was in a sandwich once. Surely egg is egg. (it turned out to be the way it was laid on the sandwich!)

skitler

ive got colemans int fridge and as posted its 25% but it don't say owt about dried or otherwise, as an ardent Tesco shopper id have got colemans on spesh offer, don't use it much now as cant afford lamb:o.

liked the thread thought its mint:rotfl:

regards :beer:

stephen77

dried mint = will be concentrated down. eg 300g of fresh mint to get 100g of dried mint. I have no idea of the ratio though so I could be along way off.

Reconstituted. - it could be have been dried as well as frozen. If you have 100g of fresh mint. It gets dried down to say 30g of mint. They can add 70g of water back to the mint. If they add 71g it will be 100g of reconstituted mint + 1g water.
Again I am not sure on the ratio.

Essentially fresh mint is very easily bruised. Very short shelf life ingredient where the use by date really is the use by date.
Lots of mint come from Isreal so you loose frehs life very quickly. Hence its good to dry or freeze dry etc.

skitler

stephen77 wrote: »

dried mint = will be concentrated down. eg 300g of fresh mint to get 100g of dried mint. I have no idea of the ratio though so I could be along way off.

Reconstituted. - it could be have been dried as well as frozen. If you have 100g of fresh mint. It gets dried down to say 30g of mint. They can add 70g of water back to the mint. If they add 71g it will be 100g of reconstituted mint + 1g water.
Again I am not sure on the ratio.

Essentially fresh mint is very easily bruised. Very short shelf life ingredient where the use by date really is the use by date.
Lots of mint come from Isreal so you loose frehs life very quickly. Hence its good to dry or freeze dry etc.

so what you are saying is, there is mint in both, but you don't know how much.


regards:beer:

stephen77

skitler wrote: »

so what you are saying is, there is mint in both, but you don't know how much.


regards:beer:

I do not know how much fresh mint had to picked in order to make a jar of each.
The label does not tell you that either. This is where some of the above people are thinking ASDA is ripping them off compared to Tesco.

katyboo123

Back to what the OP says, I think it is amazing how much difference there is in the ingredients. I always try to make my own, but like some people have said, 24p or whatever for a jar makes it seem illogical to spend more on making your own. Hm. I will be checking labels even more closely now - I think we all get a bit lax in doing so from time to time. Thanks!

skitler

stephen77 wrote: »

I do not know how much fresh mint had to picked in order to make a jar of each.
The label does not tell you that either. This is where some of the above people are thinking ASDA is ripping them off compared to Tesco.

asda all over that ripping folk off.

Tesco a top quality value for money store where every little helps,
even in mint sauce:j:dance:

regards:beer: