MARS Products

whitegoods_engineer

stephen77 wrote: »

Quite often reduced fat and salt products cost more to make. If they were cheaper to make the products would have changed along time ago

Where's your evidence of this, and does this apply to Mars chocolate bars?

stephen77

whitegoods_engineer wrote: »

Where's your evidence of this, and does this apply to Mars chocolate bars?

I do not know about Mars bars specifically. As I have not got access to their costings. No one on this forum would admit as they are confidential.

However when you do low fat products. Just look at the cost of meats. The higher the vl normally it costs more. For low fat products you will use lean cuts hence more cost.
Salt is very cheap. Using salt replacing ingredients cost more.
If some one has the current and previous ingredient dec I could see where the cost changes might have occurred.
There are times when products may be cheaper. Eg you. Replace fat with water eg mayo.

It can vary from product range to product range

philatio

You don't eat Cadbury products anymore because they were bought out by Kraft. How bizarre.

FLAPJACK

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

This wont solve anything!

All the fatties will do is buy two bars to make up for it!

Thats why Mars Confectionary (and others) are towing the "healthy line", they have nothing to lose....good publicity in that they are being responsible towards their customers.

Plus the added bonus of people buying two instead of one pack...double profit.:T

pulliptears

Along the same lines, !!!!!! have they done to Smarties? Not had them in a few years but DD had a big tube at Christmas and I offered to help her eat them. They are horrible, not at all chocolately, quite dry and generally ick.

Arlandria606

pulliptears wrote: »

Along the same lines, !!!!!! have they done to Smarties? Not had them in a few years but DD had a big tube at Christmas and I offered to help her eat them. They are horrible, not at all chocolately, quite dry and generally ick.

I know they replaced all the colouring with "natural" colours - which is why blue ones disappeared for ages and then came back. I don't know about any changes to the chocolate though.

michael1983l

philatio wrote: »

You don't eat Cadbury products anymore because they were bought out by Kraft. How bizarre.

It is not bizarre at all, I support British institutions and manufacturers and Cadbury was one of those. Kraft initiated a hostile takeover meaning that not all shareholders were happy to sell but they forced it through anyway. Kraft promised to keep certain sites open when they were negotiating the purchase of Cadbury and then immidiatley went back on their word once the sale was complete and closed one of the sites they promised to keep, resulting in many job losses for British people.

On top of this, they are americanising the brand, changing the shap and feel for the chocolate and immidiatley replaced fresh milk used in the chocolate (remember the proud advertisements of a glass and a half of milk in every bar) with powdered milk to reduce the costs.

The products have changed and are poor quality now and the company is an American leech that was just after the superior recipie for its Kraft brand.

SevenOfNine

Does anyone recall Mars bringing out a '30% lower fat' Mars bar some years ago?

Richard and Judy had it on their morning show (that's how long ago it was), it cost more and was smaller. R & J showed the viewers how to get the same result from an 'ordinary' Mars by promptly chopping 1/3rd off the end.

It never really took off (not sure if it even made it nationwide to the shops) after that.

philatio

michael1983l wrote: »

It is not bizarre at all,......
The products have changed and are poor quality now and the company is an American leech that was just after the superior recipie for its Kraft brand.

You stick to the very British Mars products instead then.

stephen77

SevenOfNine wrote: »

Does anyone recall Mars bringing out a '30% lower fat' Mars bar some years ago?

Richard and Judy had it on their morning show (that's how long ago it was), it cost more and was smaller. R & J showed the viewers how to get the same result from an 'ordinary' Mars by promptly chopping 1/3rd off the end.

It never really took off (not sure if it even made it nationwide to the shops) after that.

Lots of the food industry has told the government that reducing fats, sugar etc is not good for business (may cost more, do not eat as well).
But they are under pressure to do this.

Its double edge sword.
People are not happy with the eating quality as mentioned numerous time above if they change to reduce fats and salts, etc.

However the government and newspaper on the other hand will say its there fault people are fat.