Asda ready meal contains 1842 calories

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

berbastrike wrote: »

This should be banned!

it's the emporium. It is probably the closest their customers come to real food.

peachyprice

Cornucopia wrote: »

Makes more sense to see it for myself first.

Oh, definitely

And even if the pack in store says the same, doesn't mean the maths is right.

I fact looking at the figures again, it looks like someone, somewhere has worked out the 100g/1kg value of the meal and forgot to divide it down for the 361g pack size.

1842/1000x361=664kcal, which would be pretty much spot on.

Case solved!

daytona0

peachyprice wrote: »

It's 361g for the entire meal and says 'Serves 1' on the box, can't see where you're getting 4 portions from.

Ah, I was going off an earlier post which was on here. No big deal.

Feral_Moon

peachyprice wrote: »

That still wouldn't account for a meal with that high a calorific value.

100g of factory produced shortcrust pastry is 470kcal

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-webstore/landing/home.shtml#/product/910000447548

That pie has 49g of pastry in it (29% of 155g) = 230kcal.

It's a mistake.

Puff pastry has a far higher percentage of fat content.

peachyprice

Feral_Moon wrote: »

Puff pastry has a far higher percentage of fat content.

What has puff pastry got to do with it? The pie in this ready meal is shortcrust. Evenso:

Puff pastry has 5.6 calories per g
Shortcrust has 4.4 calories per g

If it were puff pastry the pastry element would still only be 274 calories. Not enough to make the meal 1842 calories.

It's a mistake, the science and maths don't lie.

Feral_Moon

peachyprice wrote: »

What has puff pastry got to do with it? The pie in this ready meal is shortcrust. Evenso:

Puff pastry has 5.6 calories per g
Shortcrust has 4.4 calories per g

If it were puff pastry the pastry element would still only be 274 calories. Not enough to make the meal 1842 calories.

It's a mistake, the science and maths don't lie.

Only the base is shortcrust. It has a puff pastry top. And how do you know how many calories it contains? I could make you two identical dishes but one could have double the calories than the other and you wouldn't know unless you had a list of exact ingredients by which to calculate.

In fact, 20% of the pie consists of puff pastry, so I suggest you recalculate as that pie is almost 50% pastry!!

peachyprice

Feral_Moon wrote: »

Only the base is shortcrust. It has a puff pastry top. And how do you know how many calories it contains? I could make you two identical dishes but one could have double the calories than the other and you wouldn't know unless you had a list of exact ingredients by which to calculate.

In fact, 20% of the pie consists of puff pastry, so I suggest you recalculate as that pie is almost 50% pastry!!

Yes, apologies, the top is puff, I missed that.

So that's another 100 ish calories (can't be bothered to do the sums right now).

Still isn't anywhere near 1842 calories, more like 700.

As for the calories in pastry, it's pretty much a set value, if you alter the proportions of fat to flour it, well, isn't pastry anymore.

And as for this:

And how do you know how many calories it contains? I could make you two identical dishes but one could have double the calories than the other and you wouldn't know unless you had a list of exact ingredients by which to calculate.

What a ridiculous argument, so you think ready meals aren't churned out to the exact same recipe time after time? How do you think they get the info to put on the back of the pack? Or is there a chef in Asda making these meals up fersh every day ad hoc? :rotfl:

Cornucopia

1842 calories is a lot. (Isn't nearly the entire daily intake for a woman?)

As a comparison, the biggest meals at KFC come in at 1300-1400 calories.

dodger1

I have a cornish pasty in front of me, 135g weight,

369 calories
22g fat
10.3g saturated fat
1.1g salt

Based on that I'd say the numbers are correct. Anything with pastry in shops seems to have very high calories and fat. Having said that, one quarter of that pie (serves 4) is perfectly acceptable as part of your diet.

martinsurrey

Meal is 361g

broken down as
80g peas
126g mash
155g pie

Peas are 92cal per 100g (not much to vary this much)

Mash is 95cal per 100g (with a 10% non potato content)

which gives a total none pie calories of the meal of 193 calories, which leaves 1649 to get from a 155g pie.

Pure butter is 730cal per 100g so even if the pie is just a 155g lump of butter we are STILL 520cal short.

Maths and facts dont lie.

Its a mistake.