Aldi Mayonnaise

aris

Had to vent on this one.

Been buying the product for many years. Stood up to the main big brands - at a fraction of the price.

Bough a new jar last week. It had a new colour label - didn't take much note to be honest.

They've changed the recipe - and it is terrible. They've also changed the name from "Real Mayonnaise" to "Real Mayo". That should have been the clue!

Looking at the ingredients, they've lowered the amount of Rapeseed oil (78% to 70%), and egg yolk (7.9% to 5%).

The resulting product just isn't mayonnaise any more. No flavour, and the texture is much looser and more "watery". Probably because they've added more water and emulsifiers to make it look like mayonnaise - but instead we've got "mayo".

I sent a complaint to ALDI - i'll let you know what they say. If you were a previous purchaser of this product - avoid it.

jaybeetoo

You can take it back to the store for a full refund. They are very good like that.

aris

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81881254#Comment_81881254

It costs 89p. Not really worth my time.

molerat

IMO the supermarket brands don't compare to the named brands. I tried various for a while, Aldi, Lidl, Tesco etc, and found them "OK" but have gone back to the big names.

aris

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81881288#Comment_81881288

Generally id agree but the previous mayonnaise was in par with the branded product.

Mayonnaise isn’t rocket science, and if you compare the ingredients to Hellmans they were almost identical. The new product is disgusting.

Woodstok2000

Just make your own - 4 ingredients, it's cheap and easy and tastes better than anything you can buy.

aris

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81881304#Comment_81881304

CBA 😊

pseudodox

I don't use a lot of mayo but for a while had been buying the Aldi one as it is cheap but always tasted fine for mixing into tuna or potato salad. The last bottle (seem to recall it was Mayo, not Mayonnaise) did taste odd & I eventually threw it out & bought Hellman's. Never checked the change in ingredients. Will not be buying it again for sure.

aris

Really boggles the mind they mess with something as simple as Mayonnaise and think people won't notice.

The simpler the product and input ingredients, the more noticeable any changes are.

aris

Did a bit of research. In order to call your product "Mayonnaise" it has to have 70% fat/oil and 5% chicken eggs in the ingredients.

This modified product has this % of fat and egg - but they still decided to call it 'Mayo' - which gets around the rule.

I can only assume they are testing the waters to see if they can get away with this - then reduce it even further down the line.

MyRealNameToo

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81881423#Comment_81881423

I would be surprised if there is a legal definition of Mayonnaise in the UK, it's not the sort of thing we generally do here. There are some exceptions that do have laws, like chocolate, hence penguin bars are no longer chocolate but can see no evidence for such a law on mayo

There is in the US but thats only that it required to be at least 65% vegetable oil. But then in the US tictacs can be labeled as sugar free despite being 98% sugar because anything with less than 1g of sugar per serving can be labelled as such and given they claim a single sweet is a single serving and one weighs under 1g then its "sugar free" despite being almost all sugar.