Recipe is not just the ingredients, it’s also the process. They probably use less oil in the process or different temperatures.
>Tests of popular popcorn brand Propercorn have revealed that packets of one flavour contained 70% more fat than stated on the packet.
>The company’s Lightly Sea Salted variety was sent off for independent testing in December and found to contain 25.3g of fat per 100g serving.
>That’s more than a quarter of the total weight and 70% more than the amount advertised on the packaging of 14.5g per 100g.
Annoying thing about these is they will quote 44 calories and then write “per 1/10 of a pack”
They’ll have been lowering the salt and/or oil used to make it to ensure it’s HFSS compliant. If they can bring it under the guideline for HFSS (high fat, salt and sugar) food, they won’t need to worry about the legal limitations on advertising and promotions currently being put in place.
What a silly question. Any change to the process is a “new recipe”. You big fanny.
Well they could use a different oil.
Quite a different richer taste if you buy popping corn cobs and do it at home using homemade pork lard or lamb tallow.
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No marketing team is good enough to make me eat another bag of their popcorn.
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Probably a different oil, or cooked in a different way.
did you mean recipe?
Hi There, one thing I can say with 100% confidence. This product is allowed to be served in schools. Minimum additives, salt, sugar etc.
that is why they called it propercorn, and no i do not work for them , just in education
An ingredient list and a recipe are different things.
If I give the average person flour, oil, water, and salt, they won’t be able to make pasta.
It’s because their [old recipe was found to contain more fat than specified in their nutritional guide](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/propercorn-found-contain-twice-much-9990476).
Recipe is not just the ingredients, it’s also the process. They probably use less oil in the process or different temperatures.
>Tests of popular popcorn brand Propercorn have revealed that packets of one flavour contained 70% more fat than stated on the packet.
>The company’s Lightly Sea Salted variety was sent off for independent testing in December and found to contain 25.3g of fat per 100g serving.
>That’s more than a quarter of the total weight and 70% more than the amount advertised on the packaging of 14.5g per 100g.
Annoying thing about these is they will quote 44 calories and then write “per 1/10 of a pack”
They’ll have been lowering the salt and/or oil used to make it to ensure it’s HFSS compliant. If they can bring it under the guideline for HFSS (high fat, salt and sugar) food, they won’t need to worry about the legal limitations on advertising and promotions currently being put in place.
What a silly question. Any change to the process is a “new recipe”. You big fanny.
Well they could use a different oil.
Quite a different richer taste if you buy popping corn cobs and do it at home using homemade pork lard or lamb tallow.
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No marketing team is good enough to make me eat another bag of their popcorn.
Their barcode is a proper pain in the ass to scan