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Originally Posted by DarthInsinuate

actually, i didn't understand it, can some one explain without mentioning percentages, i don't do maths

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It says that the product wieghs 150g and is all pork, then the water contained in the pork is removed and the product wieghs less so there for what you started with is 8% more than you have now.

this however is heavily flawed

He said 30g or the pork is water, therefore it's not pork :whistling
Also by definition alone you can't get more than 100%, unless you're a sportsman who always goes out there and gives it 110% :01:

Jonno :cool: %

huh?

Actually having thought about it, there are other ingridients too, spices, herbs, flavours etc, they are'nt part of the pork :huh:

Jonno :cool:

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Originally Posted by Jon L. Obscene

Actually having thought about it, there are other ingridients too, spices, herbs, flavours etc, they are'nt part of the pork :huh:

Jonno :cool:

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Your point being? :unsure:

Well if there are other ingridients that are not part of pork, yet pork takes up 108% of the ingridients then where are the others? That would mmean there is -8% spices etc :blink:

Jonno :cool:

Just read my previous post :rolleyes:

you're confused.

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"The UK Food Labelling Regulations 1996 require that most pre-packed foods have a quantitative ingredient declaration for major ingredients. These are normally expressed as a percentage and must be expressed in terms of the ingredients at the "mixing bowl" stage.

If water is lost during processing (due to drying in the case of salami) then the sum of the ingredient weights will be greater than the final product weight. A simple example is tomato ketchup, which contains 120 per cent tomatoes. "

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The spices etc are added in with the pork, water comes out stuff binds together. Because they have to state what is in thier in the mixing bowl stage they use that weight of pork(ie the weight before its been tampered with)

Yes I am confused, cos there is no such thing as 108%, whatever way you look at it, 108% does not exist :huh:

Stupid labels :angry:

Jonno :cool:

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Originally Posted by Jon L. Obscene

Yes I am confused, cos there is no such thing as 108%, whatever way you look at it, 108% does not exist :huh:

Stupid labels :angry:

Jonno :cool:

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Did`nt this bloke make something that added up to 106%. :01:

http://archerpelican.typepad.com/tap/ww-gene.jpg

Since it's been explained that the percentages on the label are calculated from the weights of the original ingredients at the mixing bowl stage and not when they are condensed at the packaged stage I don't see what's so difficult to comprehend.