It's a bit of an animal

[Jon L. Obscene]

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

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
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%

Jonno %

[DarthInsinuate]

huh?

[Jon L. Obscene]

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

Jonno

[DanB]

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

Jonno

Your point being?

[Jon L. Obscene]

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

Jonno

[manker]

Just read my previous post

[DanB]

you're confused.

"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. "

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)

[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

Stupid labels

Jonno

[enoughfakefiles]

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

Stupid labels

Jonno

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

[manker]

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.