Spice mix often contains few herbs according to Consumers’ Association | Inland

For example, the meat mixes from Lidl and Aldi consist of three quarters of salt. Jumbo’s spice mix is ​​80 percent breadcrumbs and contains “only 0.04 percent” herbs, says the Consumers’ Association. Calvé’s salad mixes mainly contain sugar and at most 12 percent herbs. In addition, Maggi’s stew mix beef steaks mainly consist of flour.

“The name and the packaging suggest that there are many herbs in these mixes,” says Consumer Association director Sandra Molenaar in an explanation. “That manufacturers actually stuff them with cheap ingredients is misleading and in the case of salt also unhealthy.” The mix for chicken traditional from Verstegen, for example, would already account for more than half the recommended amount of salt per day.

The Consumers’ Association wants stricter rules that prohibit the addition of large amounts of salt. Misleading packaging also needs to be addressed. “Time and again it appears that we cannot leave this to the manufacturers,” says Molenaar.

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