In total 77 additives and 90% meat. I think this is flaming ridiculous and in future will buy an unflavoured lamb leg steak and add a tiny bit of homemade mint sauce!!!! Rant over, but check your labels folks!
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It's a lot of ingredients, but most of them are spices or plant powders. The potassium chloride is probably there to reduce the salt content, yeast extract is a flavour enhancer and the gums help to thicken the sauce. Five types of sugar seems like overkill, and I don't think I've ever put sugar in a marinade before. The primary ingredient in most marinades is usually oil, which is more expensive than sugar, followed by acid (vinegar/lemon juice) and aromatics.
(08-05-2024, 12:40 PM)Veggie Wrote: Must have taken you ages to type that lot out! How ridiculous when a few simple chopped mint leaves would do the trick
Was it YS?
Yes it did,while I was grilling the steak,and no it wasn't YS.
I just wonder what made up the 10% that wasn't meat as there was only a thin covering of the marinade?Couldit it have been the water they pumped into it to make it weigh more?
It will make me examine labels in future though.
Supposedly ruminant animal meat is the best for you and some people do better on beef and others on lamb? I personally seem to do better on lamb,and itis more satiating so I eat less and keep the weight off? It could be becauseo of the fat content I suppose,but itis more expensive so I don't know whether I could afford a permanent switch?
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(08-05-2024, 07:32 PM)Veggie Wrote: You should contact Morries and ask them to explain the 10% difference. Maybe they'll send you a voucher for some more.
I think I would rather just do without the additives!
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At the same time as I bought the lamb I bought some flavoured pork loin steaks. On digging them out to cook today I realised they have exactly the same ingredient list and are only 90% meat!
I now wonder whether this is a catch all list of ingredients which lists everything they have in the factory so no one can say that they have an allergy? .......as every ingrdient possible is listed? Pretty sneaky if that is the case!
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I think, legally speaking, they are required to list what's in the sauce and not everything that's handled in the factory. They do have to mention that the factory handles certain ingredients such as nuts and sesame, for allergy purposes. If they do the butchery and packaging in store, I think it's likely that the base marinade is identical for all of the different flavours, and they just wang a bit of mint in there if it's supposed to be minty. 'Flavoured pork loin steak' seems a big ambiguous, why don't they say what flavour it's supposed to be?
(09-05-2024, 12:38 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: I think, legally speaking, they are required to list what's in the sauce and not everything that's handled in the factory. They do have to mention that the factory handles certain ingredients such as nuts and sesame, for allergy purposes. If they do the butchery and packaging in store, I think it's likely that the base marinade is identical for all of the different flavours, and they just wang a bit of mint in there if it's supposed to be minty. 'Flavoured pork loin steak' seems a big ambiguous, why don't they say what flavour it's supposed to be?
Sounds feasible but it had an orangy colour and didn't taste anything like the lamb steak?
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Rant over, but check your labels folks! 
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