Vegan bread spread in the test: questionable ingredients found

Spread (vegan) tested by Stiftung Warentest: This is how vegan bread spreads perform.

Lead and nickel have even been found in some.

• Stiftung Warentest * examines various bread spreads (vegan) in a test. 

• All products tested are vegan.

• One spread was far behind in the test by Stiftung Warentest. 

Kassel

- The

examined various bread

 (

)

in one of their last tests

.

All of the 25 products tested were identified as

.

So they are not only made without meat or fish, as is the case with vegetarian products, but completely without any animal ingredients.

This includes not only obviously animal products such as milk or quark, but also less obvious ones such as honey. 

The products tested could be divided into three categories: mushrooms, lentils and tomatoes and / or peppers.

All

were purchased between November and December of last year. 

Bread spread (vegan) tested by Stiftung Warentest: those were the test-these criteria

In this

by

, each

had to face

six different test categories.

When calculating the overall rating, the sensory judgment category was the most important at 45 percent.

As a basis for the assessment, the experts from

product profiles that had previously been agreed by five trained testers. 

The overall rating for the pollutants test category was influenced by a total of 15 percent.

Each of the

spreads for

tested in the laboratory for substances that are relevant to health.

Among other things, tests were carried out here for metals, pesticides and plasticizers. 

Bread spread (vegan) in the test at Stiftung Warentest: These categories were also part of the test

The

overall grade of the respective

was

influenced second most

in this

by the test category declaration.

In the category that made up 20 percent of the overall rating, each bread spread was examined to determine whether the information was correct.

In this category, the information on the products was also checked and nutritional information checked. 

The nutritional quality of the respective

10 percent of the overall rating.

In this category of the test by

, the fat and salt content was determined in a laboratory and the energy content was calculated.

Some of these values ​​were then evaluated using the reference values ​​of the German Nutrition Society.

In addition, some values ​​were compared with a mean from various spreadable sausages. 

In our test of 25 veggie spreads with the flavors tomato, bell pepper, lentil and mushrooms, we found big differences.

The smell and taste of eight spreads are very good, two are highly polluted.

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Bread spread (vegan) tested by Stiftung Warentest: The packaging of the bread spread was also examined

The last 10 percent in the

consists of packaging and microbiological quality.

In the packaging category,

attention was paid to the correctness of the material labeling

for every

.

In addition, the user-friendliness of the packaging was taken into account and plastic packaging was examined for chlorine. 

Bread spread (vegan) in the test at Stiftung Warentest: A spread (vegan) was far behind in the test

Three bread-spreads (

) made it in the

of

just a satisfactory result.

One

only got a grade of 4.5 in the pollutants test category.

An increased nickel content was detected

in the 

Hot Paprika Vegan Organic Spread from the Kaufland Take it Veggie brand.

Children in particular should keep their hands off this.

Overall, this came in the

by

on a grade of 4.0. 

Bread spread (vegan) in the test: Stiftung Warentest discovers lead in a bread spread

Another bread spread (vegan) from the paprika / tomato category only achieved a sufficient result.

The paprika, zucchini & aubergine organic spread from

only achieved a rating of 3.7.

Too much

detected

in this spread

, albeit less than that of its competitor from Kaufland. 

The third

that was rated sufficient can be found in the mushrooms category.

In this

by

even

detected.

This brought the Carinas Champignon Onion bread spread from Allos Hof-Gemüse to an overall rating of 3.8. 

Bread spread (vegan) tested by Stiftung Warentest: Eleven bread spreads received the grade good

In the tomato and / or paprika flavor, eleven of the 16 bread spreads tested achieved an overall rating of good.

Two articles in this category achieved in the

 of

even a one before the decimal point.

On the one hand, there is the Sisis Spicy Tomato

from Allos Hof-Gemüse and the Basitom Basil Tomato spread from Zwergenwiese's spread on it.   

The

from Allos Hof-Gemüse was only rated in the pollutants category with a grade of 2.8.

In all others, the spread was able to convince with a grade of good or even very good in two categories.

Overall, the spread came with a grade of 1.8.

The spread from Zwergenwiese Streich's drauf

 only achieved the grade of satisfactory in the category of nutritional quality

in the

(Stiftung Warentest examines digital cameras: good cameras have their price *).

But in the overall rating, the vegan spread scored 1.9. 

Bread spread (vegan) tested by Stiftung Warentest: these are the test winners

In the

by

a

so well

in the lentils taste category

that it even got a one before the decimal point.

The bread spread Belugalinse Balsamico from Tartex Linsen Liebe just missed the rating very well with a grade of 1.6, but was nevertheless the best

in the

. 

In the

, none of the products achieved a rating of 2.5 in the mushrooms flavor category.

Only two of the five spreads were rated as good at all.

The

in this category is Alnatura's mushroom pie.

At least in the categories of packaging and microbiological quality, it scored very well. 

From Lucas Meier

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has recently been put to the test at Stiftung Warentest.

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