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Which meat sausage is better?
The expensive branded product or the cheap discount alternative?
A test reveals that the differences are often not big at all.
Munich - Even though the trend is moving more and more towards vegetarian and vegan, meat and sausage are still firmly on the menu for many Germans.
This often includes meat sausage.
They are available in a wide variety of designs and variations, but also expensive and cheap, although you should only eat a small amount of them a day.
But what is better?
The more expensive branded meat sausage or the cheaper alternative?
The meat sausage test: These products were compared
ZDF WISO
tested this
and compared six meat sausages with each other.
The products ranged in price from 58 cents per hundred grams to up to 1.60 euros per hundred grams. To get one thing straight: one of the cheap discount sausages was particularly convincing to the experts.
These products have been tested:
“Alnatura”: 1.60 euros/100 g
“Wilhelm Brandenburg”: 1.50 euros/100 g
“Herta”: 0.80 euros/100 g
Penny “Mühlenhof”: 0.75 euros/100 g
Lidl “Dulano”: 0.61 euros/100 g
Aldi “ham meat sausage”: 0.58 euros/100 g
Discounter meat sausage convinces experts: “Impressed right from the start.”
In the expert test, with sensory professor Manfred Winkler, the smell and taste of the sausages were tested.
One product in particular impressed the expert: “What really impressed me about sample 6 was the bite that impressed me right from the start,” explains Winkler.
The “Dulano” sausage from Lidl is hidden behind sample six, so the expert puts one of the cheapest products at the top.
However, the sensory professor is less impressed by one of the expensive branded sausages.
Because in last place he sees the meat sausage from “Wilhelm Brandenburg”.
“But you also have to say that the differences in quality are actually relatively minimal,” says Winkler.
Meat sausage is popular, but which products are actually better, expensive or cheap?
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This is perhaps also a reason why passers-by on the street make completely different decisions.
Because they choose the meat sausage from “Wilhelm Brandenburg” for the top spot.
This is followed by Penny and “Herta”.
Lidl and “Alnatura” share fourth and fifth place.
Last place goes to the cheapest sausage from Aldi.
Quality of all meat sausage products is convincing: “Requirements for top quality”
But it wasn't just the taste and smell that were tested on the sausages.
All products were convincing in the quality and bacteria check.
“The meat quality of all six meat sausages was very good, all products met the requirements for top quality,” explains food technician Claudia Poßberg in the program.
In addition, no bacterial residues were detectable in any of the products.
However, this can happen again and again; a sausage was recently recalled due to salmonella.
As stated, the type of meat for each of the sausages also consisted only of pork.
A final comparison is made with the types of husbandry.
The four-stage system from 1: stable to 4: premium is currently voluntary, but can provide a rough guide and can be found on many products in the supermarket.
Many people pay attention to these forms of posture.
Aldi is also trying to do more to promote animal protection.
Milk varieties from farming methods one and two are now banned here.
The three cheap products from the discounter are each printed with the husbandry form 2.
“Alnatura” meets the requirements of the EU organic regulation and is therefore comparable to the fourth level.
A request from
WISO
to “Wilhelm Brandenburg” shows that the meat consists of levels one and two.
“Against this background, there is no corresponding, uniform award,” the statement says.
“Herta” does not respond to WISO’s request, so the type of husbandry remains unclear.
Product tests are always carried out and are a good way to test the quality and taste of a food.
For example, peach teas were tested and an expensive product was convincing.
Completely different in the mineral water test.
The winner here was a cheap product.