Stiftung Warentest assesses ready Bolognese

Stiftung Warentest tested ready Bolognese: Many products with a good rating

30.08.2012

If things need to be done quickly, it is not just the housewife who prefers to use the ready Bolognese. Stiftung Warentest has tested 18 ready-made Bolognese sauces with meat, four vegetarian variants and five bag powders for mixing. Uncooled sauces from the glass cut off the best, while the bag powder once the note „inadequate“ was awarded. The results were published in the current issue of the journal „test“ released.

Ready Bolognese from Barilla scores best at Stiftung Warentest
According to the consumer advocates, the ideal bolognese should smell and taste for tomato, Mediterranean herbs and braised meat. Meat and vegetables should be soft and the sauce overall should have a good consistency. In addition, the microbiological quality as well as the pollutant load of the sauces were tested.

There was nothing to complain about in just one product of the 27 sauces tested: the Bolognese sauce from the Barilla glass was awarded the grade „very well“ rated. 13 of the 18 sauces from the jar received the grade „Well“. The sauces of retail chains such as Aldi and Rewe could not score in terms of taste, according to Stiftung Warentest, however, they cut in overall „Well“ from.

In the test of vegetarian bolognaise were two of the five products with the note „Well“ rated. Particularly disappointing is the result of the Bolognese of the Bavarian noodle manufacturer Bernbacher. For the product „Original Italian pasta sauce Bolognaise“ the flavor enhancer glutamate and yeast extract was detected. It is more a salty gravy than an aromatic Italian tomato sauce, according to consumer advocates who rated the sauce as "poor".

Finished bolognese from the bag rated Stiftung Warentest worst
When testing the Tüßenoßen especially the Instantsoße from Aldi Nord was striking. She also got the grade „inadequate“ because of their atypical taste. None of the tested Tüßenoßen was classified as recommended. Two of the instant products were at least with the note „satisfying“ assessed. Overall, the Tute sauces were described as too salty and hardly tomatic in taste. Fortunately, none of the products tested contained any germs or contaminants.

The Bolognese sauces, which performed best in the test, cost between 2.13 and 4 euros, or 5.35 and 10 euros per kilogram. Cheap discounters are offered from 0.79 euros or 1.88 euros per kilo. (Ag)

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