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Big Al's 100% Chicken Breast.. yet it says 70% on the back?

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  • 11-07-2010 8:24pm
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    Rickard
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭


    Sometimes I don't have time to go to a proper store so, SPAR is the closest. They have the Big Al's chicken crap (yea it's frozen ****) but it says 100% chicken breast on the front of all their range.. Yet in ingredient listings on the back of the packages it says 69-70% chicken breast.

    http://www.bigals.ie/products/coated-chicken/hot-and-spicy-fillets
    Look at the ingredients there.


    What's going on here? How can they say 100% on the front and claim it on their website.. then in ingredient listings there's 30% of unknown crap???


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    Sugar Free
    Registered Users Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭Sugar Free


    My understanding is that the chicken used is 100% from chicken breast but of the total amount of ingredients used, the chicken breast only makes up 70%.

    You have to account for the batter/breadcrumbs and various other ingredients in it.


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    Rickard
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭Rickard


    Ok I hope so, it's what's for dinner ! Better not be 30% chicken nipples


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    Agent_99
    Registered Users Posts: 918 ✭✭✭Agent_99


    100% of the 70% is chicken breast as a posed to Chicken leg, thigh nipples or willy :p

    Still wouldn't eat it though. :D


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    tallaghtfornia
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭tallaghtfornia


    Chicken in Big Als burgers are also sourced from Thai farms utter crap


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    GerardKeating
    Registered Users Posts: 7,664 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    Rickard wrote: »
    Sometimes I don't have time to go to a proper store so, SPAR is the closest. They have the Big Al's chicken crap (yea it's frozen ****) but it says 100% chicken breast on the front of all their range.. Yet in ingredient listings on the back of the packages it says 69-70% chicken breast.

    http://www.bigals.ie/products/coated-chicken/hot-and-spicy-fillets
    Look at the ingredients there.


    What's going on here? How can they say 100% on the front and claim it on their website.. then in ingredient listings there's 30% of unknown crap???

    The Chicken is 100% breast, but chicken in not the only ingredient, the batter makes up about 30% of the product.


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    Varik
    Registered Users Posts: 12,540 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    GerardKeating wrote: »
    The Chicken is 100% breast, but chicken in not the only ingredient, the batter makes up about 30% of the product.

    29% of the 30% is 100% Irish Salt.


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    wyndham
    Registered Users Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭wyndham


    Mmmmmmmm, diphosphates.


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    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Not to mention the %age of MSG and fat. :eek:


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    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Birdseye burgers are worse with their "100% irish beef", with the small print on the back trying to explain that 100% of the beef is Irish, and not the burger being 100% beef


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    antocann
    Registered Users Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭antocann


    its 100% chicken breast , but because of the other ingredients its only 70% of total


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    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,382 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    the groutch wrote: »
    Birdseye burgers are worse with their "100% irish beef", with the small print on the back trying to explain that 100% of the beef is Irish, and not the burger being 100% beef
    At least you can read ingredients, with alcohol they do not even list it. And I find one ad deliberately misleading. The bulmers pear ad on TV was going on about misleading ads when itself is totally misleading. It said it has 100% pear juice, but it was pointed out in another thread that this means the juice in it is 100% pear, but it is still loaded with sugar. So technically it could have 1 single drop of pear juice in it and the ad is still legally OK.


    They have some bloody cheek saying other ads are misleading.

    I emailed them about the sugar content in the ciders, I asked a leading question to try and get them to admit it had added sugar, or the content.
    Message/Enquiry: Is the new pear cider made with just 100% pears as described in the adverts. I am a diabetic with allergies to processed sugars but would be able to drink a pure pear cider.

    reply from bulmers
    Hi ****,

    Unfortunately, it's not suitable for diabetics.

    Kind Regards,


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