On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:07:47 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

The Medway Handyman wrote:
geoff wrote:
In message , Bruce
writes
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:44:20 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Owain wrote:
On 17 Jan, 20:31, Andy Champ wrote:
I have no personal knowledge of how this works in DIY. But in
the food industry, many supermarket own brand items are top
quality products that are sold at well below the price of the
exact same product bearing the brand of its manufacturer.
And many are not. Which is why, for example, Kelloggs make a
point of stating "We don't make cereal for anyone else".
However that does not necessarily mean that Portable Foods
Manufacturing Co Ltd does not supply both Kelloggs and ANOther.
Even if Portable Foods etc is wholly owned by Kelloggs.

Owain

indeed. I simply cannot tell the difference between kellogs and
Waitrose 'own brand' apart from the color of the box, and the price.

Poor you!

In my University days I had a friend who was studying medicine. He
was involved in a research project that involved establishing the
nutritional content of breakfast cereals, including corn flakes.

In his own time he carried out the same tests on the packaging, and
found that it had a greater nutritional value than the contents. ;-)


I'm sure that Snopes has something to say on that one

Sounds like an urban myth to me as well

Although as a general point, the moment you read something is "fortified
with vitamins and iron" or something similar, you know it roughly
translates as naff all natural nutritional value is left in this product!


All the nutritional value and flavour is concentrated in the bright
orange-coloured coating that is sprayed on the corn flakes. It
contains sugar, salt, malt and assorted B vitamins.

Without that coating they would be a brownish grey, looking and
tasting like cardboard. and not as nutritious.

Apparently there's more fibre in cardboard. ;-)