Not all supermarket puff pastry is equal in terms of nutritional qualities. Find out which ones are doing well, according to the magazine 60 Millions de Consommateurs.
An essential everyday product, puff pastry is ideal for making all kinds of dishes and desserts but also for making a delicious homemade king cake. In its January issue, the magazine 60 Million Consumers made a comparative study of 39 pastas (puff, broken and for pizza) sold in supermarkets. The editorial team used product labels to analyze their composition, their nutritional values and any claims in order to establish a classification.
To choose a quality puff pastry, the magazine advises favoring those that present a very short list of ingredients and who use butter as fat main, and not margarine, palm, rapeseed or sunflower oil. Find out which two puff pastries get the highest score.
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The best supermarket puff pastries
According to the scale established by the magazine, two puff pastries top the ranking with a score of 13.5/20: Franprix pure butter puff pastry (€1.75) whose composition is impeccable (flour, water and concentrated butter) but which has a little too much fat, salt and little fiber. Pure butter puff pastry from the Picard brand (€4.60) gets the same rating and even has a slightly lower salt content. Its price per kilo, however, is a little higher.
As for the bad performers, these are two organic puff pastries which are placed at the bottom of the ranking. We find the Monique Ranou organic ready-to-roll puff pastry (€1.77) with a rating of 7/20 which uses margarine as fat and the pure butter puff pastry from the U organic brand (€2.15) which have saturated fats but also a list of ingredients that is too long.
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