Star dish of the summer, with the permission of salmorejo and its cousins, gazpacho is very simple to prepare at home but it is difficult to resist the convenience of buying it ready to drink from time to time. Choose a good supermarket gazpacho It is not easy, because the offer is so wide and with such a disparity in prices that it does not hurt to have help to find the best.
A good starting point to guide us is the selection presented to us by the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU), which usually prepares purchase guides with comparative analysis among the main options of the same product found in supermarkets in Spain.
After analyzing other popular foods such as cooked ham, milk or vegetable burgers, the OCU has updated its ranking of the best and worst gazpachos that can be found in the most common supermarkets in Spain, this time analyzing 32 varieties of different brands.
Which are the best gazpachos (and which are the worst)
To analyze the different gazpachos, within the same category of refrigerated packages, the OCU firstly reviews the labeling carefully to check the ingredients, and then submits them to a Microbiological analysis in laboratory.
Finally, aspects of tastingdetermined by a group of expert professional tasters, who analyze and judge characteristics such as visual appearance, color, texture, smell, taste, aftertaste, etc.
Product | Punctuation | Price |
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Aldi’s Kitchen – Mild Gazpacho | 83 good quality | €1.95/l |
Chef Select (Lidl) Traditional Gazpacho | 82 good quality | €1.19/l |
Alipende (Saving) – Gazpacho | 82 good quality | €1.30/l |
Landlord (Mercadona) – Fresh Gazpacho | 79 good quality | €2.50/l |
Aldi’s Kitchen – Gazpacho | 75 good quality | €2.45/l |
Bio Flavor – Fresh Gazpacho | 74 good quality | €3.50/l |
Alvalle – Original Gazpacho | 72 good quality | €3.68/l |
Landlord (Mercadona) – Traditional Gazpacho | 71 good quality | €1.30/l |
Carrefour Selection – Gazpacho with raf tomato | 68 good quality | €3.45/l |
Hacendado (Mercadona) – Mild Gazpacho brick 3×330 ml | 68 good quality | €1.82/l |
Eroski – Gazpacho | 68 good quality | €1.97/l |
Landowner (Mercadona) – Andalusian gazpacho | 67 good quality | €1.30/l |
Alvalle – Andalusian Gazpacho | 66 good quality | €3.66/l |
Carrefour – Fresh Gazpacho | 63 Medium quality | €2.50/l |
Flavors of La Esteban – Fresh Gazpacho | 63 Medium quality | €3.19/l |
Aldi’s Kitchen – Traditional Gazpacho | 58 Medium quality | €1.69/l |
Carrefour Extra – Gazpacho with fresh vegetables | 58 Medium quality | €2.25/l |
Alvalle – Mild gazpacho without cucumber | 57 Medium quality | €3.69/l |
Chef Select (Lidl) – Fresh Gazpacho | 56 Medium quality | €2.35/l |
Alvalle – Gazpacho | 54 Medium quality | €3.96/l |
Al Punto (Day) – Gazpacho with extra virgin olive oil | 52 Medium quality | €1.49/l |
García Millán – Fresh Gazpacho | 46 Medium quality | €2.76/l |
Bo de Debò – Gazpacho | 43 Medium quality | €3.57/l |
Casa Mas – Fresh Gazpacho | 40 poor quality | €4.03/l |
In this way, we find that the best gazpachos that lead the list are white label products, with the Aldi’s mild variety as the bestwith 83 global points, obtaining the maximum score in all the parameters of the analysis except for labeling, where points have been subtracted for the content of Salt0.80 g per 100 g of product.
Aldi’s mild gazpacho is the best, but master shopping recommends Lidl’s
It is closely followed by the traditional one from Lidl, its great competitor, and it also slips in with the same points, 82, that of the white brand of Savings, which is somewhat more expensive. Slightly below that we find Mercadona’s fresh gazpacho, the one that is most price goes up of all these references.
Precisely because of the price and the salt content, the OCU recommends the Lidl Chef Select traditional gazpachowhich has obtained practically the same scores as Aldi’s, but has a lower price, €1.19 per liter compared to €1.95 per liter from Aldi.
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in the three last positions From this comparison we see three references of own brands such as García Millán, Bo de Debò and Casa Mas, the only one that fails with 40 points, “poor quality”. They are also some of the more expensiveso it is shown that the price does not always indicate the best quality.
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