Nina's Blog - Monday 13th October 2025

Monday 13th October 2025, 10:16

Yesterday I went to Lidl to buy some snack food. One of the things I bought was a bottle of remoulade (from K-Salat) to spread on crackers with cheese. I was surprised to find that it tasted very sweet, much sweeter than the remoulade I buy in Norway (from Mills).

It's much too sweet.

So I checked the assay label and found that it is 11% sugar! The Norwegian one is 7% and it is the sweetest remoulade one can find on oda.com, Norway's biggest online grocer; the othersre 3% or less.

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JSul3 · 70-79

Always read the labels.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@JSul3 There's usually no need to read every label, not in Norway anyway. The name of the thing is usually enough to say what it will be like there, other countries seem to have generally more deceptive labelling and almost always more sugar.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@ninalanyon I take it Norway has strict laws that manufactured-food labels must be complete, whatever the ingredients? (As in the UK.)

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@ArishMell Yes, Norway adheres to EU labelling regulations. The labels are pretty much the same over the whole of the EU and list the ingredients and the nutritional values such as energy, fat (saturated and unsaturated), total carbohydrate, protein, sugar, salt per 100 g.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@ninalanyon The UK kept them - apart from anything else, simplifying the labels would not do anything useful but would make it even harder to sell the foods in the EU.

How many customers bother to read them, is another matter, except where necessary to cope with some medical condition like an intolerance or allergy.