Why do some name brand items taste differently than off-brand items, yet they have the same ingredients?
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Egg has one ingredient, egg, baked egg, poached egg, scrambled egg, hardboiled egg, softboiled egg, fried egg, egg casserole, they all only use egg, but they are all made in different way, that gives them different taste and texture.
Same is true here, even with the same ingredients, how they are used matters very much, as well as the quality of the ingredients, which is one of the primary reasons off-brand items are cheaper, they use cheaper ingredients, cheaper does not mean worse, but there is a lower quality check to hit.
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Still haven’t been able to find a good cinnamon oat cereal as good as Kellogg’s Cinnamon Mini Buns. Every once in a while, I see a cereal with the same main ingredients as Cinnamon Mini Buns, but it doesn’t taste the same. But occasionally it does happen, like Bill and Ted’s Excellent Cereal, and Croonchy Stars… Also, why can’t I find anything that tastes like Golden Grahams anymore? That commercial used to be ubiquitous.
Still haven’t been able to find a good cinnamon oat cereal as good as Kellogg’s Cinnamon Mini Buns. Every once in a while, I see a cereal with the same main ingredients as Cinnamon Mini Buns, but it doesn’t taste the same. But occasionally it does happen, like Bill and Ted’s Excellent Cereal, and Croonchy Stars… Also, why can’t I find anything that tastes like Golden Grahams anymore? That commercial used to be ubiquitous.
Food scientist here.
Same ingredients, but not same formula and/or brand of ingredients. This is also what separates an expensive muffin from something you buy off at the supermarket in plastic packaging.
To give a concrete example, Lays only uses specific varieties and cuts of potatoes based on the sugar/carb/protein/color/acidity/weight raw & cooked or other standardization for consistency.
Off-Brand company can copy the exact formula to a tee, but they can’t get the exact flavor, crispness, fat retention, cut dimensions, weight per piece, length, and color if they don’t know the exact potato variety.
And trust me when I say some of these companies pay a lot of hush money to keep their ingredients more secret than the President’s nuke codes.
Another example is the “natural flavorings.” Different flavor companies have different formulas for what “natural apple flavor” tastes/smells like, so this also affects the overall finished good.
Food scientist here.
Same ingredients, but not same formula and/or brand of ingredients. This is also what separates an expensive muffin from something you buy off at the supermarket in plastic packaging.
To give a concrete example, Lays only uses specific varieties and cuts of potatoes based on the sugar/carb/protein/color/acidity/weight raw & cooked or other standardization for consistency.
Off-Brand company can copy the exact formula to a tee, but they can’t get the exact flavor, crispness, fat retention, cut dimensions, weight per piece, length, and color if they don’t know the exact potato variety.
And trust me when I say some of these companies pay a lot of hush money to keep their ingredients more secret than the President’s nuke codes.
Another example is the “natural flavorings.” Different flavor companies have different formulas for what “natural apple flavor” tastes/smells like, so this also affects the overall finished good.
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