Comparing 3 Scotch Broth Soups ONE NASTY INGREDIENT

How's everyone doing out there? I hope you're all absolutely spot on as always. Now we're going to do a comparison, a soup comparison, Scotch broth. Now I know what You're thinking, it's summer, what on earth are you doing making a soup comparison in summer? Well, it's Fair game, it's fair game in my eyes. So I've been to M&S, a little story, I've been to M&S and Tesco. and I picked up a new Scotch broth from M&S, and I thought we'd do a comparison against another one supermarket and another leading brand, so come and have a look at what I got. So the story begins in M&S, I bought this Scotch broth with lamb and pearl barley—it says it's cosy and comforting, and I Well, I'll do a comparison, and I'll go up against Baxter's Scottish scotch broth, a well A well-known company, isn't it? And while I was in Tesco, I picked this up—Tesco's own Scotch broth, now. There's a significant difference in prices, a big difference, and I'll tell you that right now. So in Tesco, I got Tesco's own scotch broth, 59 pence, I got the Baxter's while I was in Tesco that was £2.20, a significant difference from 59p to 220p, but we haven't tried it yet, and the M&S one was £1.10, so that's somewhat of a middle ground. So let's take a look at the packages. or the tins, right, in no particular order, I always wanted to say that, no, I haven't really, so let's Have a look, let's get them. They've all got ring pulls, which is good, isn't it? They've all Got ring pull, 400 grams for M&S, 400 grams for Tesco's own, and 400 grams for Baxter's. Right, I'll start with the M&S one: it's mixed vegetable soup with lamb and pearl barley, may Contains bones; you can do it on the hob or in the microwave—it's up to you. Got a little traffic. light system on the side, so let's have a look at the ingredients. The allergens are barley and wheat flour in there, so also we've got lamb at four percent, that's what you've got, lamb is four percent percent, any unpleasant ingredients it contains, for allergens including cereals containing gluten C Ingredients in bold. I don't see any nasty ones, so let's take a look at the Tesco Scotch broth, Do we have any spiel on that then? There must be some spiel somewhere. It says vegetables in varying proportions, carrot, onion, potato, garden peas, leek, and swede made using British mutton, there's The allergens include wheat and barley, so we have a mix; we have water vegetables at 22%. We have mutton at four percent, which provides some nutrition; I didn't go through the nutrition details there. If you do it per 100, you get an idea—comparing side by side, per 100 you can take a look at that. and pause it and study it, so British mutton cooked with plum, pearl barley for tenderness and bite, so the Baxter's have a whole spiel about the Baxter's, low fat, no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives, heating instructions, hob or microwave, and we've got A GB sticker, we've got GB stickers on these, let's have a look, a GB stamp, can't see a stamp On the Tesco one, let's take a look at the M&S one—there's a stamp there, different lettering. On the stamps, made in the UK with M&S, lamb from farms in the UK is excluded, which is fantastic. Isn't it, that's the M&S one, so what do we have in here, ingredients, allergen, is barley in the Baxter's one, so we've got carrot, pearl barley six percent, marrowfat peas, potato, we've got Mutton is two percent, and we've got beef—is that 1.5%? I'll have to go get my glasses. Where are they? Let me just get my glasses for a minute. I've got my bins on. Yeah, it's 1.5%, so you're You're getting beef in that one too, are you getting beef in any of the others? I don't think you are, are you? Just getting lamb, yeah, so you're getting mutton at two percent, beef at 1.5%, so that's 3.5%, isn't it? altogether, so that seems less, doesn't it? Paying two pounds twenty for that, two pounds twenty, Cool, right? Let's give them a shake test. So this is the Scotch broth—feels quite thick, that one. Let's go with the Tesco 59p one—that's probably about the same sort of thing. Same as that one, the M&S, so let's take a look at the Baxter's, oh that's much looser, That seems a lot thinner than that one; I would have thought that would have been the thickest. You know, yeah, it's very loose in there, so they've had a good shake. Let's get them open and see. What we've got, all right, so let's open the M&S one, with the ring pull—it works, oh it's full, pretty much full to the top, yeah, wow we'll never see them that full normally, they're always like maybe 10, 10, I was going to say 10 centimeters then, 10 millimeters below the top, let's have A look at the 59p, 59 pence, wow, got some spillage then, splurted up all over me, yeah that one's a a bit lower, the Tesco 59p, not by much, you know, maybe five pence, so the Baxter's, let's have Take a look at this one, yeah, that's really loose in there, isn't it? Probably about 10 mil off the top. And it's like water at the moment, yeah, I'm hoping that's going to thicken up, yeah, £2.20. Right, let's get them into some bowls. I'm going to cook them on the hob; I'm just going to do them now. Slowly on the hob, warm them up, right, let's get them in here. So I'm going to put the Scotch Broth one in this one, so that's quite thick, cool that is, yeah, that's good, good and that. I've got it all out, so remember the Scotch Broth in the one with these on, the M&S one with the Lugs on, so the cheapest one is going in this top one here, so this is the Tesco 59p, that's, that's Probably, yeah, that's thick, a bit lighter in color. I'll bring you down in a minute, and I'll show you the kind of colors and that, and the consistency, but that is, that is, I would Imagine that's the same thickness as that one, and the Baxter's is going in this one on its own. Here, this one's very runny, yeah, that is very runny, yeah, getting some vegetables in me, healthy. vegetables, my body won't know what's going on, it might shut down, it might just stop working, It might stop working; I hope not. Then again, it might start working properly. Yeah, so M&S—this is the 59p, and this one here is the Baxter's, right? Let's get them on, let's go. get them warmed up, so I'm just warming them slowly, so this is the M&S one, gives you an The idea of consistency, yeah, see the veg in there, it's quite, quite large—that's the M&S. This is the Tesco 59p, probably not much difference in consistency compared to the M&S one. I'd say it's a bit lighter in color, and this is Baxter's—look at the big vegetables in here. It looks a bit bigger, but it's still very watery, though, yeah, not as much, yeah, it's quite, well, Quite watery, isn't it? Right, they're all done, so let's get them in the bowl. So this is the M&S. One, quite thick, quite sticky cornflour—I'll check the ingredients; it is quite thick, isn't it? Right, that's everything out, so this is the Tesco's. I did notice as well the ingredients. With this one, there's a lot of powders—onion powder, which I also saw in there. More powders, probably cheaper to put powder in rather than the actual ingredient, I would Imagine, so this is Baxter's, very, very watery, yeah, and this, yeah, there's plenty of Vegetables are in there too, I've noticed—plenty of vegetables, thick, proper whole vegetables. So this is the M&S, yes, vegetables are quite big there, aren't they? Yeah, this is the Tesco. This is the cheapest, 59p—it does look very sort of corny, like it's got corn flour in there. Let's take a look at the ingredients: modified starch, wheat flour, here's the corn flour. concentrated orange juice, I'll take a look at it, I'll examine it in a bit more detail in a moment, Yeah, and this is the Baxter's—this one's very, very runny, isn't it? Very, very runny. You can see the vegetables are quite, quite, quite large; this one has less, less meat in it. Yeah, right, let's try them. Well, thanks for bearing with me on this one—it's a bit of a longer ones, if long videos aren't your thing, you can check out YouTube Shorts instead, and Thanks for watching, and thanks for subscribing. So, glucose syrup in this one—I must admit, when I was pouring them out, I didn't like the smell of that one, that's the cheapest one, so I'm going to, I've got a drink of water; I'll just try it—I'm not doing a blind test. I'm not going to do a blind test; I'm just going to try them as they are. and I bought them myself, no paid reviews, so let's try the M&S Scotch broth one first, We'll get into this—just going to go with one mouthful; I don't like the smell of that one. I don't know, the M&S, it's, it's just got a funny smell, maybe it's that one I could smell. and not this one, I'll have a good, good sniff of that one in a minute, but I don't like the taste of that one; I don't know what it is—what is that? Water, carrots, onion, lamb, hydrogenated pearl barley, potatoes leeks, swede, cornflour, might be the cornflour, I don't like it, so I'll get a drink of water Please let me know your favorite; I haven't done Heinz this time, not picking on Heinz. Let's try this cheap one; it looks pretty stiff too. Oh, I don't like that smell. Neither, oh it's this one, what's that? Maybe it's that syrup, oh no, oh glucose syrup, maybe It's just that, I don't know, but I don't like it; I'm not even trying it anymore—I see why it is. 59 pence, that's terrible, that's not nice, I don't like that one, so yeah, this is the most Expensive. This is Baxter's. This one isn't new. This is new. This one from M&S—I don't like it. So we're down to the last one, oh that's better, wow, oh that's lovely, that is lovely. That Baxter's is the best, it's better than the other two; the second best is M&S, and the last one is that one. First place Baxter's, two pounds twenty—that's lovely. I was thinking maybe it's not gloopy. I was thinking it wouldn't like it because it's not gloopy, but actually I prefer it. It's thinner, and I'm getting a good sense of the vegetables as well; it's well seasoned. Yeah, for me, Baxter's won—it's the most expensive and it's won. Yeah, let me know. Let me know what you think—I'd be very interested in the comment section if you have any. Recommendations, please keep them coming my way. You can send us a picture on the front page of my YouTube account, the community, or you can send it to us on Facebook and Instagram, Bold Foodie Guy, I do like that Baxter's—that's a nine out of ten for me, Tesco. Not eating that, don't like the smell, don't like the taste, it just has a funny smell, not a metallic taste, but it's got something that reminds me of the taste I used to get microwaveable meals years ago, when they first started and used to microwave them and It just tasted like, not plasticky, but there was a funny taste to them, well that's got that taste. and that's not far behind it, the M&S— it's great that it's supporting UK farmers, absolutely Fantastic, but I don't like the taste of that at all; I don't like the taste of the M&S one either. No, I don't like that flavor. What is that? Just take a look—yeast extract. Wouldn't eat that, would you? No, not for me, that's no, so we're all different, it's paradigmatic, just my opinion. Just my opinion, I like the Baxter's; Baxter's is the winner. Please let me know what you think. In the comments, right, take care, all the best, and I'll get back to you on the next one.