Stockwell (Tesco) Chocolate Spread

[Elderflower14]

Thoughts please.... Looking at the jar.. Without turning it over would you expect it to have hazelnuts in?
All other jars that have hazelnuts say Chocolate Hazelnut Spread on the front. I only realised after I had eaten some on a pancake.... Luckily I haven't had a bad reaction...
Should I ring Tescos and say they need to put Hazelnut on the front of the jar?

@ClearButtons

I would assume all own brand chocolate spread is basically trying to replicate Nutella so would contain nuts

Exactly what I think

The OP wasn’t asking if people with allergies routinely check ingredients. Of course we do. The question was whether without turning the jar over you would expect it to contain nuts. And on the basis that they are using the Cadbury colours and call it a chocolate spread the answer to that has to be no. And this is important as a non allergic person could have bought it and served it in good faith to a person with an allergy.

My default assumption would be that chocolate spread contains hazelnuts as most does.

If you have an allergy or are catering for an allergy you need to check the ingredients of everything.

As the mother of a child with food allergies I am amazed the amount of times we've been given food that has allergens in it because people don't check the label... "Oh I thought it would be fine for him..." (I always ask to check labels myself for anything someone else has cooked or bought.)

I associate all chocolate spread with chocolate hazelnut because they are usually versions of Nutella.

@PukkaP

If I had an allergy, I'd check before eating it

I agree with this.

However, I would also expect it to be called a "chocolate & hazelnut spread" given it has hazelnuts in it.

I suspect that the hazelnut content is so low that they wouldn't be allowed to call it 'chocolate and hazelnut spread'. Same with other value versions.

@Blueuxbridge

The OP wasn’t asking if people with allergies routinely check ingredients. Of course we do. The question was whether without turning the jar over you would expect it to contain nuts. And on the basis that they are using the Cadbury colours and call it a chocolate spread the answer to that has to be no. And this is important as a non allergic person could have bought it and served it in good faith to a person with an allergy.

Thankyou... This is EXACTLY what I meant!!!

Thankyou... This is EXACTLY what I meant!!!

Oh yeah, the label of a different product is purple so you assume the ingredients are identical and you don't need to check for allergens.

Flawless logic

@Blueuxbridge

The OP wasn’t asking if people with allergies routinely check ingredients. Of course we do. The question was whether without turning the jar over you would expect it to contain nuts. And on the basis that they are using the Cadbury colours and call it a chocolate spread the answer to that has to be no. And this is important as a non allergic person could have bought it and served it in good faith to a person with an allergy.

It really doesn't should like you all do routinely check ingredients, having read the opening post.

Personally I wouldn't expect it either to contain to not contain nuts - it's basically impossible to tell - and if I needed to know, I would check as I know most chocolate spreads do contain nuts.

Looking at the front of that jar I would expect it just to be chocolate.

Reading the back I would think ‘bleugh, oil, fat and chocolate powder’ and put it back before I got to the tiny amount of hazelnut flavouring.

The OP wasn’t asking if people with allergies routinely check ingredients. Of course we do

But the OP didn't check, ate it anyway and is now blaming Tesco for not putting it in large writing on the front of the jar when she should have checked the allergen information before buying it if she is allergic.

I have a serious hazelnut allergy, and my general assumption is that all chocolate spread has hazelnuts in, and if it looks as though it might be an exception, I would check the label to make sure. But even if it doesn't actually have nuts in, I'm so accustomed to avoiding Nutella that I associate chocolate spread with potential death so I don't enjoy it even if it's safe.

I wouldn’t assume that it did, but equally I wouldn’t assume that it didn’t and would think that it would be sensible to check if it was something that would make me unwell.