We did a taste test of Lidl Tuna Chunks in sunflower oil against the Tesco one. Lidl's brand name for tinned fish products is Nixe. They cost 75p while Tesco cost 79p. Tesco do a discount if you buy four, but the Lidl cans are larger, so the Lidl Tuna is slightly cheaper. But there's not a lot in it, and can be partly off set by the points collected if you have a Tesco clubcard. However, the Lidl can has a ring pull, which I prefer. And the tuna has larger chunks than the Tesco and looks much better - a deeper more attractive colour and texture. The Tesco tuna looks grey and mushy (cat vomit Chrissie says), and has smaller chunks. The Lidl so far is winning - cheaper to buy, larger tin, easier to open, and much better looking. However when it comes to the taste test two of us preferred the Tesco. I found the Lidl to have a moderate tuna taste which is somewhat dominated by the sunflower oil. If the tuna was in olive oil I wouldn't object to the taste of the oil, but sunflower is a slightly bitter tasting oil with a suggestion of corn. The Tesco was more clearly tuna flavoured, though the flavour seemed to have been enhanced by the salt. Indeed, Chrissie disliked it as she felt it was too salty.
We then did a taste taste of the Lidl tuna against Princes Tuna Chunks in Sunflower Oil. £1.25 for a 145g (102g drained weight) tin, so considerably more expensive. The Princes tuna appears to be dry - it contains far les oil than the Lidl. And the appearance is closer to the Tesco, which surprised me, as I somehow thought that the Lidl tuna was processed by Princes. On tasting, the Princes won out on a 2 - 1, same as with the Tesco. The Princes tastes very much like the Tesco, so it seems likely that the Tesco tuna is processed by Princes.
Date: Oct 2020. Score: 5
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