Since their launch last year, Porky Lights sausages by Graham White & Co have become very popular amongst sausage lovers.
Their low 3% fat content and minimal calorie count of just 78 calories per sausage has meant that they can be enjoyed by health and weight conscious consumers.
However, a recent decision by Slimming World to re-evaluate the product’s 'syn value' has led to concern amongst consumers. Slimming World has claimed a test reveals that the sausages are higher in fat than the manufacturer has claimed.
To set the record straight, Graham White & Co has released the latest studies into the product which show they are as low in calories and fat as advertised. These tests were completed, calculated and certificated by independent, UKAS accredited, food analysis laboratories.
Graham White & Co is now attempting to establish how Slimming World's results have come to differ from the results of other laboratories and whether the correct product was examined.
Many newspaper reports suggest that a rival sausage manufacturer may have tested a different product and passed it off as Porky Lights to Slimming World.
A statement from Graham White & Co’s managing director Chris Price said: “Slimming World’s recent re-valuation of the Porky Lights syn value as a result of some new tests has come to light and is causing concern amongst Porky Lights customers.
“G White & Co are currently in dialogue with Slimming World to establish how their values were ascertained but want to unequivocally state that the Slimming World results are neither consistent between their own batch tests and are highly inconsistent with the nutritional results that have been produced by numerous tests, over a number of months from a number of independent UKAS approved food laboratories.
“We have only the interests of our customers at this time and have published our most recent set of nutritional results for all to see.
“We hope to be working closely with Slimming World to understand how their results differ from the findings of other laboratories and hope that once clarified, the temporary withdrawal of Porky Lights from the Slimming World’s Syns Database can be reversed and Porky Lights fans can enjoy their sausages in the full knowledge that they really are only 3% fat and 78 calories per sausage.”
Allison Brentnall, head of food at Slimming World, said: “We’ve let Porky Lights know about our findings and, in order to protect our members’ weight losses, which is always our priority, we have temporarily removed the sausages from our Syns database.”
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