Vegetable stock cube: Salt is always the first ingredient, with a percentage varying more or less from 35% to 50%, value
Esselunga, in addition to the ‘standard’ granulated vegetable stock (with 34% salt and 20% glutamate) has the Esselunga organic stock preparation, in which dehydrated vegetables are at the top of the ingredient list.
This is an exception: normally the various vegetable stock cube references consist largely of salt and glutamate; the overall picture is unhealthy .
It is pleasing that so many years after the launch of Esselunga Bio in 1999, the healthy role of some of the products in this line is recognised.
Accountant Vittorino Brambilla, senior buyer at Esselunga at the time – on my left below – was the architect.
