Aldi was selling cooked ham with 110% British Pork.

[47of74]

Yummy.

If you’re a foodie, it can be a concern what kind of hidden ingredients are lurking in your grub.

So, rest assured this ham is 110 per cent pork.

Yep, you read that correctly. 110 per cent.

[MADem]

1. I like Aldi, but that's a bit effed up !!! nt

[bananas]

2. So it's only 25% ham? What does "e400g" mean?

Metro.co.uk reached out to Aldi to solve this meaty mystery, a spokesperson explained that the figures are correct, though they should have been express in grams rather than percentages.

Because the product loses moisture (and therefore weight too) 110g of pork is needed to produce 100g of the finished product.

The Aldi rep told us: ‘This was a simple typing error and we have informed the branded supplier, who are working to correct it.’

[William Seger]

3. "The (e) stands for estimated sign."

"It is a European Union mark which is printed on all prepackaged goods. It shows that the weight of the product in only an estimate and not an exact figure."

http://answers.ifood.tv/question/what-does-the-e-mean-on-this-example-e400g

So, yeah, only 110g of ham in the 400g. So, most of the rest must be the Suffolk Ale?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. No, 25% is completely wrong.

As it says, "110g of pork is needed to produce 100g of the finished product" because it loses moisture. For 400g of finished product, they put in 440g of pork, 16g of ale, and a bit of sugar, salt etc.