Summary Of PC Blue Menu Nutritional Stats

[deane]

And here's the part that I've been waiting for, even if you haven't: a chart comparing the nutritional stats of all the President's Choice Blue Menu frozen meals that I've reviewed.

Calories are per gram of food. Fat, sodium (Na) and fibre are milligrams per gram of food. Vitamins and minerals are percent of daily requirement per 100 grams of food (just to avoid lots of leading zeroes).

Red means a particularly bad stat, green a particularly good one.

Dish	Wt	Cal /g	Fat mg/g					Na mg/g	Fibre mg/g	Vitamins %/100g		Minerals %/100g		Taste
			Tot	Sat	Ω-3	Ω-6	6/3			Vit A	Vit C	Ca	Fe
Barley Risotto With Herbed Chicken	290	1.0	20.7	5.17	0.34	3.45	10.0	2.0	17.0	2.76	2.07	2.07	5.17	Bland
Chipotle Chicken Quesadilla	125	1.6	36.0	8.0	0.0	0.0	n/a	2.48	40.0	0.0	0.0	8.0	8.0	Tasty
General Tao Chicken	365	1.29	10.9	2.74	0.27	2.74	10.0	1.89	8.22	1.1	1.1	0.55	2.2	Tasty-
Chicken Bangkok	280	0.89	8.93	3.57	0.0	0.0	n/a	1.79	10.7	5.36	2.14	2.14	5.36	Tasty-
Sweet Chili Lemon Grass Chicken	350	1.0	12.9	1.43	0.86	2.86	3.33	1.91	2.86	1.14	10.0	0.57	0.0	Tasty
Chicken & Ricotta Cheese Calzones	246	1.95	36.6	12.2	1.63	6.50	4.0	4.47	16.3	1.63	1.63	6.5	16.3	Tasty
Whole Wheat Rotini With Chicken Pesto	280	1.32	28.6	7.14	1.43	5.36	3.75	2.39	21.4	5.36	1.43	5.36	7.14	Tasty
Roasted Vegetable Lasgna	283	1.02	31.0	15.9	0.0	0.0	n/a	1.91	17.7	7.07	5.30	8.83	8.83	Delicious
Chicken Szechwan	225	0.89	17.8	4.44	0.0	0.0	n/a	1.96	8.89	6.67	8.89	1.78	6.67	Tasty-
Sweet And Sour Chicken	350	1.0	5.71	1.43	0.29	1.43	5.0	1.11	5.71	0.57	8.57	0.57	0.0	Tasty+

As you can see, it's a pretty mixed bag. The rotini seems the clear winner, but only because several of its numbers just barely escaped being flagged in red.

Hmm. Not really sure what that tells me, except to stay away from the risotto, and I knew that after the first few bites.