A UK food reviewer took to TikTok to share her taste test of trying 19 different cans of Heinz’s tinned meals – with one being named the best and some being described as ‘inedible’
A woman named Becca did the ultimate test to find out what the best Heinz tinned meal was – and was shocked by the outcome.
Becca started her video by saying that she’d spent £30 buying all of the different tinned meals. These varied from beans to pasta hoops – and she was determined to find which one tasted the best.
“There’s 19 meals to try ranked from worst to best, so let’s review it,” she said before jumping in to try the first can, which was baked beans without added sugar.
She quickly made a face of disgust as she had her first spoonful of the beans, which made her say: “Oh, no no no no no no, that is disgusting. I don’t even – that doesn’t even taste like tomato. That’s just this sourness, I think is clove.
“That’s a minus one out of ten,” she decided as she moved on to the second can, which wasn’t much better. Taking the first bite of her hoops, she quickly explained the taste to be “minging”.
Becca added: “These are nothing like they used to be. When I was a kid, these were delicious. The sauce is like sweet water. That’s a zero out of 10.”
The spaghetti was next in line, ranking at 17 place in terms of how nice they were, but they managed to get a slightly better score of 2/10.
The following cans included their mac and cheese, vegan bean and sausage, as well as the classic baked beans. These scored 5.5/10, earning it place 14 on the list
“I just find Heinz beans a little bit watery in terms of flavour and they don’t have that nice tomato richness that I kind of would expect for the price that I’m paying,” she explained.
Next in her ranking were the hoops without added sugar and the pasta shapes. But it was the Alphabetti that shocked her – as they were the first pasta item that had a nice flavour.
“It could do with a better tomato flavour, though I know I’m not the target audience for this. And it is a good thing that they reduce the sugar and salt for kids,” she said before giving it a score of 6.5 out of 10.
Starting off the top ten of Becca’s list were the beef ravioli. She the sauce was okay with a nice tomato base – but the whole meal was a bit bland.
The foodie said: “I do like the pasta, it’s cooked really well. It is quite thick. I would potentially have this again if it was like on offer. But I don’t think I’d be paying full price for it.”
It also got a 6.5/10, earning it a top spot. It was, however, beaten by the spaghetti carbonara, the Cathedral City cheesy beans and the five beans. The latter placed in seven after earning the first 8/10 score, followed by the peri peri beans.
Kicking off the top five was the tikka beans, the barbecue beans, and classic beans with pork sausages, which all earned 8.5/10 each. Then earning the second place was spaghetti Bolognese, which earned a high score of 9/10.
So which tin reigned supreme? Becca gushed: “Finally, in first place is the spaghetti with Richmond pork sausages.” She described the flavour as comforting – before also scoring it a 9 out of 10.
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