Is Supermarket own brand food better than the expensive brands.?

Question

What i mean is a tomato is a tomato and a baked bean is a baked bean

Answer 1

Often times, the store brand, or "off" brand, is every bit as good as the nationally advertised brands. Sometimes they seem to be better, but that could be because you've saved a bit of money by not buying the nationally advertised brand.

I've noticed this with things like cake mixes, drink mixes, shortening, and canned goods. There really isn't anything you can do to pastas and such to make them not good....  unless it's the low carb stuff. At that rate, you'd be better off just eating the cardboard it comes in... it would taste better. lol

Answer 2

Nine times out of ten the super market brand is the name brand just without the marketing campaign.

Answer 3

yes this is true, and supermarket own brands are actually quite often produced by the big name companies just without the brand name, or price tag! this is the case when u see labels that say for instance, 'produced for tesco'

Answer 4

Supermarket brands have greatly improved and if you think about your food cupboards at home, very few items(even if not own brands)that are advertised on tv or radio will you find. Most are products manufactured by well known companies but not items advertised.

You could look at the following link and compare the quality and prices of many supermarkets own brands...

Many people are finding under the present economic climate they are having to buy less known brands...

Answer 5

Personally, I think some expensive brand foods taste better.

Like store brand soda is really gross. It tastes nothing like soda. When it comes to baked-beans and soups and stuff, it all depends on the flavoring and ingredients they put in. But it most of the time I just perfer the expensive brand. When it comes to potatoe chips and bakery goods, I like the stores version better. But it also depends on what store you go to.  

Answer 6

In my opinion they are all worth a try.

You can save quite a bit of money over a period of time buying Supermarket brands, which are equally as good as popular brands.

More and more people are turning to this, and as you say a bean is a bean.

If for some reason you don't like them, you can always go back to your favourite choice.

Answer 7

It's cheaper, certainly, and often no worse.  The extra money you pay could easily go towards packaging and advertising rather than product quality.

Some premium brands really are premium (like with soda and ice cream), but in many cases it's hard to tell.  Since the supermarket doesn't own their own farms, they get packaged products from another company that labels it for them.  Sometimes it's even the same company that produces the 'premium' varieties!

Answer 8

it is a cheaper brand with usually the same stuff in it. you can compare the ingredient labels between the two and check for differences, if none then im sure its just as tasty as the expensive brand but i personally trust the more expensive brands and would rather pay the few cents extra for better quality(=

Answer 9

i prefer the expensive brands over the supermarket brands. i try to shop organic anyway. but if its a canned vegetable i need then the supermarket one is fine

Answer 10

They may be manufactured by less prominent companies, or manufactured on the same production line as a 'named' brand. Generic brands are usually priced below those products sold by supermarkets under their own brand (frequently referred to as "store brands" or "own brands"). Generally they imitate these more expensive brands, competing on price. Generic brand products are often of equal quality as a branded product, however, the quality may change suddenly in either direction with no change in the packaging if the supplier for the product changes.

Answer 11

No.

For some reason, store brands seem to lack that extra little something that the national brands have.

I've had Fig Newtons and fig bars and the fig bars just don't taste the same

Answer 12

Some of them are OK - it's trial and error.

Answer 13

yeah probably.

i think people buy expensive brands because they think it's good quality- and it's true for things like chocolate...

but standard daily foods are the same.