IT’S long been accepted that many brands of chicken-flavoured snacks come in contact with real chicken in the same way that the Ringwood Bypass comes in contact with Ringwood.

Just because its packaging advertises one main flavour boldly, doesn’t necessarily mean that a product contains that ingredient much, if at all.

So just how much cheese is in Cheezels, orange in Fanta and chicken in chicken noodles?

Below, the Herald Sun Department of Internet represents the main flavour of 15 supermarket foods as a portion of their ingredients through pie graphs.

We were disheartened but not entirely surprised by the results.

media_camera Cheezels are about one per cent cheese, from cheese powder.

media_camera Ribena drink is about 20.8 per cent blackcurrant juice.

media_camera According to its ingredients list, a packet of roast chicken-flavoured Pringles contains zero per cent chicken.

media_camera SPC plum sauce contains about 27 per cent plum puree.

media_camera Colonial Farm beef rissoles are 50 per cent beef. But at least the next 17 per cent are vegetables.

media_camera No real crab in these crab-flavoured noodles, according to the ingredients list.

media_camera Heinz old fashioned chicken soup contains ten per cent old fashioned chicken.

media_camera As for the old fashioned chicken in Maggi chicken-flavoured noodles, there doesn’t appear to be any.

media_camera Pasito soft drink is 4.6 per cent apple and 0.6 per cent actual passionfruit.

media_camera Good to know this shaved free range chicken is at least 70 per cent chicken.

media_camera And this IXL strawberry spread is 40 per cent strawberry.

media_camera Actual fruit makes up 27 per cent of Cranberry Classic juice drink.

media_camera As for Fanta, 2.1 per cent is real orange.

media_camera Black and Gold fish fingers, 59 per cent fish.

media_camera As for Ingham chicken schnitzel, 30 per cent chicken.

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