Asda Yeast Extract

I will now review my children's spread of choice "Asda's yeast extract", well I say of choice, I refuse to buy the better known yeast extract, (you know which one i am referring to, you either love it or hate it!), due to the price, but I will get to that later. ~~~~~~ THE PACKAGING ~~~~~~ The product comes in a very sturdy squat round jar. The jar itself, for some strange reason, is made from brown glass, to my reckoning the glass should be clear as the product is brown anyway, so as giving a clearer indication of product left within, but I digress! The lid is plastic and screw top and is, along with the label, bright yellow in ...  Read the complete review

First things first, let's be totally honest, this is a cheaper version of 'Marmite'. ASDA yeast extract comes in at a modest £1.54 on my last shop, a considerable saving when you compare it to the more mainstream 'Marmite' brand. It's a simple spread, aptly named 'Yeast Extract', but it also has added vitamins, so for the health conscious, spread away! Now, onto the packaging. 'Yeast Extract' doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not. It's plain and simple (much like the spread), but it does exactly the job you want it to do. And finally, and the most important, the taste - It Rocks! I honestly, perfer this product to 'Marmite'. ...  Read the complete review

Growing up as a child of the 1970s, our kitchen cupboard always had a jar of bovril and a jar of marmite and these two jars were multi talented......they formed the basis of gravies, stews, hot drinks on a winters day (with very few calories much to my Mum's delight when wanting to lose a few lbs) and of course marmite sandwiches, or bovril on toast. Picnic teas and childrens birthday parties also benefitted from marmite sandwiches, with it being a special treat if you got cheese and marmite (together of course).....ah, those were the days. Back to the present day, and the range of sandwich fillers in the supermarkets is far greater than ever before ...  Read the complete review

Every morning without fail my hubby will have one piece of marmite on toast. Not the most substantial breakfast for a 6ft tall, 14 stone man but he won't have it any other way. This is a blessing for me because I find mornings hard enough without having to cook up a fried breakfast for him everyday! Anyway back to the Marmite, we were buying the real thing for a while then I found a review of this product on here and thought it has to be worth a try as it's considerably less than a real jar of Marmite costing around £1.60 for a 240g jar. The packaging. It's a bit of a copy of Marmite, mirroring the black jar although it it a slightly different shape and ...  Read the complete review

By far the most popular yeast extract on the supermarket shelves has to be Marmite. But I resort to buying supermarket own brands because they usually come in a good bit cheaper. A 240g jar of Asda yeast extract costs £1.54, so if you put this beside a jar of the real McCoy Marmite which costs £2.49 for 250g then the logic of buying a supermarket own brand hits you straight away. Asda have cleverly designed their own brand jar to look very like the Marmite jar. Vegemite is another well known yeast extract but it has a much weaker taste. Bovril is also a well known extract and Bovril was originally a true beef extract, but by all accounts in 2004 when the `mad ...  Read the complete review