Nutella 'riots' spread across French supermarkets
Intermarché supermarkets offered a 70% discount on Nutella, bringing the price down from €### (£3.90) to €1.40.
But police were called when people began fighting and pushing one another.
Some 365 million kilos of Nutella, a hazelnut chocolate spread, is consumed every year in 160 countries around the world.
Here is information about Nutella from the Tesco website:
- Pack size: 750g
Ingredients
Sugar, Palm Oil, Hazelnuts (13%), Fat-Reduced Cocoa (7.4%), Skimmed Milk Powder (6.6%), Whey Powder (Milk), Emulsifier: Lecithin (Soya), Vanillin
50 Portions per jar = 50 x 15g
What can we work out? Some ideas are below.
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Q1) Work out the missing number
Q2) What is the exchange rate?
Q3) How many portions are sold each year?
Q4) How many tonnes of Nutella are sold each year?
Q5) How many kg of hazelnuts/coca/milk are used each year?
Q5) How many kg of hazelnuts/coca/milk are used each year?
Q6) Ingredients are listed in order (highest amount to lowest). What is the smallest percentage of sugar there could be?
Answers
Answers
Q1) Intermarché supermarkets offered a 70% discount on Nutella, bringing the price down from €4.50 (£3.90) to €1.40.
This is interesting because if you do 1.40/0.3 you get 4.67
This is interesting because if you do 1.40/0.3 you get 4.67
There has been some rounding going on! The actual discount is 68.9%
Q2) £1 = €1.15
Q3) 365 million kg divided by 15g = 24 billion servings. (That's more than 3 servings per person on the planet)
Q4) 365,000 tonnes - that's 1000 tonnes per day!
Q5) Hazelnuts - 47,000 tonnes, Coca - 27,000 tonnes, Milk powder - 24,000 tonnes
Q6) If the smallest three ingredients are the biggest they can possibly be then they will each be 6.6% and the total of everything other than sugar and palm oil is 46.8%. The smallest the sugar can be is half of what remains, which is 26.6%. In reality this is likely to be a big underestimate.
