168g spinach and ricotta roll=714 calories

Living91
Living91 Posts: 27
in Food and Nutrition
I had to post this as I am so incredibly blown away. Tonight I purchased a spinach and ricotta roll from a Pie Face store, granted it's not the healthiest store to be searching for food but it was either that or McDonald's as nothing else was open. They have the calorie content of the pies displayed but even the lowest (chicken and mushroom) was over 420 calories. They didn't have the calorie content of the spinach roll displayed but I decided to go with that one because spinach and ricotta are both healthy and relatively low calorie items. When I got home I searched on the Pie Face website for the calorie content, 714 calories PER SERVING!?!?!?!?!?!?! I am so blown away and sort of outraged. Below is the feedback form I just submitted to the website (futile I know but I had to vent somehow :/)

"How on earth can you justify selling a product (the spinach roll) that is 714 calories per serving?!?! Especially without having the calorie content clearly displayed (as it wasn't in the Perth city store I was at). The product itself is listed as weighing 168g. 200g of whole milk ricotta cheese is 348 calories, 200g of spinach is 46 calories, 50g of puff pastry is apprx 279 calories. As the product only weighs 168g it scares me to wonder what else you must be adding, or what kind of products you must be using, in order to turn something potentially healthy into such a high calorie snack. Nothing can justify a food product being almost half an adult daily calorie intake. I will not be eating at pie face ever again on principle."

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  • melsinct
    melsinct Posts: 3,512 Member
    I don't see the big deal, the spinach roll was in puff pastry. Puff pastry isn't exactly calorie friendly stuff.
  • Living91
    Living91 Posts: 27
    My point is that even if the roll had 50g of puff pastry, 200g of ricotta cheese and 200g of spinach (impossible because the thing only weighs 168g) that STILL comes to less than 714 calories. And selling a 714 calorie "snack" is plain wreckless and irresponsible unless you make it clear to the buyer what is in the product.
  • weleeq
    weleeq Posts: 2
    I totally agree with you. while a whole sausage roll is only 478 calories, how can they make the spinach roll into 716 cal..... and the even funny thing is the mini spinach roll is 212 cal (87g), which is literally half of the large ones... No idea how they do the maths! Anyway, eating out is always a risk in terms of calorie counting! Pack some healthy snack with you on the go next time! Good luck!

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