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Something like a "chicken pie" would have to say how much chicken is in the pie. There's an exemption to that rule for ingredients that are used in small quantities for flavour.

http://www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/multimedia/pdfs/q...

> An ingredient or category of ingredients which is used in small quantities for the purposes of flavouring

> Regulation 19(2)(a)(iii)

> 30. This exemption would apply whether or not pictorial representations are included on the label. Labels must comply with Schedule 8 to the Food Labelling Regulations 1996, as amended, concerning the use of the term “flavour” and should not infringe the provisions either of Section 15(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990 (concerning false or misleading indications) or the Trade Descriptions Act 1968.

Schedule 8 of The Food Labelling Regulations 1996 say:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1499/contents/made

> Any description incorporating the name of a food in such a way as to imply that the food, or the part of a food, being described has the flavour of the food named in the description.

> Shall not be applied to any food unless the flavour of the food being described is derived wholly or mainly from the food named in the description, except that any description incorporating the word “chocolate” which is such as to imply that the food being described has a chocolate flavour may be applied to a food which has a chocolate flavour derived wholly or mainly from non fat cocoa solids where the purchaser would not be misled by the description.

> This shall not be taken to prevent the use of the word “flavour” preceded by the name of a food when the flavour of the food being described is not wholly or mainly from the food named in the description.

I genuinely don't know who regulates this.




England: DEFRA Scotland, Wales, NI: Food Standards Agency

See http://tna.europarchive.org/20130513091226/http://www.food.g...


> how much chicken is in the pie

Yeah, I love the percentages on the ingredients for each item which is mentioned in the name of the product. My only real complaint about EU food labeling is that I wish they were a little more consistent about allergens. Sometimes they're bolded, sometimes only mentioned in a list at the end.




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