Tesco has been accused of skimping on ingredients in the products it price matches to Aldi, such as chicken nuggets with far less chicken in them.

Tesco has been accused of skimping on ingredients in the products it price matches to Aldi, such as chicken nuggets with far less chicken in them. A survey of 122 Tesco products by BBC Panorama found that nearly a third contained at least five percentage points less of their main ingredient when compared with their counterpart in Aldi.

Dozens of Tesco products price-matched to Aldi - such as chicken nuggets, cottage pie and blackcurrant squash - are not like-for-like, BBC Panorama has found. In the case of chicken nuggets, the Tesco product contained 39% chicken compared with 60% in the Aldi one.

Various products on Tesco's Aldi price-match scheme are not like-for-like matches with those of the discounter, according to an investigation by BBC's Panorama.

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Items including chicken nuggets, blackcurrant squash and chicken kievs were found to contain less of their main ingredient compared to their Aldi equivalents

Dozens’ of Tesco products price-matched to Aldi not like-for-like – report - Of 122 Tesco products, 38 were found to have at least five percentage points less of the main ingredient than the matched Aldi product.