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While shopping today I grabbed my favourite garlic paste and stopped to read the label. I was very disappointed to see that it was made with imported ingredients. I may be mistaken, but I thought this product was made with Australian garlic. The same brand offers Australian grown ginger and the products are made in Australia, so I cannot understand why imported garlic has to be used.

I have emailed the company and await their response. Meanwhile I have switched brands. It seems we need to check labels all the time, even of products we buy all the time. Very time consuming and also difficult as the print is usually the smallest on the packaging.

Posted by mel1, 29th April 2014

21 Comments

- - Nas01 said
  - 01 Jan 2016
    3:46 pm
We try to buy Australian made products and produce but sometimes when in hurry I don’t have time to check labels

- - joanne said
  - 23 May 2015
    10:45 am
annoying

- - mom57522 said
  - 30 Aug 2014
    6:58 pm
Label reading is so time consuming and then sometimes even misleading.

- - mums-info said
  - 31 May 2014
    5:54 pm
thats why i grow most of my stuff

- - coppin85 said
  - 28 May 2014
    6:36 pm
fresh garlic from here on!

- - scottie said
  - 28 May 2014
    3:11 pm
it can be so hard to get Australian grown

- - mel1 said
  - 26 May 2014
    10:24 am
I also buy fresh garlic and do prefer it. But for getting dinner on quickly, garlic paste and frozen Australian chopped onion really are time savers.

- - kozack said
  - 24 May 2014
    9:35 pm
i find this happens quite a lot

- - meimei said
  - 22 May 2014
    11:55 am
Yeah, the label very small, need to read carefully. I prefer to buy fresh garlic.

- - catgrrl3 said
  - 16 May 2014
    9:03 pm
i really need to start checking lables, I have always tried to support local, but to be honest, have never really checked to make sure, only go by the front if they have that kangaroo

- - coppin85 said
  - 11 May 2014
    8:39 pm
If only more things were local!

- - tilly said
  - 06 May 2014
    7:45 am
It is getting harder and harder to find locally made products. I think everything needs to have Australian made on a big label on the front and only if the ingredients are grown and made in Australia. If they cannot pass both then they don’t qualify for the label. It would make it so easy.
- mel1 replied
  
  07 May 2014 , 10:09 am
  Absolutely agree with Tilly. Its is so time consuming to do shopping when you try to check labels and then have to try interpret what is actually made in Australia from Australian produce anyway. I realise so items need to be imported and I’m fine with that. I just want to know from where so I can make informed decisions about what my family is eating.
- - arcticwynta said
  - 30 Apr 2014
    2:55 pm
it is sad to think that alot of what we thought was Australian made no longer is. Almost every thing you look at has been out sourced

- - rhino333 said
  - 30 Apr 2014
    1:50 pm
i never check labels but will start from now on. especially when our farmers are suffering as it is with drought

- - christial said
  - 29 Apr 2014
    9:14 pm
Yup very sneaky. I guess is just all about profit for the big companies these days!