I tried supermarkets’ own-brand mince pies – the winner was a third cheaper than Mr Kipling

MINCE pies are a Christmas staple – but which supermarket brands sensation the best?

We’ve compared supermarket own-brand mince pies from Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Aldi and Lidl with Mr Kipling’s heavy filled mince pies. 

And for the archetypal clip this year, we’ve besides added Amazon’s “By Amazon” mince pies into our comparison.

We gave each merchandise a people retired of 10 for sensation and a people retired of 10 for value, based connected the terms per pastry and the wide mincemeat contented – so, brands which skimped connected the filling got a little worth score.

Here’s however each the mince pies scored retired of 20...

Mr Kipling Deep Filled Mince Pies, £2.50 for 6

At 42p per pie, the Mr Kipling mince pies were astir the astir costly ones we tested. But they besides contained the slightest mincemeat filling – conscionable 45% of the full pie.

Although the filling was afloat of Christmas spice, it had a somewhat burnt aftertaste that wasn't precise enjoyable, and the pastry was truthful crumbly it seemed adust and powdery. 

Overall, these didn’t look worthy the premium terms tag for the marque name.

Taste: 6/10

Value: 3/10

Total: 9/20

Tesco Mince Pies, £1.50 for 6 

Tesco’s mince pies had tons of filling with plentifulness of Christmas spice – though the sensation was a spot synthetic and the pastry was a small stodgy. 

At 25p per pie, these were middle-of-the-range for supermarket prices, but had an above-average sensation compared to immoderate of their peers. Not a atrocious buy.

Taste: 7/10

Value: 6/10

Total: 13/20

Asda Mince Pies, £1.35 for 6

The pastry of the Asda mince pies was truly stodgy and looked uncooked successful the middle.

They contained 49% mincemeat (the aforesaid arsenic Tesco and Lidl, higher than Mr Kipling), but we thought the filling tasted similar cardboard. 

Although these were 1 of the cheapest, astatine conscionable 23p per pie, they weren’t precise enjoyable to eat, truthful we'd astir apt opt to wage a spot much for a nicer treat.

Taste: 5/10

Value: 7/10

Total: 12/20

Morrisons Mince Pies, £1.45 for 6 

There was a existent sensation of Christmassy spices to the filling of these Morrisons mince pies, with plentifulness of effect inside. However, the pastry was truthful crumbly it disintegrated into grit erstwhile you spot into it.

We weren’t impressed that Morrisons was the lone supermarket not to state the mincemeat contented connected the packaging – but astatine 24p per pie, these were inactive a bargain compared to Mr Kipling.

Taste: 6/10

Value: 7/10

Total: 13/20

WINNER

Sainsbury’s Mince Pies, £1.70 for 6 

The Sainsbury’s mince pies had a large tasting filling, with tons of citrus and effect flavours – positive a hint of booze. But determination wasn’t overmuch of it, arsenic these pies contained lone 46% mincemeat, which was the lowest of each the brands we tested isolated from Mr Kipling. 

At 28p per pie, these were the priciest of the supermarket brands but we thought they were worthy the other pennies - and they were inactive implicit a 3rd cheaper than Mr Kipling.

Taste: 8/10

Value: 6/10

Total: 14/20

By Amazon Our Selection 6 Deep Filled Mince Pies. £2.90 for 6

The "by Amazon" mince pies were delivered done the letterbox, truthful were a spot squashed and breached earlier they reached the table. 

This didn’t instrumentality distant from the information they were afloat of filling, though, containing a generous 50% mincemeat. But, although, the filling was heavy spiced, it contained much aniseed flavours than accepted Christmas spices – which didn’t consciousness close astatine all.

Unfortunately, these were besides much costly than Mr Kipling, astatine 48p per pie, and they had the highest sweetener contented of each the brands we tested. 

They wouldn't beryllium my prime of the lot.

Taste: 4/10

Value: 4/10

Total: 8/20

Aldi Holly Lane Mince Pies, £1.25 for 6 

The Aldi pies besides contained 50% mincemeat, but the pies tasted beauteous bland and were lacking successful fruit. 

At conscionable 21p per pie, these were 1 of the cheapest brands we tried – but they weren’t arsenic bully arsenic the Tesco oregon Sainsbury’s versions costing conscionable a fewer pennies more.

Taste: 5/10

Value: 8/10

Total: 13/20

Lidl Favorina Mince Pies, £1.25 for 6 

We didn’t bask the Lidl mince pies, which had gluey, stodgy pastry and a bladed filling containing hard gritty bits of dried fruit. 

At conscionable 21p per pie, these were 1 of the cheapest options available, connected par with Aldi. But the Aldi ones contained much mincemeat and little sweetener – truthful we’d take those implicit these Lidl versions connected a choky budget.

Taste: 3/10

Value: 7/10

Total: 10/20