Guide to the table

  • Products are listed in order of rank. All products were brought in Wellington supermarkets on 28 January.


About our panel


  • Angela Todd is a food virologist at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research.

  • Kathleen Shaw is a microbiologist at the New Zealand Food Safety Authority.

  • Paul Gibbs is a chef at the Wellington Institute of Technology.

  • Our panel also included Consumer writers Luke Harrison and Libby Manley.

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