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Lyo offer expedition meals using natural, fresh ingredients and no preservatives or artificial additives. They stand out from the crowd with unique recipes, the use of chunky ingredients that result in more natural, home style meals.
LYO says:
Prepared according to an Italian recipe, this combination of pasta with healthy spinach and creamy Gorgonzola cheese is an absolute delight! For more gourmet taste we garnished the meal with almonds flakes. This tasty vegetarian meal will give you the energy you need and make your taste buds go crazy! We are cooking before freeze-drying. In our pouches, there are no artificial additives, no extra sugar, no palm oil and no preservatives!
Our Verdict
LYO have tried to take a different route with their meals focussing on natural, fresh ingredients and no preservatives or artificial additives. They proudly cultivate some of the fruits and herbs on their own fields. Other fruits and herbs as well as vegetables come from farmers known to them personally. All ingredients are carefully verified to ensure that their products meet the highest quality standards.
The majority of the meals use interesting combinations of natural ingredients with chunky vegetables, authentic flavours and more of a home cooked approach. We’ve been lucky enough to test a variety of them and have always been impressed with the end results. Generally, we appreciated the good combinations of flavour, texture and portion size.
The fill line for adding water to the packs is novel with a blue area from the bottom showing how much water is required. It is quite a subtle design feature that can be easy to miss and some form of internal indicator would be best but it still works.
 8/10 |
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| STAFF'S TASTE TEST - “This may be the best vegetarian meal we have tried. It tastes freshly prepared and home-cooked, the pasta hydrated well and the Gorgonzola and spinach meld well. The almonds add a little bit of a variety of texture. I will add less water next time I prepare this meal, as the flavours will intensify.” |
- Reviewed by Ultralight Outdoor Gear
Features
- Ingredients: spinach 44%, pasta 27% (durum wheat semolina) onion, sour cream, Gorgonzola 5%, almonds 2%, salt garlic, butter.
Specifications
- Weight: 112g
| Nutrition Facts | Per 100g |
Per serving 126g ( 500g rehydrated) |
| Calories | 1822 kJ / 434 kcal | 1713 kJ / 408 kcal |
| Fat | 15 g | 14 g |
| of which saturates | 7.7 g | 7.2 g |
| Carbohydrates | 54 g | 50 g |
| of which sugars |
6.4 g | 6g |
| Fibre | 8.8g | 8.3 g |
| Protein | 17 g | 16 g |
| Salt | 1.4 g | 1.3 g |
