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A guaranteed analysis is four lines and a calorie figure, and it reads differently for a shrimp than for a quail egg. These guides take the labels for frog legs, octopus, quail eggs and shrimp one line at a time. The mussel bag gets its own guide, because blanched means the mussels are neither raw nor called fully cooked. Then there are the plain questions about color, shape and smell once you open a bag, so you know what you are looking at. Start with the octopus label or the mussel bag.
All Labels and Looks posts
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Blanched, then freeze dried: the mussel process word
What blanching means as a process step, why our blue-lipped mussels are called neither raw nor fully cooked, where they sit next to our raw bags, and what the word does not tell you.
Four lines and two energy figures on our shrimp
Every line on our shrimp label in plain words: the 71% protein floor, the fat, fiber and moisture lines, the energy figures, how the label compares with our other bags, and what a raw shrimp label does not cover.
Light, crunchy and still a scallop: the close look
What a freeze-dried raw scallop looks and feels like, why shape, color and size change from piece to piece, and what is left off it.
Opening a bag of frog legs: what you will find
What a freeze-dried frog leg looks and feels like out of the bag, why no two pieces match, and what the listing does and does not say about it.
Our baby octopus, freeze-dried raw: what changes
Our baby octopus is freeze-dried raw, whole, with nothing added. What that means for washing up, serving a dog or a cat in small pieces, and keeping the bag.
Raw, bone in, freeze-dried: our frog legs plainly
Our frog legs are freeze-dried raw with the bone in. What that means for washing up, supervising a dog with a whole leg, which dogs the listing names, and keeping the bag.
Reading the label on a bag of whole quail eggs
Our quail egg label read in plain words: the protein floor, the 26% fat floor, the fiber and moisture ceilings, the 115.9 kcal per ounce line, how far it sits from our seafood labels, and why there is no figure for one egg.
Reading the label printed on our baby octopus bag
Every line on our baby octopus label read in plain words: the protein and fat floors, the fiber and moisture ceilings, the two energy figures, how it sits next to our other bags, and what it cannot tell you.
Small, whole and odd: freeze-dried mussels up close
What a freeze-dried blue-lipped mussel looks and feels like, why it is the whole mussel and not a chew, how big a piece is, and what the listing leaves unsaid.
What the frog legs label prints, and what it skips
Every line on our frog legs label in plain words: the protein and fat floors, the fiber and moisture ceilings, the energy line, where frog legs sit among our seven labels, and the questions the label cannot answer.
Whole baby octopus, tentacles and all: a close look
What a freeze-dried baby octopus looks like, why no two pieces match, how strong the smell is, and what is and is not in the bag.
Whole curled shrimp, cream to peach, up close
What our freeze-dried raw shrimp look like in our photos: whole curled bodies, their colors, and how a piece compares with the other treats.