Mark Hix 

High street sandwiches: taste test

Mark Hix rates your options for lunch on the go
  
  

Mark Hix shot at the Tramshed library kitchen
Mark Hix shot at the Tramshed Library Kitchen. Photograph: Pal Hansen for Observer Food Monthly Photograph: Pal Hansen for Observer Food Monthly

Chicken salad

Marks & Spencer Roast chicken salad on malted bread
261g £2.75
Excellent fresh flavours and balanced ingredients. It's also really nicely seasoned.
★★★★

Greggs Classic chicken salad
218g, £2.10
I like that they've been generous with the chicken, and it's decent quality meat. Needs more salad, though.
★★★

Morrisons Chicken salad
215g, £2
Seems to be freshly made with good, clean ingredients. It's a little bit underseasoned, however, which makes it rather bland.
★★★

Caffe Nero Chicken salad
191g, £2.95
This is a bit dry and would be helped by some mayonnaise, which would also add flavour. There's a strange aftertaste – I don't think it's fresh enough.
★★

Hummus wrap

Benugo Super healthy hummus wrap
250g, £3.80
Lots of nice, creamy hummus with good vegetable fillings of rocket, cucumber and peppers. The wrap is white and has a soft texture.
★★★★★

Pret a Manger Chunky hummus and salad wrap
210g, £1.99
A very good lettuce, coriander and cucumber wrap with a hint of hummus! The hummus content needs a boost.
★★★

Boots Shapers hummus and chargrilled vegetables
185g, £1.90
I can't taste any hummus! I can't taste any evidence of it at all! It should do what it says on the tin.

Sourced Market Hummus sandwich
£3.25
Again, no taste of hummus here. If I had to guess the ingredients, I'd just say it was raw veg. The wrap is also very tough.

Tuna mayo

Upper Crust Tuna mayo baguette
£3.79
Filled with a good amount of tuna and paired only with lettuce. The bread has good flavour and the first thing you taste is the tuna. Very good.
★★★★

Eat Tuna mayonnaise and cucumber
225g, £2.99
The first flavour you get from this is mayonnaise and there's stacks of cucumber. I quite like that about it.
★★★

Benugo Tuna mayo salad
270g, £3.75
Interesting flavours. I like the addition of rocket and capers but the bread is a little tough for my liking.
★★★

Sainsbury's Tuna crunch sub
255g, £2.50
The seeded bread creates some slightly jarring flavours. There's also some raw pepper, which I'm not a fan of in sandwiches. Bit too much going on for me.
★★

 

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