The CHOICE food and household product experts really have been busy this year.
Whether it’s taste-testing dozens of samples of peanut butter in the kitchen labs, or scrubbing a soiled ceramic tile hundreds of times to test cleaners, they’ve been putting in the hard work to help you decide which products are worth spending your cash on in the supermarket.
Here’s their pick of the best tasting, best performing or best value products that really shone above the rest.
This Irish contender creamed the competition in our review of 44 supermarket butters.
Our best rated smooth peanut butter is a great-value supermarket buy.
3. The smooth operator
Coles Smooth Peanut Butter
A real smooth mover, Coles Smooth Peanut Butter, was rated our best smooth peanut butter in our review of the best peanut butters with a score of 83%. As an added bonus, it was also one of the cheapest, costing just 70 cents per 100g.
This powerful powder came out on top in our powder stain remover test.
4. The vanishing act
Vanish NapiSan Oxi Advance Crystal White Gold Whitening Power
Woolworths Little Ones newborn nappies tick the boxes for value and performance.
5. The fresh new talent
Little Ones Ultra Dry Size 1 newborn
The tiny but mighty newborn nappies, Little Ones Ultra Dry Size 1 Newborn, scored equal-first in the newborn category of our disposable nappies test and, great news for parents on a budget, costs almost half the price as the other first-place holder, Huggies.
The most powerful performer in our dishwasher detergent review was these Finish tabs.
6. The squeaky clean one
Finish Powerball Quantum Ultimate Pro Tabs Dishwasher Detergent
Our lab test looks at tablet, powder and gel dishwasher detergents to determine which products give the best cleaning performance, offer the best value for money, and claim to be environmentally friendly and cruelty-free.
We blind taste tested and compared 33 supermarket mayonnaise products from brands including Best Foods, Heinz, Kewpie and Praise, to find out which store-bought mayos cut the mustard for taste.
This toilet paper scored almost at the top of the table, but is almost half the price of the top-scoring Quilton product at 30c per 100 sheets.
8. The one that’s on a roll
iCare double length toilet paper
We lab test and compare toilet paper from Coles, Woolworths, Who Gives A Crap, Kleenex, Quilton and more to help you find the best for you. And this toilet paper from iCare wiped out its competitors in the value stakes for scoring high but costing less.
The top scorer with 78% was Quilton Royal Soft Weave Toilet Tissue, costing 56c per 100 sheets. But for better value, the iCare double length paper came in just three percentage points less, but is almost half the price at 30c per 100 sheets.
If you have a coffee pod machine, our expert taste testers rated this product from Coles as the best.
There were a full five percentage points between first place and the tightly contested second place – where four pods tied with a score of 70%.
For a kitchen spray that makes the chores a little easier, this Dettol product rated above the rest.
10. The kitchen star
Dettol Healthy Clean Kitchen
When you need to clean the kitchen, you want a product that will make the chore as easy as possible. So to help you out, our experts lab test and review the latest products to help you find the best performers.
Dettol Healthy Clean Kitchen benched well above its weight division to do the heavy lifting in your kitchen with a top score or 90% in our test (just creeping ahead of Ajax Professional Kitchen and Jif Power and Shine).
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