by Amazon Basil Pesto (Green Pesto), 190g, Made in Italy

This basil pesto is delicious, it adds real flavor to pasta, sandwiches or salads. It’s super easy to use straight from the jar and saves time when cooking. Considering the price, it’s excellent value for money. Great quality!

Really nice taste and a lot cheaper than the brands

As good as you'll buy anywhere. Good quality pesto. Nice flavour and a good price.

Another winner for Amazon brand foods. Love the taste of this pesto

Good quality pesto at a good price

So I've been eating this pesto on a regular occurrence and whilst the flavour is there in the back of my head, there was something confusing about the texture. Normally, it's combined into a sauce to add a basil punch, so the overall pesto-to-pasta ratio is always pretty minimal; however, I recently made gnocchi and used this pesto as the sauce, and the texture of this pesto is pretty bad. One of the included ingredients is bamboo fibre - it's before 'Pine Nuts’ (1%) and after 'Cashew Nuts’ (5%) in the ingredient list, so it contains between 1.9 grams and 9.5 grams of 'Bamboo Fibre' in the jar. The main reason I looked into this is as you take a spoon of the pesto out of the jar, you can see hair-like strands, and whilst it's 100% edible, it kind of gets stuck in your mouth as you're eating it. It's strange; I imagine they've added it to provide a more fibrous texture, but once you know it’s there, it's a struggle to eat this. I do not mind bulking agents, stabilisers, and thickeners in food, and bamboo is natural too, but I think the recipe needs fixing. Maybe replace the bamboo fibres with a powdered version. It's definitely not the norm to use bamboo; both Morrisons and ALDI (UK) do not include bamboo in their similarly priced (standard range) pestos.

Bursting with flavor

Quality product and convenient