Kinder Pinguí is a confectionery product from the Italian confectionery company Ferrero as part of its Kinder brand of products.
| Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) | |||||||||||
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| Energy | 1,873 kJ (448 kcal) | ||||||||||
37.8 g | |||||||||||
29.7 g | |||||||||||
7 g | |||||||||||
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| †Percentages estimated using US recommendations for adults,[1] except for potassium, which is estimated based on expert recommendation from the National Academies.[2] | |||||||||||
It is a chocolate bar made from a light milk preparation with a coating and a separating layer made of chocolate. With a weight of 30 grams, it contains 9.9 grams of sugar and 8.9 grams of fat [3] The addition of alcohol to various Kinder products (de:Kinder Maxi King, de:Milch Schnitte, Kinder Pinguí) was stopped by Ferrero in mid-2000 by changing the recipe.[4] The _target group of the product are mainly families with children. In 2004, 48 percent of all 6 to 13-year-olds in Germany ate at least one Kinder Pinguí per week.[5]
As with other products in the Kinder brand family (Kinder Chocolate, Happy Hippo, Milch-Schnitte), Ferrero tries to emphasize the milk content of the product in its advertising as a nutritionally positive property. The physiological calorific value of Kinder Pinguí is approx. 1,870 kJ/100 g (450 kcal/100 g) and is therefore somewhat lower than that of Happy Hippo or Kinder Bueno. Nevertheless, in a study for the German Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, in 2005, the "Kinder Pinguí" advertisement was criticized as trivializing. The milk content consists largely of butterfat and skimmed milk powder – corresponds to about one teaspoon (5 grams) in a Kinder Pinguí bar. The "Kinder Pinguí" advert also works with child-friendly advertising material such as a penguin as a figure of identification, but it is aimed more at the parents as a _target audience. In addition to the argumentative aspect of nutritional value, enjoyment and convenience for parents are also promised, for example, in a spot in which a mother first allows her child and then herself a Pinguí and in this way, she can easily fulfil her care obligations and enjoy herself. Marketing wise this puts the product between Kinder chocolate and Milch-Schnitte on the one hand, whose advertising is primarily aimed at adults, and Happy Hippo on the other hand, which is primarily aimed at children in the design of the product itself (a waffle in the shape of a hippopotamus).[6]
Occasionally, the variant Kinder Pinguí Strawberry and Raspberry are also available for a short time. Since 2018, the varieties Cocos[7] and Caramel have also been part of the permanent range. In 2004, Ferrero's commercial was the third most frequently broadcast commercial on German television [8] with 3,301 broadcasts.
References
edit- ^ United States Food and Drug Administration (2024). "Daily Value on the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels". FDA. Archived from the original on 27 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
- ^ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Food and Nutrition Board; Committee to Review the Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium (2019). "Chapter 4: Potassium: Dietary Reference Intakes for Adequacy". In Oria, Maria; Harrison, Meghan; Stallings, Virginia A. (eds.). Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium. The National Academies Collection: Reports funded by National Institutes of Health. Washington, DC: National Academies Press (US). pp. 120–121. doi:10.17226/25353. ISBN 978-0-309-48834-1. PMID 30844154. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
- ^ https://www.kinder.com/uk/en/kinder-pingui - Website of the product (see Ingredients)
- ^ Kinder products without alcohol: https://web.archive.org/web/20130627185602/ http://www.verbrauchernews.de/artikel/0000005533.html Archived 27 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine (Memento of original article, 27 June 2013, Internet Archive)
- ^ Götz Hamann: https://www.zeit.de/2004/22/Kinder-Konsum In: Die Zeit (Journal), Nr. 22/2204
- ^ Cornelia Becker, Kilian Bizer, Martin Führ, Natalie Krieger, Johannes Scholl: Advertisement for Children https://web.archive.org/web/20070929131016/http://www.fbsuk.h-da.de/fileadmin/dokumente/berichte-forschung/2004/Becker_Krieger_Lebensmittelwerbung_Kinderprodukte.pdf (Memento 29 September 2007 Internet Archive) (PDF; 3,9 MB) Collaborative Research Group on Institutional Analysis, Darmstadt 2005 (Research report for the Federal Ministry of Consumer Affairs)
- ^ "Kinder Pinguí Cocos".
- ^ SevenOne Media: The German Advertising Market in 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20070928020250/http://appz.sevenonemedia.de/download/publikationen/werbemarkt_2004.pdf (Memento 28 September 2007 in Internet Archive) (PDF), S. 5