Quiche, ham & cheese, commercial, baked

Commercially prepared savoury quiche made from short crust pastry and filled with egg, ham, cheese, cream, bacon and milk powder.

Proximates (except moisture and dietary fibre), fatty acids, minerals (except Ca, Cl, Se, S and F) and vitamins (except ATOC, B6, biotin and pantothenate) were derived from a composite of 6 ham and cheese quiches (3x Sara Lee and 3x Papa Guiseppis) purchased in South Australia (AGAL 1988). Dietary fibre was derived from a secondary analysis by AGAL in 1990, with a dry matter adjustment. ATOC, B6, biotin, Ca, Cl, F, pantothenate, S and Se were derived from a composite of 7 samples of ham and cheese quiche (4x Sara Lee and 3x Papa Guiseppis) purchased from 3 stores in Adelaide, baked in the laboratory after thawing (AGAL 1993). Moisture is averaged from both analyses. Fatty acids were averaged from 5 samples of fresh and frozen (Michaels, Temptation Petite, Farmland mini, Sara Lee and Patties Party) quiche lorraine purchased in Sydney in 2005; fat was determined in two of these samples and is averaged with earlier results. I, Na, K and Ca were determined in a composite sample of 6 purchases (2x Sara lee, 2x Hedys, 1x The Food Song, 1x Romeos Classic) purchased from Melbourne supermarkets in February 2006.