Swiss Food Product Tests: the 2025 and 2026 Verdicts at a Glance

Switzerland's independent food tests are published in scattered places: on SRF's «Kassensturz», in K-Tipp, in saldo and in Beobachter. This page collects the published verdicts from September 2025 to April 2026, each with its date, sample size, winner and source. One pattern runs through almost every tasting: in six of the eight «Kassensturz» tests summarised here, a private label or a budget line took first place or shared it — olive oil, strawberry jam, vegetable bouillon, passata, bake-off croissants and Läckerli. We test nothing ourselves — we bundle what others published, and we link back.

Last updated: August 2026. This overview is extended whenever new tests are published.

Sources checked on an ongoing basis. SRF «Kassensturz»: extra-virgin olive oil (2 September 2025, jointly with K-Tipp, sensory assessment by the Swiss Olive Oil Panel at the ZHAW), strawberry jam (29 October 2025), vegetable bouillon (11 November 2025), tomato passata (2 December 2025), bake-off croissants (13 January 2026), Läckerli (3 February 2026), frozen Margherita pizza (3 March 2026), Aceto Balsamico di Modena IGP (14 April 2026), plus the public paprika-crisps tasting (9 April 2024). saldo, «Bio-Lebensmittel: Die Preisunterschiede werden kleiner» (18 March 2026), for the organic price comparison. Stiftung Warentest, olive-oil test 2026 (test.de), picked up in Switzerland by Beobachter among others. Thursday promotion start: Migros corporate and a Denner press release. All grades, prices and rankings are the publishing outlet's, not ours.

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Which food tests did «Kassensturz» publish in 2025 and 2026?

Eight food tastings appeared between September 2025 and April 2026. The table gives you what you are actually looking for: who won, and when it was published.

Everything in this table comes from the respective «Kassensturz» publications. The grades are Swiss school marks from 1 to 6, where 6 is the top mark — so a 5.2 is a good result, not a middling one. Full rankings, jury comments and lab values are on SRF; we deliberately carry only the short verdicts here.

Swiss olive oil test: which extra virgin won?

On 2 September 2025, «Kassensturz» and K-Tipp jointly had thirteen best-selling extra-virgin olive oils assessed sensorially by the Swiss Olive Oil Panel at the ZHAW. The top grade «very good» went to Manor's organic olive oil at CHF 21.50 per litre; Iliada at Coop, CHF 21.90 per litre, also scored «very good». Two oils fell back: Lidl's Primadonna only met the «vergine» level rather than «extra vergine» according to the test, and Ybarra at Denner, CHF 7.95 per litre, was judged sensorially insufficient. The experts' overall verdict was still positive: the quality of olive oil on the Swiss market is «very high» and clearly better than ten to fifteen years ago.

For contrast, and explicitly as a foreign test on a different sample: in the German Stiftung Warentest olive-oil test of 2026, only four of the twenty-five extra-virgin oils examined were rated «good» and eight were rated «poor»; in Switzerland, Beobachter was among the outlets that reported on it. Two panels, two baskets, two pictures — a good reason to read every test result together with its date and its origin.

Frozen pizza test: which Margherita convinced the jury?

On 3 March 2026, «Kassensturz» had eleven ready-made Margherita pizzas tasted. Only one convinced: Italpizza «Numero Uno» at Coop with grade 5.2, judged close to a restaurant pizza, though the base was slightly too thick. Three products failed: Denner's Mmmh pizza on cheese quality, a gluten- and lactose-free Buitoni for dry, hard edges, and the Betty Bossi pizza — Betty Bossi belongs to Coop — for rubbery dough. The programme's conclusion was awkward for the freezer aisle: making your own is worth it.

Passata, bouillon and jam: do the budget lines really win?

In these three consecutive tests, yes — and that is the most interesting finding of the year. In the passata test of 2 December 2025, of twelve products, Longobardi and M-Budget (both Migros) led at 16 centimes per 100 grams, described as harmonious, fruity-tomatoey and umami. The most expensive product in the test, Crispino Classica at Globus at CHF 1.38 per 100 grams, received the worst grade at 3.0. «Kassensturz» summed it up: good quality is available for a few centimes, and expensive does not automatically mean better.

In the vegetable bouillon test of 11 November 2025, of twelve products, Lidl's private label Kania won with grade 4.8 at 17 centimes per litre; M-Budget came last at 4.1. Prices in the test ranged from 17 centimes to CHF 1.16 per litre. The criticism applied to the whole category: as little as 4 percent vegetable content in some cases, plenty of flavour enhancers, heavily salted. And in the public tasting of eight strawberry jams on 29 October 2025 in Sion, where more than a hundred passers-by scored the products, it was Coop's Prix Garantie that won — one of the three cheapest jams in the test. Migros Bio came second; M-Budget and Aldi's Grandessa were at the bottom.

Bake-off croissants and Läckerli: what did the 2026 juries say?

On 13 January 2026, «Kassensturz» had ten best-selling bake-off croissants tasted, at prices between 83 centimes and CHF 2.47 per 100 grams. The winner was Migros' M-Classic organic bake-off butter croissant with grade 4.7; Denner's IP-Suisse butter croissant received the worst grade at 2.6, criticised for dryness and hardness. On 3 February 2026 came eight Läckerli, assessed by a four-person expert jury in Basel. Migros' «feinste Leckerli», produced in Gossau SG, won with 5.2 — per the programme, the same product is also sold as a Denner private label. Bottom of the ranking: Jakob's Basler Leckerly at 3.4.

Aceto Balsamico test: do you have to pay a lot?

On 14 April 2026, a five-person jury led by sensory expert Patrick Zbinden tasted twelve Aceti Balsamici di Modena IGP, priced from 34 centimes to CHF 2.60 per 100 millilitres. Ponti at Migros won with grade 5.1, praised for its balance and a long finish. Two organic products narrowly failed with 3.9 each: Alnatura (Migros) and Carandini (Manor), described as too light, too watery and acidity-heavy. The programme's conclusion: anyone looking for an affordable, well-balanced everyday aceto will find one.

Swiss crisps test: what is the most recent published result?

Here we have to be honest: between September 2025 and April 2026 we found no new Swiss crisps tasting. The most recent one we can document is the «Kassensturz» public tasting of 9 April 2024. Nine paprika crisps were rated at the Glattzentrum in Wallisellen, producing 1,044 valid scores. Tied at the top were Aldi's Snack Fun and Coop's Prix Garantie at 5.4 each, followed by Migros' M-Classic at 5.1 and Zweifel Paprika Original at 5.0. The worst grade, 2.5, went to the expensive Delicatessa product from Globus. As soon as a newer crisps tasting is published, we will replace this section.

Organic lines compared: where is organic cheaper?

That is a price question, not a taste question — and saldo answers it. In its analysis of 18 March 2026, the magazine compared a basket of 40 organic products and notes that while Coop and Migros have cut some organic prices, a large shop at Aldi and Lidl still comes out around 20 percent cheaper. The quality side is expressly not settled by that: in the September 2025 olive oil test it was a discounter oil that fell back sensorially, while in the bouillon test a discounter private label won. Price and grade are two different rankings — which is why they stay separate on this page.

How did each chain do in these tests?

This table is expressly not a chain ranking. Each row reflects individual products in individual tastings, with small samples and subjective sensory grades. A failed croissant says nothing about the same chain's meat counter.

Where do you buy the winning product cheapest?

Honest answer: it depends — and it depends on the week. A test winner is a quality verdict on a given date, not a price promise. That is precisely why the second step after the test is looking at the current promotions: Migros, Coop and Denner have started their weekly Aktionen on Thursday since 5 February 2026, while Aldi Suisse and Lidl Schweiz release offers on Monday and Thursday. Whether your test winner is on promotion somewhere this week is something you can see live in Rappn: over 10,000 current offers from seven chains (Migros, Coop, Aldi Suisse, Lidl, Denner, Aligro, Otto's), with price-drop alerts on individual products and unit-price comparison per kilo or litre. Free, in four languages, with no commercial agreement with any chain.

Two things that help. First, several of the winners listed here are private labels sold by a single chain — in that case it is not cross-chain comparison that decides, but the timing of the promotion. Second, the unit price is worth a look: for bouillon, passata and olive oil, prices per litre or per 100 grams in the tests differed by a multiple, while the grades were often separated by a few tenths.

How often is this overview updated?

Continuously. We add every newly published Swiss food test with its date, winner and source, and we replace older entries as soon as the same category is tested again. If a published test is missing here, either it falls outside our window or we could not verify it at source — the latter is why no number on this page appears without a date and a named publisher. Tests outside the food aisle are handled separately, for example in our laundry detergent test comparison.