Vegas Free-for-All - Food Labeling Laws

Food Labeling Laws

KayPea

Jun 16, 2013
12:52pm

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Originally posted by: BAGIANT
You would think that if apple juice was a higher listed ingredient than orange juice, that they would have to list apple juice on the carton.

They did list it higher on the carton. That's how you knew about it. They just don't put it in large letters.

RoadTrip

Jun 16, 2013
1:41pm

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Sunny Delight Fact Sheet

Ingredients: Water, High Fructose, Corn Syrup and 2% or Less of Each of the Following: Concentrated Juices (Orange, Tangerine, Apple, Lime, Grapefruit). Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Beta-Carotene, Thiamin Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Natural Flavors, Food Starch-Modified, Canola Oil, Cellulose Gum, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Sodium Benzoate To Protect Flavor, Yellow #5, Yellow #6

Sunny Delight: Produced an estimated $450 million in revenue for Procter & Gamble last year, said Gary Hemphill, senior vice president of Beverage Marketing Corp., an industry consulting and marketing firm. One-hundred-percent orange juice had sales of between $3.7 billion and $6.7 billion, according to various calculations. Sunny Delight is manufactured in Indiana, California and Atlanta.

Procter and Gamble: Established in 1837, The Procter & Gamble Company began as a small, family operated soap and candle company in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Today, P&G markets more than 250 products to more than five billion consumers in 130 countries.

https://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_Ingredients_in_sunny_delight

wrosie

Jun 16, 2013
2:17pm

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I used to like reading the back page of Consumer Reports where goods and oddities were sent in by readers. I remember one reader sent in a picture of her blueberry muffin wrapper, and in small print it said no blueberries. If I recall they used purple dyed apple bits and artificial flavoring.

I guess apples cost less than other fruits as I believe it's juice in the predominant juice in most other named fruit juices as well.

BAGIANT

Jun 16, 2013
2:39pm

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Found the same thing with a Pineapple-Mango- Guava juice. 2nd listed juice was orange concentrate. Still I like the stuff so I drink it. Love to mix juices.

Dan Svatass

Jun 16, 2013
4:18pm

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Corporations spend a lot of money lobbying government to defeat and avoid consumer protection laws. This is a classic example.

Consumer Reports reported on this particular dodge years ago.

alanleroyII

Jun 16, 2013
11:45pm

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Since Sunny D's #1 ingredient other than water is High Fructose Corn Syrup, it could rightly be called 'Corny D' .

JM2300

Jun 17, 2013
12:45am

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I remember once at a convenience store I bought a small orange juice and happened to look at the label while drinking it in my car.
1)- The juice was made from oranges grown in Brazil.
2)- The juice was processed and bottled in Canada.
3)- The juice was distributed by a firm in New Jersey.
...and...
4)- The juice bottle was labeled Florida's Best.

I don't read labels anymore.

bardolator2

Jun 17, 2013
4:28am

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Apple juice and grape juice are routinely used as the number one or two ingredient in products that advertise themselves as X% juice. The juice actually named on the front is often around 10% of the total.

Since neither the government nor manufacturers plans to do anything about this situation, we'll all have to knuckle down and READ if it matters what we put into our pie holes. If they had their way, we'd all be swigging straight Karo Syrup.

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