Cheaping Out

When you buy a can of mixed nuts, you usually get a very significant amount of peanuts presumably because it’s a cheaper nut. Planters must have received significant feedback about their mixes being overly peanut-y (or they did other market research) and decided READ MORE

California Rules

Coca Cola & Pepsi recently announced that they will be changing their soda recipe to avoid having to use a cancer warning label in California, after the State of California added 4-methylimidazole, or 4-MEI) to their list of known cancer causing compounds. READ MORE

Pressed for Information

I’m like the guy in the Carl’s Jr. commercial that’s staring dumbfounded at the never-ending row of uncooked meat at the butcher counter except that I’m staring at the 100 bottles of olive oil trying to guess what might be good. READ MORE

Delusional Nutrition

Planter’s has decided to take their mixed nuts, which were perfectly healthy on their own (for the most part) and added in all kinds of little goodies mostly involving sugar, corn syrup, artificial colors and other fun chemicals and are calling it their “Nut-rition” line. READ MORE

You may or may not have noticed your food packages getting smaller and smaller – with prices staying the same or going up. Boxes are getting shorter and narrower, plastic containers are getting curvy and lots of new marketing ploys are trying to convince us that it’s all to our benefit, to make the package easier to store or hold or some other alleged convenience. And it all seems very sneaky. READ MORE