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Planters Peanuts: What’s really in the mix?
April 14, 2012 | Author admin
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 the rest of this entry »
Posted in Labeling Trickery, Not as Pictured | 
Tags: Planters, Planters Mided nuts, Planters Peanuts | 
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Caramel Colored Cancer
March 29, 2012 | Author admin
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 the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hazardous Chemicals, The Truch About... | Tags: ammonia, cancer, cancer causing agent, cancer warning label, caramel color, Caramel Coloring, chemicals used in food, FDA, hazardous foods, soda, soda recipe, State of California, sulfites | Comments Closed
Too Many Olive Oils, So LIttle Time
March 21, 2012 | Author admin
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 the rest of this entry »
Posted in Labeling Trickery, The Truch About... | Tags: extra virgin olive oil, olive oil, refined olive oil, virgin olive oil | Comments Closed
Planter’s Nut-rition – Built for a LESS Healthy Lifestyle
March 4, 2012 | Author admin
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 the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hazardous Chemicals, Labeling Trickery, Suspicious Claims | Tags: Planter's Nut Mix, Planters, Planters Nut-rition | Comments Closed
Dimpled Bottom Packages Make the Manufacturers World Go Round
February 4, 2012 | Author admin
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 the rest of this entry »
Posted in Packaging Problems | Tags: Arrowhead, Hadley, Orville Redenbacher, packaging | Comments Closed
