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> The suit filed by the Illinois woman focuses on her perception that strawberries "protect your heart, increase HDL (good) cholesterol, lower your blood pressu

> The suit filed by the Illinois woman focuses on her perception that strawberries "protect your heart, increase HDL (good) cholesterol, lower your blood pressure and guard against cancer." But the filling actually contains more dried pears and apples, the suit contends, and she was expecting the health benefits associated with strawberries. Anybody who actually believes that eating unfrosted strawberry Pop Tarts, with 190 calories, 12g of added sugar, 180mg of sodium and 3g of saturated fat in each pastry, is going to be good for cardiovascular health and guard against cancer should be laughed out of court and ordered to complete a basic nutrition course.

Johnny555 5y ago
Anybody that really cared about getting their fruit intake from processed food would be looking at the ingredients. Here's the ingredients from the "healthier" whole grain poptarts: whole wheat flour, sugar, corn syrup, enriched flour, dextrose, soybean and palm oil, bleached wheat flour, polydextrose, glycerin. contains 2% or less of fructose, wheat starch, calcium carbonate, salt, leavening, vegetable juice for color, dried pears, dried apples, dried strawberries, sodium stearoyl lactylate, citric acid, modified wheat starch, datem, cornstarch, gelatin, xanthan gum, brown rice syrup, paprika extract color, soy lecithin, vitamin a palmitate, niacinamide, reduced iron, vitamin b6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), vitamin b2 (riboflavin), vitamin b1 (thiamin hydrochloride). Less than 2% contains any fruit at all, and there's more salt than fruit in that 2%. Her lawsuit seems focused on the fact that there's more pear and apples than strawberries, which seems irrelevant given how little fruit is present at all. 2% of a 48g Pop Tart is less than a gram, an average strawberry weighs 25g. She could slice up a single strawberry and eat a sliver each day for a month and consume more strawberry than she'd get by eating a Pop Tart each day.
- jdmichal 5y ago
  Some corrections: Dried fruit is drastically more concentrated than fresh fruit. By weight, fruits are largely water. "2% or less" means each individual ingredient is under that threshold, not the sum of them. "2% or less" also means that the following ingredients do not necessarily need to be ordered by weight. Even if they are listed by weight, there are three dried fruits and only one salt. The sum of their weights could easily outweigh the salt. See § 101.4 (2): https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2006-title21-vol2/xml/CFR-2006-title21-vol2-sec101-4.xml https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2006-title21-vol2/xm...

Johnny555 5y ago

Anybody that really cared about getting their fruit intake from processed food would be looking at the ingredients. Here's the ingredients from the "healthier" whole grain poptarts: whole wheat flour, sugar, corn syrup, enriched flour, dextrose, soybean and palm oil, bleached wheat flour, polydextrose, glycerin. contains 2% or less of fructose, wheat starch, calcium carbonate, salt, leavening, vegetable juice for color, dried pears, dried apples, dried strawberries, sodium stearoyl lactylate, citric acid, modified wheat starch, datem, cornstarch, gelatin, xanthan gum, brown rice syrup, paprika extract color, soy lecithin, vitamin a palmitate, niacinamide, reduced iron, vitamin b6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), vitamin b2 (riboflavin), vitamin b1 (thiamin hydrochloride). Less than 2% contains any fruit at all, and there's more salt than fruit in that 2%. Her lawsuit seems focused on the fact that there's more pear and apples than strawberries, which seems irrelevant given how little fruit is present at all. 2% of a 48g Pop Tart is less than a gram, an average strawberry weighs 25g. She could slice up a single strawberry and eat a sliver each day for a month and consume more strawberry than she'd get by eating a Pop Tart each day.

jdmichal 5y ago
Some corrections: Dried fruit is drastically more concentrated than fresh fruit. By weight, fruits are largely water. "2% or less" means each individual ingredient is under that threshold, not the sum of them. "2% or less" also means that the following ingredients do not necessarily need to be ordered by weight. Even if they are listed by weight, there are three dried fruits and only one salt. The sum of their weights could easily outweigh the salt. See § 101.4 (2): https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2006-title21-vol2/xml/CFR-2006-title21-vol2-sec101-4.xml https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2006-title21-vol2/xm...