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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"
by 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 agoSome 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...