100% juice, with crushed beetles for color
from Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world to vegan@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 13:16
https://lemmy.world/post/48160210
from Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world to vegan@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 13:16
https://lemmy.world/post/48160210
I went shopping in a new store today. At first I was excited to find something with 100% juice that wasn’t absurdly expensive. But then I looked at the ingredients and saw cochineal extract, AKA carmine, AKA crushes beetles used to make things red.
I just don’t understand. You’ve got this juice, you could totally add beet juice for coloring and achieve a beautiful color. But no, gotta throw insects into it instead. As far as hidden non-vegan ingredients go, stuff from insects tends to fly under the radar. Yet I bet if more people were aware of what they were buying, even non-vegans would take issue with it.
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Wait til you hear about the Antarctic fish blood in the icecream
The what in the what, now?
They use gmo yeast similar to nooch now. Rare blood is expensive. If cows or chickens had that property we’d be fucked
aye, so, I just searched “Antarctic fish blood in the icecream” and did not find anthing but articles on icefish and some fish that has antifreeze for blood.
Id like to know more, whats the ingredient name?
WHAT?
Cochineal extract is mentioned before strawberry juice concentrate. It must be more than some ml.
Legally how can you state it is 100% juice when the first ingredient is filtered water, then you add the cochineal extract, and the acorbic acid. I mean it’s mostly juice but it’s clearly not 100% juice. I feel like this is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Some additives are allowed in small amounts, and the water is allowed because it’s juice from concentrate where you can add exactly the amount of filtered water that was previously removed to make the concentrate.
Ah that makes so much sense, thanks for clarifying! Manufacturers are legally allowed to lie to consumers, that’s much better!
Like how tic tacs are “sugar free” at “0 gm” per serving yet they are 94% sugar. At 0.49 gm per tic tac any amount of sugar is rounded down. Thanks FDA!
From the company’s point of view, this is not a lie. They’re following a legal definition that tells them what they can call their product. The law defines what 100% means, and a product falling under this definition can’t legally use e.g. names for diluted juice products, in the same way that it couldn’t be sold as milk.
100% juice
first ingredient filtered water
Water is just earth juice friend! And the beetle extract is just beetle juice! You have to know how to speak corporate
0% sugar my fucking ass. I hate shit like this. A tablespoon is ~12 grams of sugar. Your daily recommended (by the USDA, the people tasked with selling more agricultural products) sugar is 50 grams. So a mere 8oz of this shit has half of the sugar you are supposed to get in a 24 hour period but it’s 0%… fuck this lying bullshit.
You seem to be missing that it is 0% ADDED sugars. They are not lying about anything here (at least as far as we know).
Should they include the percentage for the 24 grams that come from fruit? Yes. Does that make the label misleading? Yes. Does that mean they are lying about there being no sugar in there. Absolutely not! In fact I’d say they are being very clear about where the sweetness comes from, as they should be.
Only in America
Is this not just… beetlejuice?
Beetlejuice?!
Beetlejuice!
I’m the ghost with the most, babe.