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Stupid food labelling. Food labelling for dummies. |
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Stupid food labelling. Food labelling for dummies.
Two of the latest I've seen.
On a jar of peanut butter, under allergy advice. Contains peanuts! On a pack of sausages, labelled clearly as '8 Thick Pork Sausages', approximately 8 sausages per bag! Name yours. |
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A multi-fruit drink that claims to be made from 100% Dutch fruit (riding on the wave of nationalism that inexplicably is flooding the Netherlands in the last couple of years). The obligatory - small print - declaration however states that the drink contains no Dutch fruit.
A Garibaldi type biscuit that claims to have a 100% fruit filling. The declaration shows there's only 3% fruit in the filling. The rest is sugar, gelatine and a trainload of E-numbers. However, a loophole in the EU food labeling regulations makes this legal. After all the filling is 100% of the filling. So called light products that indeed have a 30% reduction in fat that merits a "light" label, but contain enough sugar to keep a whole playgroup jumping around for days on end. |
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Yep. You've guessed it.
On a tin clearly labelled 'Wild Pacific pink salmon', allergy advice, 'contains fish'. On a packet of crisps. Contains : Wheat, barley, gluten. May contain: Milk, egg, soya, mustard. Well does it or doesn't it. It's just ridiculous. On my next loaf of bread it might say. Contains: Bread. May contain: A £20 note, a porn star with big tits, a 747 jet airliner, a great white shark, a tw*t called Boris, Cherie Blair's pubic hairs. FFS. |
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Yep. You've guessed it.
On a tin clearly labelled 'Wild Pacific pink salmon', allergy advice, 'contains fish'. On a packet of crisps. Contains : Wheat, barley, gluten. May contain: Milk, egg, soya, mustard. Well does it or doesn't it. It's just ridiculous. |
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Potential factory contamination, it's not ridiculous when people eating it may have severe allergies.
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Potential factory contamination, it's not ridiculous when people eating it may have severe allergies.
These 'I'm so clever' food labelling threads are usually written by people living in blissful ignorance of what it's like to try and eat with food allergies. Good for you if you don't need to know that something may contain traces of egg. I do, if I want to avoid a trip to hospital. And they wouldn't list whether a product contains things like porn stars or whatever - there's an agreed list of common allergens that have to be noted on food and for me it's a life saver. So just because you find it all a bit beneath you probably means you're very fortunate to be able to eat what you like. |
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I like,the serving suggestions which normally just show whatever the item is shoved on a plate.
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Contains celery and mustard.
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Ludicrous serving sizes so the calorie content seems a lot lower. Special K is 112 calories for a 30g portion, which if you measure it out, is less than a handful.
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Marks and spencers has some newish cooking sauces. The labels say - peel off for cooking instructions/recipe information.
This annoys me intensely. I want to see the recipe there in the shop before I buy it so I can see what else I need to buy and only when I know that will I decide to buy it. There is no point in going home, peeling off the label and then finding you need to buy other items to go with it! Grrrrrr |
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This, definitely.
These 'I'm so clever' food labelling threads are usually written by people living in blissful ignorance of what it's like to try and eat with food allergies. Good for you if you don't need to know that something may contain traces of egg. I do, if I want to avoid a trip to hospital. And they wouldn't list whether a product contains things like porn stars or whatever - there's an agreed list of common allergens that have to be noted on food and for me it's a life saver. So just because you find it all a bit beneath you probably means you're very fortunate to be able to eat what you like. It's a shame the bakery departments in supermarkets don't have this attitude I was nearly killed by a fresh loaf of bread because someone handled strawberries before bagging the loaf up. |
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I like,the serving suggestions which normally just show whatever the item is shoved on a plate.
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Marks and spencers has some newish cooking sauces. The labels say - peel off for cooking instructions/recipe information.
This annoys me intensely. I want to see the recipe there in the shop before I buy it so I can see what else I need to buy and only when I know that will I decide to buy it. There is no point in going home, peeling off the label and then finding you need to buy other items to go with it! Grrrrrr |
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Contains celery and mustard.
If I eat celery I get blisters all around the inside of my mouth, down my throat and in my stomach. It really isn't pleasant, and something these labels allow me to avoid |
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I like,the serving suggestions which normally just show whatever the item is shoved on a plate.
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A few years ago I bought some eggs from Tesco, on the inside of the box was a warning........
"May contain egg" I should bleedin well hope so
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This, definitely.
These 'I'm so clever' food labelling threads are usually written by people living in blissful ignorance of what it's like to try and eat with food allergies. Good for you if you don't need to know that something may contain traces of egg. I do, if I want to avoid a trip to hospital. And they wouldn't list whether a product contains things like porn stars or whatever - there's an agreed list of common allergens that have to be noted on food and for me it's a life saver. So just because you find it all a bit beneath you probably means you're very fortunate to be able to eat what you like. |
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This thread isn't about having a go at people allergic to certain types of food. Far from it. However, you've got to admit that putting 'contains fish' under allergy advice on a tin of fish (for example) is pretty daft to say the least.
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I think it may be because they have to by law.
People are not always as smart as you think - I've spoken to three different people recently who didn't know that margarine contained dairy! |
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People are not always as smart as you think - I've spoken to three different people recently who didn't know that margarine contained dairy!
After all, it's just a matter of reading the ingredients in most cases. |
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Buffalo Mozzarella
Contains Milk |
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What's to stop you peeling it off in the shop?
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because if what i saw made me decide not to buy i would feel bad about damaging something I wasn't buying.
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On a packet of peanuts:
Warning: Contains nuts
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