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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Awesome example of why we need the feds involved in nutrition standards, in spite of what the FREEDOM crowd says:

Outshine No Sugar Added Strawberry Fruit Ice Bars
https://www.outshinesnacks.com/en/products/frozen-...bars/no-sugar-added-strawberry

Third ingredient? Sorbitol. Which is another word for sugar. Not that they intend to confuse people, of course.

I'm all for people making their own food choices, but in order to do that, we need to have legit information. And we don't.
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Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol, which is a separate thing and likely can't legally be listed as "sugar" on an ingredient list.  Should the label include a detailed explanation of the difference between sugar and sugar alcohols?  Maybe.  But I don't think we are going to get dire warnings about every type of sweetener on food packaging, esp. on a snack with just a few grams of carbs.

Anyway, I don't think anyone is having serious weight and overall health issues caused by buying Outshine bars.  [/quote]

Our current food system allows manufacturers to sell things as healthy, aka sugar free, because they use sorbitol or aspartame or hfcs instead. It’s fraudulent.
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I don’t think HFCS counts as sugar free. Sorbitol and aspartame are sugar substitutes, but HFCS is a sugar. Consumers should learn to read labels. I read nutrition labels to see how many added sugars a product has or how much protein, etc. I don’t rely on ad claims as to whether something is healthy or not. People should educate themselves and not rely on a nanny state.[/quote]

Yes, government should never intervene to prevent companies from selling misleading and toxic health risks to consumers.  :roll:

We've already established that you support unlimited access to all tobacco products at all times, so you can just be ignored.[/quote]

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