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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.[/quote]

They listed it on the box as what it is: sugar free.  I don’t find anything to be misleading and they aren’t calling it heathy.  An Outshine bar is a treat and meant to be a dessert. Something sweet when you want something sweet.  [b]At 90 calories and 4 grams of sugar, no one is getting over weight from too many outshine bars after dinner.[/b]  [/quote]
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They’d get diarrhea before they had any blood sugar issues.

Guys. Everyone knows that “sugar free” on a clearly sweet thing - popsicles, juice, yogurt, etc - means “fake sugar.” That’s what it means in this country. The phrase you’ll find to indicate that no sweetener has been added is “no sugar added.” This isn’t difficult.[/quote]

Except that the example cited above says “no sugar added.” So, no.[/quote]

I really doesn’t matter- at all.  You are arguing something that does not make a bit of difference in the big picture of obesity.  It isn’t a 90 calorie outshine bar that is the problem. [/quote]

Except that this is one example among thousands of manufacturers making claims intended to mislead consumers, and they're allowed to. PP claimed it isn't difficult to know what you're getting, and that "everyone knows" something. Only she was wrong, so clearly it's not that simple. Pretend it's entirely about personal responsibility, but it's not. That's only part of the issue.[/quote]

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