Personally, I never felt the need to read the nutella label. I see 'chocolate hazelnut spread' and assume that it isn't terribly healthy.
“There’s no way to escape noticing that sugar is a major component of the product,” Flaherty said in her critique of the California law. “Anyone capable of reading should know how to check the food’s label for its ingredients,” which specify lots of sugar and fat.
@cornbreadninja they're starting to have it in lots of regular grocery stores (used to be only in specialty stores selling European products, like an Italian grocery store. which are rare outside of big cities.
It'll be in the, annoyingly, peanut butter section.
@cornbreadninja Right. Anybody capable of reading should know to ignore the lies on the front of the package, and read the actual truth on the back of the package. (Note: This comment contains crunchy, raw, unboned real dead frog.)
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I happen to think manufacturers should be held responsible for the lies they tell.
BUt what's idiotic is that it is not a lie. just -mildly- misleading. 'part of a nutritious breakfast' it's not exactly -not- nutritious. I mean frosted flakes is fortigfied with vitamins you know.
@Mitch That's not mildly misleading in my book. That's manipulative. In fact it's the opposite of the truth, which is that the breakfast is nutritious despite the interference of the Nutella.
@JasperLoy OK. how about chocolate? Nutella to me is in the spreadable chocolate family, even though I don't think there is anything -like- spreadable chocolat, I don't think there's any chocolate -in- Nutella.
The full ingredient list in order descending by amount in the product: "INGREDIENTS: SUGAR, PALM OIL, HAZELNUTS, COCOA, SKIM MILK, REDUCED MINERALS WHEY (MILK), LECITHIN AS EMULSIFIER (SOY), VANILLIN: AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR."
At some point some soda bottles (I can't remember the soda exactly) had 'cholesterol free: never had it never will'
@MetaEd OK. you're just the messenger.
@cornbreadninja I've heard that it is not that carob is inherently healthier than the same amount of choclate, just that it's stronger or something so that you don't have to add as much sugar when you do consume it.
@JasperLoy the point is that nutella is like a spread made out of chocolate, just not as dark, and doesn't harden, and could be mistaken for chocolate, but is not.
It's real. They can't metabolize theobromide. Milk chocolate doesn't contain enough concentrated cocoa to really cause a problem, but baker's chocolate will kill a pet.
that link is confusing: 1 ounce per 9 pounds of body weight for Baker's chocolate. a 30 pound dog (average?) 3 ounces of baker's chocolate is kind of a lot to eat.
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@cornbreadninja gah..can't people just.. you know..eat.
A recent question screaming for a smarmy answer: "Does this phrase mean what I want it to mean?"
@Gigili Sometimes I ask something about room X in room Y because I don't want to raise a commotion. But in this case, that is not the case which is why I wonder why you did what you did.
@MetaEd OMG there's a link I have to find for you. really. a shotr story that is entirely self referential...something like 'this is the first sentence of this story. this is the second sentence which would have come sooner if not for the first...' There's actually a plot (thin though)