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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•8 months ago“Why do we have Fruit Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients and you go to Canada and it’s got two or three?” Goddammit don’t make me agree with RFKJr. With that said I have a feeling we’d disagree on how to rectify it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish39•edit-28 months agoAnything’s possible with lies. Here’s Canada’s label: https://smartlabel.kelloggs.com/en_CA/Product/Index/00064100492455#ingredients
minus-squaretroybot [he/him]linkfedilink4•8 months agoNo they list the ingredients on the front of the box. Fruit and Loops.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•8 months agoAlso, who the hell thinks cereal, least of all, fucking Fruit Loops, is some kind of health food?
minus-squaretenchikenlinkfedilink9•8 months agoMaybe in many cases it’s a difference in labeling requirements, and the content is identical? Definitely not saying always, but the way this is conflated regularly to promote quackery is disheartening. That said, US brand soda and corn syrup can eat a bag of dicks.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish28•8 months agoYou really think any kellogs cereal has “two or three” ingredients, anywhere? Canadian ingredients Sugars (sugar, maltodextrin) Whole grain corn flour Wheat flour Whole grain oat flour Degerminated corn flour Corn bran Oat hull fibre Hydrogenated coconut and vegetable oil Salt Concentrated carrot juice (for colour) Anthocyanin Annatto Turmeric Natural flavour Concentrated watermelon juice (for colour) Concentrated blueberry juice (for colour) Concentrated huito juice (for colour) Stevia leaf extract Vitamins and minerals: Iron Niacinamide Zinc oxide Thiamine hydrochloride D-calcium pantothenate Cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) Pyridoxine hydrochloride Folic acid
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•8 months agoAnd, for reference, the US ingredients list: Corn flour blend (whole grain yellow corn flour, degerminated yellow corn flour) sugar wheat flour whole grain oat flour modified food starch contains 2% or less of vegetable oil (hydrogenated coconut, soybean and/or cottonseed) oat fiber maltodextrin salt soluble corn fiber natural flavor red 40 yellow 5 blue 1 yellow 6 Vitamins and Minerals: Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) reduced iron niacinamide vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride) vitamin B2 (riboflavin) vitamin B1 (thiamin hydrochloride) folic acid vitamin D3 vitamin B12 Which is basically the same. Biggest difference seems to be the food coloring.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•8 months agoOnly because sawdust is a plentiful byproduct of other industrial activity. Allow rat meat in your pies and the rat turds will flow!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•8 months agoEven if it does, trading fewer additives for more outbreaks of easily preventable diseases is probably not going to be a net gain. I’m also curious how this kind of thing would be enforced if we also gut the departments.
“Why do we have Fruit Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients and you go to Canada and it’s got two or three?”
Goddammit don’t make me agree with RFKJr. With that said I have a feeling we’d disagree on how to rectify it.
Anything’s possible with lies.
Here’s Canada’s label:
https://smartlabel.kelloggs.com/en_CA/Product/Index/00064100492455#ingredients
No they list the ingredients on the front of the box. Fruit and Loops.
Also, who the hell thinks cereal, least of all, fucking Fruit Loops, is some kind of health food?
Maybe in many cases it’s a difference in labeling requirements, and the content is identical?
Definitely not saying always, but the way this is conflated regularly to promote quackery is disheartening.
That said, US brand soda and corn syrup can eat a bag of dicks.
You really think any kellogs cereal has “two or three” ingredients, anywhere?
Canadian ingredients
Iron
And, for reference, the US ingredients list:
Which is basically the same. Biggest difference seems to be the food coloring.
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Rat turds are expensive. Sawdust is much cheaper.
I pay extra for the flavor
Only because sawdust is a plentiful byproduct of other industrial activity. Allow rat meat in your pies and the rat turds will flow!
Even if it does, trading fewer additives for more outbreaks of easily preventable diseases is probably not going to be a net gain. I’m also curious how this kind of thing would be enforced if we also gut the departments.