For Those Dumb Enough to Confuse Fruit Snacks with Actual Fruit

Never fear, dumb parents, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is filing a class action lawsuit against General Mills for supposedly misleading claims of healthfulness about Fruit Roll-Ups, Fruit by the Foot, and Fruit Gushers.

As CSPI admits, the snacks' packaging says they are “fruit flavored” (as opposed to real fruit) and the ingredients are listed as required. But apparently that's not enough in the way of disclosure. Maybe General Mills will have to rename them 'Toxic Yucky Snacks' to please the litigating busybodies.

Now if you want to talk about tricky food labeling, let's talk about juice. Have you ever gone down the juice aisle and realized how few of the cranberry juice drinks are actually 100% percent juice? Maybe one or two out of 15 juice drinks. I've had to learn my way around the juice aisle the hard way, and yet it's never occurred to me to sue anybody.