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Elizabeth Russett from NY accuses the food giant of padding out strawberry Pop-Tart filling with cheaper pears and apples and demands 5 million smackers and force Kellogs to change its misleading labels

Okay, so, um, this is a really common industry practice for food, and particularly drink. Every single juice in the juice aisle says something to the effect of "from (fruit flavor) concentrate and other juice concentrates." Most of the time it will be apple or pear juice. Usually apple in my experience and then they also add concentrate from whatever flavor they want. Even 100% juice does this, and it's perfectly legal because it's "100% juice" not "100% whatever fucking juice flavor you bought". They do this because apple juice is cheap as hell and it makes a good filler since whatever other concentrate you add will overpower the rather mild apple/pear juice flavor.

And here it's even simpler, Kelloggs last I checked said they have fruit filling. Pear and apple are fruit. More importantly, for strawberry flavored pop tarts, do they taste like strawberry? Yes. There is no misleading advertising. They promised you a strawberry flavored rectangle that can go in the toaster and you got it.

EDIT: Also, if you're buying poptarts for "health benefits", I strongly suggest you find a nice wide mirror and take a long look at yourself.

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