Posted on 04/15/2015 8:01:02 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Food and Drug Administration is tearing into several Kind fruit and nut bars, blasting the company's claims they are healthy.
Apparently there is a federal criterion for what is considered healthy, and Kind doesn't meet it, according to a recent FDA warning letter to the company.
The agency singled out the labels for four Kind bars: almond and apricot, almond and coconut, peanut butter-dark chocolate and protein, and dark chocolate-cherry cashew and antioxidants.
The agency took aim at several claims that the bars were "healthy," including that they were low in sodium and were a good source of fiber.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Not-so-Kind Nanny State PING!
this isn’t the same fda that approves drugs like Avandia, is it?
fda approves bird flu vaccine 2007 and nuttin happened without mass injections...
I hear tell about a tale a doctor was promulgating that his father died of it but, who knows what that quack was selling...
/johnny
Hey FDA, I read labels all the time that claim they are “tasty” when they are not.
Kind blamed the warning letter on nuts that have "nutritious fats that exceed the amount allowed under the FDA's standard," according to a blog post on the company's website. "This is similar to other foods that do not meet the standard for use of the term healthy, but are generally considered to be good for you like avocados, salmon and eggs."
Fruit and Nut bars, I thought they were talking about liberal hangouts, not a food product.
Mmmm... Kind bars are yummy.
Ordering more now.
I ALWAYS let a faceless bureaucrat on the take from any number of companies determine what’s healthy for me and mine.
Thanks for the ping!
Karma’s a bitch.
Check out what a anti-Israel leftist scumbag Kind Owner Daniel Lubetzky is:
The for the info - condi/bush funded his anti-israel foundation.....
I’ve had different ones of their bars and never liked any of them. It would suit me fine if they banned the products.
As long as the ingredients are accurately reported, who cares what the FDA thinks of them?
There is no consensus on what constitutes “healthy”.
There’s paleo, Atkins, low carb, low fat, high fat, Omega 3s, high carb, low protein, vegetarian, vegan, low glycemic index, gluten, leaky gut, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome- did I forget anything?
You read all this stuff and come to the conclusion that everything you eat is wrong. So pop a beer, light up a smoke, and have some bacon. Screw the FDA.
Don’t forget the Lara Bars.
What's not to like? Sling on some more natural (unsugared) peanut butter, and you're all set.
Guilty.
Just ate one of their “Dark Chocolate Chunk” bars...label says 150 calories with 45 calories from fat...that is less than 1/3 of calories from fat...wasn’t that the FDA recommendation in the past?!? Is the FDA being supervised by the FLOTUS now?
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