Posted on 05/25/2017 9:13:51 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
When it comes to food, it turns out you can sue over just about anything these days.
A California woman is suing the makers of Jelly Belly jelly beans, claiming she was tricked into believing one of the company's candy products was free of sugar.
The plaintiff, Jessica Gomez of San Bernadino County, first brought the case against the candy company earlier this year, blaming "fancy phrasing" for her confusion over the ingredients, according to Legal News Line.
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Now here’s a woman who could use a lifetime supply of Sugar Free Gummy Bears.
No, it’s the one Mr. Pitt looking like Hitler and telling the board of directors that they will acquire “Poland Creek Water” at all cost - then giving a seig heil! salute.
The water isn't from there, either ;-)
“Jelly Belly sued by woman claiming she didn’t know jelly beans contain sugar”
Proof that the dumbing down of America is almost complete.
There is no question that the makers of this product were attempting to deceive customers. There is no reason to label “sugar” as “evaporated cane juice”, other than to deceive people who are specifically looking for sugar. And while it is tempting to declare this woman stupid, would she have been considered stupid if it had been “evaporated beet juice”? Or evaporated orange juice? In fact, I would submit that most people have no idea what “cane” is. And looking at the “sugars” part of the nutritional breakdown tells you nothing, since it doesn’t distinguish between free sugars (table sugar, etc.), and sugars that are still in their natural form (the sugars in oranges or kale).
This is blatantly deceptive. Does it warrant a lawsuit? Of course not. But this is as bad as labeling nitrates as “celery juice”. There is no reason to use these phrases, other than to confuse.
The nutrition information on the Sport Beans lists "Cane Sugar" as the first ingredient.
http://www.sportbeans.com/products/assorted_sport_beans.aspx
It also lists "Total Sugars" in the calorie counts.
Now, this is from their website as of today, so that's not to say that's what the information was on the Sport Beans when she was consuming them. That being said, she's still an industrial-grade idiot.
Stupid runs deep
Completely agree - and she’s not alone. The suit says that there is a potential class action for this.
Thank you for the info on the Sport Beans label. Not sure if that’s been changed recently either.
My brother lived in Fairfield Ca and every time we would visit we would go to the Jelly Belly factory because they had a store in front of it.
I’m suing Poland Springs for being Polish.
Not only that, my last bottle didn’t have any springs in it.
No Automobile springs, no pen springs, no screen door springs.
I’m gonna sue, too!
A California woman. Of course.
After reading the entire article, I'm going to say that the labels have changed since she started using them. There's no "evaporated cane juice" listed on the current labels, and the story mentions that in 2016, the FDA issued guidelines (not a law or a rule) that juice shouldn't be used unless it's from a fruit or vegetable, and that the use of the phrase "evaporated cane juice" in this case can be misleading.
However, the Jelly Belly company stated that "Total Sugars" was listed on the labels then, as now, and shows that the product is pretty much 100% carbs (25 grams, with an additional 80 milligrams of sodium), with no protein and no fat, and of the 25 grams of carbs, 19 grams (fully 76%) are from sugars.
If I'm on the jury, plaintiff and her attorney get bupkiss and Jelly Belly gets all fees associated plus damages for having to defend against this idiot.
It’s wet (undisclosed), it’s not from Poland, and it has no springs at all. TRIPLE DAMAGES! You’ll own the the bottler!
19 of the 25 grams of sugars listed are listed as "added sugars", which basically means they're adding processed sugar during manufacture.
Sometimes to add sweetness to a food item one will use a juice from a plant containg sugars in them. To divulge exactly what is added is the correct thing to do. There are other things in juices so that substituting the word sugar for the word juice is not giving enough information. The plaintiff is making a gross discernment error and this action could be a signal to alert her friends, family, and possibly mental health authorities about her state of mind to be making the claim she has made.
Sorry, it was 25 grams total carbs. I should have stated that 100% of the sugars listed are added sugars, which means "processed", not "natural".
Very funny. Miss that show.
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