Posted on 01/28/2011 4:11:39 PM PST by Daffynition
Fake blueberries are usually plastic and can be found with other fake fruits in decorative arrangements or on bizarre hats.
Now, apparently, they can be found in food. A range of fake blueberries are in a number of retail food items that contain labels or photos suggesting real blueberries were used in the products, according to an investigation.
Sigh.
As if it's not hard enough to include fruits in your diet. Now you have to watch for fraudulent food.
The nonprofit Consumer Wellness Center reported Thursday that its investigation found "blueberries" that were nothing more than a concoction of sugar, corn syrup, starch, hydrogenated oil, artificial flavors and -- of course -- artificial food dye blue No. 2 and red No. 40. The offenders are well-known manufacturers such as Kellogg's, Betty Crocker and General Mills, and the fakes were found in bagels, cereals, breads and muffins. Some products contain real blueberries mixed with fakes. For example, the blueberry bagels sold at Target contain some real berries but the "blueberry bits" listed in the ingredients aren't real blueberries, according to Mike Adams, the author of the report.
Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats Blueberry Muffin variety has no blueberries but does have "blueberry flavored crunchies" made from the sugar-and-dye concoction mentioned above.
My personal favorite fraud is Total Blueberry Pomegranate cereal, from General Mills, which contains no blueberries and no pomegranates.
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but the bears got there first,
ate all the blueberries
Dummy here. They are plentiful on the farm next door.
Nobody ever told me you could freeze them.
This is my neighbor:
stritesorchard.com
If the word "marriage" can be redefined such that it retains no objective meaning, then nothing is immune from attack. Clinton's "is" hydra lives on. Otherwise how does one explain "fat-free half and half"?
Last year sometime I was looking at a container of ice cream and saw on the label what appeared to be an ingredient list (it was formatted to look like one). It said something along the lines of, "Contains: cream, milk, sugar, vanilla....". Looks so wholesome, natural, real.
However, in small print below this list it stated that the FULL ingredient list was located somewhere else (on the back panel IIRC). I mean WTH? Two ingredient lists? I had never seen that. It's one thing to highlight a particular ingredient or nutrient or so-called health benefit, but to plant a faux ingedient list?! So now you have to beware of abridged ingredient lists.
What with all the shrinking product sizes, where do they find the space?
A red flag is the word "real". "Made with real [insert ostensibly real food]". Depends what their definition of "real" is.
Lies are the coin of the realm. If the ingredients are an obvious lie, what about the safety and long-term effects of ingesting these products? Do. Not. Want.
Good pic. I love blueberries and like to bake. Good combination.
I ordered 28 new fruit trees for the family orchard on Monday and 4 southern highbush blueberry plants. Will have to doctor the soil here to get blueberries to grow, they require slightly acid soil and ours is alkali. Will peatmoss mulch the beds and add sulfur slowly.
I like fruit. We had a great plum crop this year and the persimmon crop was about the best I remember. Made lots of jelly and froze plum juice to make more later.
Ate my fill of ripe persimmons, froze ripe persimmon pulp and dried quite a few for the first time.
It will take a couple of years to get the new trees established, but I look forward to more selection after that.
That won’t be dependent on General Mills.
Another great pic, good thing I have already had supper. hee hee hee
bangin` our buckets with big metal spoons
to scare away the bears.
Love their frozen blueberries. My 9-yr old son checks for it everytime he helps put groceries away!
My Aunt Joanne lives in AK. In the foyer of her house is a HUGE stuffed bear (Black, Brown, Kodiak? I dunno...I’ve only seen pictures...) that she had to shoot while blueberry picking.
She didn’t WANT to do it, but it was him or her. :)
‘Blueberries for Sal’! A classic! :)
LOL.
Love your Aunt Joanne v bear story! She’s my kinda gal. :D
"Real blueberries are expensive; faking them is cheap, says Amy Kuras at The Stir.
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