Posted on 04/27/2012 6:27:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Marketing Nutella as healthy was deceptive, woman claimed
A San Diego woman who claimed Nutella deceived consumers by marketing their product as healthy won a class-action lawsuit on Friday.
Athena Hohenberg filed the lawsuit against Ferrero USA, Inc. the makers of the chocolaty hazelnut spread last February.
Hohenberg said she learned through the grapevine what ingredients where actually in Nutella. She was surprised that the nutritional value in the spread "was the next best thing to a candy bar," read her complaint.
At the time, Hohenberg was serving the spread to her four-year-old daughter, and didn't realize the product contained about 70 percent saturated fat and processed sugar by weight.
Advertising deceptively showed a mother feeding the spread over fruit and bread to "happy, healthy children." Ferrero USA, Inc. settled for $3.05 million in the California Southern District Court. The money will be distributed to people who purchased Nutella in California between August 1, 2009 and January 23, 2012 or in any other state between January 1, 2008 and February 3, 2012. The iconic Nutella jar will look a little different after this settlement. Nutella can no longer call itself "An example of a tasty yet balanced breakfast," as it has on its back panel for years.
Nuts! There is more than one John Edwards out there. Unfortunately.
Ohmigosh! All of Germany is being done in as we speak! That’s all they eat there. I hope she gets a $10 check and nothing more. Who doesn’t know it is made of CHOCOLATE? Duh.
Of the $3.05 million, you can bet $3 million is going to the class action lawyers.
This woman and her slimy attorney should both be drowned in a delicious, chocolatey vat of Nutella.
Chocolate. And wall paper paste. And radioactive ant particles. And that’s just the good stuff.
Exactly. I first had this stuff while in Germany. Any moron who ever thought that it was “healthy” can’t be very bright and probably doesn’t even know what the definition of “healthy” is.
Hey lady, it’s CHOCOLATE and NUTS, duh it’s a spreadable candy bar. I think chocolate and hazelnuts would be a fine breakfast lol No worse than cereal which is sugar and carbohydrates (same thing lol). Most cereal nowadays seems to be miniature cookies anyway. People have been eating Nutella for decades with no ill effects.
>> Any moron who ever thought that it was healthy cant be very bright
Yeah! It’s obvious that it’s no good for you, unlike, say, glazed donuts. Or butter.
Wait... candy bars aren’t healthy ?!?!
Wait... candy bars aren’t healthy ?!?!
>> Of the $3.05 million, you can bet $3 million is going to the class action lawyers.
Wouldn’t it be fun to hang them *all* — plaintiff and her lawyers alike — from hooks, in a barn, and use those thingies they use to force-feed grain to geese to stuff them full of Nutella? Then cut out their livers and pack them into pate cans.
(I’m sort of mean and sadistic when it comes to irresponsible liberals and their lawyers.)
So, they sold this food without listing the ingredients or having a nutritional label?
>> I’m sure the ingredients and nutritional information are on the package.
You don’t expect the plaintiff to read, and think, and take responsibility for her *own* actions — do you?
When there’s a perfectly good *state* lying around to protect her?
~shame on you!~
That was my thought. What mother today doesn’t know to read the labels. Just the additives alone are enough to make it dangerous.
Sorry. It's the editor gene.
When will we start decorating lampposts with these vermin?
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