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[goodcow]

There's a can of Guava juice in the cafeteria here on campus, with a huge font saying GUAVA JUICE prominently displayed on the front.

Ingredients:
Filtered water, pear juice, apple juice, less than 1% of the following: guava juice, etc.

Why is this legal?

 

[Zaptruder]

Does it taste like Guava Juice?

does it look like Guava Juice?

does it claim to be 100% guava juice?

Is beef ramen made from beef?

 

[aoi tsuki]

i agree. It should be called "Guava Drink" or something engrished like "Guava Taste". Write the company and ask how they have the audacity to name their drink as such. Maybe you'll get a free six pack.

 

[mrklaw]

over here in the UK, there are restrictions on what you can call 'juice'. It depends on the percentage.

But its still very confusing.

Depending on if you have some juice, no juice, artificial flavours etc, you can call your drink

- apple Juice
- apple Juice drink
- apple flavour drink
- apple flavoured juice drink
- apple drink

all are different things BTW. Bloody minefield in the supermarket.

 

[Space Age Playboy]

I agree, they should put a stop to that. They do that with a lot of other juice too.

 

[KingGondo]

Know what annoys the hell out of me? How absolutely everything seems to contain corn syrup now. Why does apple sauce need corn syrup? Anyone?

 

[borghe]

yeah, you have to read the entire display label very carefully.. I am willing to bet it says "GUAVA JUICE cocktail" on the label or some such.

we have the same restrictions in the US. it can only be called juice if it is primarily made up of the juice it is called.. otherwise it has to be called drink, cocktail, or somesuch. they can still use juice in the name, but then it says "guava juice cocktail", guava juice "a refreshing drink", gauava juice "a refreshing juice cocktail" or somesuch.

 

[acidviper]

There's a can of Guava juice in the cafeteria here on campus, with a huge font saying GUAVA JUICE prominently displayed on the front.

Ingredients:
Filtered water, pear juice, apple juice, less than 1% of the following: guava juice, etc.

Why is this legal?

Cuz you are a moron. Learn the label guidelines.

If you say "contains" that can mean anyy amount.

If you say an "excellent source of" it has to be a large chunk of daily values

"Good source" of is less but significant.

"Lite" as in beer or cigarettes does not mean anything

"Low fat" less fat than the original product

"Fat free" less than 1% fat.

So the advertisers are smart. You don't know shit.

Cholesterol free is my favourite. You see it on apples and oranges.

 

[borghe]

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfCFR/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=102.33

 

[borghe]

Cholesterol free is my favourite. You see it on apples and oranges.

cholesterol is great.. if people would just get it..

there is no cholesterol in non-animal products
there is cholesterol in almost all animal products

 

[Phoenix]

There's a can of Guava juice in the cafeteria here on campus, with a huge font saying GUAVA JUICE prominently displayed on the front.

Ingredients:
Filtered water, pear juice, apple juice, less than 1% of the following: guava juice, etc.

Why is this legal?

If all it says is "Guava Juice" then yes it is illegal and its still being done because no one has challenged them on it. You're impacted by it so you have standing and can complain and have them change it

 

[Warm Machine]

I once bought a bag of pistachios with ingredients that read... "May contain peanuts"

 

[Escape Goat]

I once bought a bag of pistachios with ingredients that read... "May contain peanuts"

I think most foods that contain some of the bigger allegens give warnings.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

I once bought a bag of pistachios with ingredients that read... "May contain peanuts"

Alright, you are a nut company, you want to save costs, do you put all packaging for all your nuts in one factory, or split up the pistachio and peanut factories? They are just trying to escape liability because of evidence that the peanuts can still have their harmful effects on people when packaged in the same factory.

 

[teiresias]

I once bought a bag of pistachios with ingredients that read... "May contain peanuts"

You think you're smart and witty, but you're not, oh, no sir, you're not.

 

[Warm Machine]

You think you're smart and witty, but you're not, oh, no sir, you're not.

I shit you not, that is what the ingredients read. But lots of dry goods may contain peanuts because they use the same assembly lines for production. Cereal being the biggest offender.

Edit: Yeah, what Jazz said

 

[Naked Snake]

I love the Gauava fruit, so damn yummy to eat, and we have some really good Gauava juices here.