Monday, October 12, 2009

IS THIS LYING LEGAL


The other day my wife bought a half gallon of Smart Balance Fat Free Milk. They've got quite the advertising campaign going on just now and she had a generous coupon too, so she figured we'd try it instead of our usual Skim Plus or Over The Moon.

Out of habit, I took a look at the nutrition information and discovered that this "fat free" milk actually contains 1.5g of fat per 1 Cup serving!

For those of us accustomed to the WW scale of things, this makes 1 Cup of this stuff 3 Points instead of 2 Points for the brands it is unsuccessfully trying to mimic.

One wonders whether it's legal to promote a product with a significant fat content as fat free.

Buyer Beware!