Not to make a serious post too much but remember how angry everyone rightly was about bread companies adding sesame because it's cheaper to poison people than clean your machinery?
Yeah well it's happening in other foods. I already posted about Kellogg's doing it to cereal bars and Austin Snack Crackers but now it's in greens CVS granola bars and Jenny Fucking Craig cheesecake which btw record level they added EVERY allergen to that shit.
Anyway if you have allergies be fucking careful because we're expendable and if you don't please get fucking angry for us. They're already making your food worse to save money but they're also going to kill someone this way.
It is! But this is a legal loophole being exploited by the companies.
From my understanding, companies are required to thoroughly clean equipment of major allergens between products. That takes time and money and it's a lot cheaper and easier to say something has an allergen than to clean it.
But the FDA won't let you add anything to the ingredients that's not actually an ingredient. I can't just say there's coconut in my oat milk before i used the blender before to make coconut milk.
So they add a small amount, more than a trace but not enough to cost any significant amount or mess with the end result too much and oh look, now it's part of the recipe. No cleaning needed, it just uses peanut flour, how convenient!
In short, it's not cross contamination when it's an ingredient.
Adding another clarification reblog - this is not just about sesame, sesame was the major inciting incident in January. The granola bars add peanut butter so they don't have to maintain a higher cleaning standard due to shared equipment.
The cheesecake adds every nut oil on this very Earth for the same reason.
Kellogg's has been doing this since 2016 btw
This is just pretty awesome actually thank you
[ID: First photo shows a granola bar box labeled “Gold Emblem” followed by “Chewy Dipped Chocolate Chip Granola Bars.” White writing on a red background with images of a chocolate covered granola bar and a small bowl of chocolate on the left. /End ID]
[ID: Second photo shows the nutrition label for the granola bars, and under allergy information it lists “almond, coconut, milk, peanut, soy, wheat.” It also reads “may contain other tree nuts not listed” a few lines down and separate from allergen information. /End ID]
[ID: Third photo shows a package labeled “chocolate truffle cheesecake” on a dark pink background with a chocolate cheesecake pictured on the left side. /End ID]
[ID: Fourth and final photo shows the allergen label for the chocolate truffle cheesecake and lists allergens as “almond, cashew, coconut, egg, milk, peanut, pecan, soy, walnut, wheat.” /End ID.]
[ID: A series of tags has been screenshotted and added with the tag poster’s username not visible. It reads in all lowercase “#honest to god tho im not expert but i feel like a legal case can be made against this. #fdas supposed to make them prevent cross contamination or at least i thought #and idk if the ada is applicable here but it covers allergies.” /End ID]
[ID: a screenshot reads “mudpuddlenl reblogged your post” followed by the tags “#gonna recommend people here the app soosee #it allows you to input dietary restrictions and allergies and then let you scan a product label #and it’ll highlight stuff that is you input #i.e. if you input peanuts as an allergy it’ll flag all peanut ingredients (including peanut oil) #of course companies shouldn’t do this in the first place but if you’re worried about not overlooking something on the packaging #just. check it out idk #it comes in several languages too!” /End ID]
