• ynazuma@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    France, doing the right thing

    Producers always tout and advertise when they put more into the package, but fail to let us know when they reduce the contents

    This is common sense

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      5 months ago

      We recently had a local candy brand advertise that the packaging has gotten smaller, but still contained the same amount. So I guess that they over time had removed enough pieces, that the box started to look suspiciously empty, and they then shrank the box to make it look fuller

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      5 months ago

      Brazil did this years ago. We see in the package “new weight, from X to Y, reduction of N%”. And nothing actually came out of it. Everyone does, we have to buy it, shit stays the same.

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        5 months ago

        You don’t have to buy it though! None of the packaged products in a grocery store are necessities. You could live a very healthy lifestyle eating only the fresh stuff from the store!

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          it is my contention that you could eat any random items form the perimeter of the store and be healthier than anyone that buys items from the health food aisle.

          Food is an ingredient, it shouldn’t have ingredients

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                5 months ago

                Being mega pedantic, pasta has ingredients.

                But I understand your general point, you should be able to read the list of ingredients and understand what they all are right? Pasta being, flour, eggs, olive oil and salt is a much shorter list than whatever is in a microwave meal

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                  Once you start googling some ingredients it is very easy to see what things are for. People are surprised when you tell them chicken flavour is vegan. I still don’t think that is a bad thing.

                  Just cramming in 5 types of sugar and the daily recommended dosis of salt. That is what frustrates me. Maybe a list of purposes would help.

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                  5 months ago

                  pretty much.

                  it’s an oversimplification that works well enough. don’t get me started on flour though …

                  (I’m of the opinion that if it didn’t have parents it isn’t food either but that doesn’t need to be a conversation)