American lawyers filed a class action lawsuit this summer against Dreamfields, and the settlement papers were filed on Monday. The company gave up even before the trial and confessed. Their fine will be $7.9 million. Most of the money is reserved for reimbursing customers. If you bought the fraud pasta between 2004 and 2014 you are entitled to get your money back.
Law360: Pasta Maker Forks Over $8M In Low-Carb Labeling Deal
You read the time frame right. Dreamfields has continued with this blatant fraud for TEN YEARS and the brand has been a best seller. The makers have destroyed health and weight effects from a low-carb diet for countless people.
Dreamfields will now change the labeling for their product to something less deceptive. But there are still thousands of low-carb frauds out there that are just as bad from other companies.
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Here's another thing that bugs me about highly processed foods:
Every manufacturer brags about the quality of the ingredients used in their products, but I learned early on, as a supplier of food grade corn, to chip and tortilla manufacturers, that when choosing ingredients for a production line (at least this is true for the high-volume ingredients used in any product), buyers will virtually always choose price over quality. Better quality rarely sells (even if it costs only slightly more) — lower price will get you in the door in a heartbeat.
You can provide the highest quality raw ingredients in the world, but unless they are priced competitively with the cheapest ingredients of that type that are available from any other competitor, your sales will languish. So what does this say? It says that if the processed foods we are eating actually contain the best ingredients available (as stated on the label), it's purely by accident, not design.
Tex
Every manufacturer brags about the quality of the ingredients used in their products, but I learned early on, as a supplier of food grade corn, to chip and tortilla manufacturers, that when choosing ingredients for a production line (at least this is true for the high-volume ingredients used in any product), buyers will virtually always choose price over quality. Better quality rarely sells (even if it costs only slightly more) — lower price will get you in the door in a heartbeat.
You can provide the highest quality raw ingredients in the world, but unless they are priced competitively with the cheapest ingredients of that type that are available from any other competitor, your sales will languish. So what does this say? It says that if the processed foods we are eating actually contain the best ingredients available (as stated on the label), it's purely by accident, not design.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.