Attorney Spencer Sheehan demands the court award him $5 million damages in a lawsuit designed to force Kellogg’s to emblazon the true fruit content of strawberry Pop-Tarts on the box. The suit claims that strawberries are not even the main fruit in strawberry Pop-Tarts.
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28 replies on “$5 Million Lawsuit Demands Kellogg’s Strawberry Pop-Tarts Label Reflect Actual Fruit Content”
My favorite poptart is the unfrosted strawberry, toasted to a golden brown, then slathered with butter. Now that’s good eatin’!
Frosted cinnamon and sugar pop tarts… only.
I guess I’m out of the club. I grew up on the cinnamon-sugar pop tarts without frosting.
Everyone has skeletons in their closet. 😉
HEATHEN!! MONSTER! Buuuuuurrrrn the witch!!
LOL – But the question is, do I weigh more than a duck?
why can’t these people just let us have fun?? This guy is psessed by satan. I haven’t eaten a Pop Tart in at least 30 years but I remember loving them as a youth. This guy should sue Hot Pockets for the oral damage done to millions of people when they pick up what seems to be a warm, tolerable snack and bite into what could be considered a cast metal mold with a core that’s 5000 degrees.
I am sure you have seen Jim Gaffigan’s routine on Hot Pockets. if not, please do.
I have but he was only voicing what the multitudes of us couldn’t say because our tongues were inoperative after being exposed to the molten lava inside of a Hot Pocket. LOL
If the info on the packaging of the Pop Tarts was sufficient for this lawyer johnnie to find out they contain little actual strawberry, then surely it was sufficient for anyone else who cares enough to find out to do so.
So, did the lawyer note that he read the box ingredient list, which must follow the regulations set forth in the International Food Information Council and US Food and Drug Administration “Overview of Food Ingredients, Additives and Colors” document, dated November 2004 and updated April 2010, which clearly and understandably states the following:
“A. Food manufacturers are required to list all ingredients in the food on the label. On a product label, the ingredients are listed in order of predominance, with the ingredients used in the greatest amount first, followed in descending order by those in smaller amounts. The label must list the names of any FDA-certified color additives (e.g., FD&C Blue No. 1 or the abbreviated name, Blue 1). But some ingredients can be listed collectively as “flavors,” “spices,” “artificial flavoring,” or in the case of color additives exempt from certification, “artificial colors”, without naming each one. Declaration of an allergenic ingredient in a collective or single color, flavor, or spice could be accomplished by simply naming the allergenic ingredient in the ingredient list.”
Directly from the Kellogs Box (Yeah, I went there, and typed that!)
Ingredients: Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, vitamin B1 (thiamin mononitrate) vitamin B2 (riboflavin), folic acid), corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, soybean and palm oil (with TBHQ for freshness), sugar, bleached wheat flour.
Contains 2% or less of wheat starch, salt, dried strawberries, dried pears, dried apples, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, monocalcium phosphate), citric acid, gelatin, modified wheat starch, yellow corn flour, caramel color, xanthan gum, cornstarch, turmeric extract color, soy lecithin, red 40, yellow 6, blue 1, color added.
So, if the plantiff knows the FDA law and regulations, and read the label on the box, Kellogs C L E A R L Y states the ingredients in decending ordert.
IF the plantiff found there is 0% “dried strawberries” in the Strawberry flavored pop tart, then a case for fraud could be made.
If you made it this far, you could clearly see I’d have my tongue in cheek except that there is a brown sugar cinnamon pop tart in the way.
Have a great weekend full of fun and pop tarts and screw that lawyer!
https://www.fda.gov/food/food-ingredients-packaging/overview-food-ingredients-additives-colors
Back in the 60’s, my friend and I use to raid his moms pantry for Pop Tarts, and then finish the entire box…no matter the flavor or if it was frosted or not. I hadn’t had them for a very long time until I saw this video…cherry frosted, ummm…
When I make bread, I use 4 tsp of sugar to 2 1/4 cups of flour. That’s 3.7%. Plus. I add LOTS of raisins. Also, “natural flavor” need not contain *any* actual fruit.
I don’t have a dog in this hunt. I’m not a strawberry fan. If that’s the last fruit (or fruit flavored thing) on the shelf I probably won’t buy it. If I’m handed something like that I’ll eat it without complaint but it will never, ever be my first choice.
Sorry. I like Pop Tarts as much as anyone, but not the strawberry flavored ones. I prefer blueberry or cherry.
Scott’s description of how his grandmother used to shop based on trusted producers instead of reading labels reminded me of my sister’s theory on when our society started going downhill. As kids, I can’t remember ever hearing about fears of too much fat or sugar or preservatives. It hadn’t been too long since people had lived more or less hand to mouth, and fat, sugar and a way to keep food from spoiling were all seen as wonderful things. But when Do-Gooders starting pressuring companies to make everything low fat, low sugar, low sodium, and without preservatives, it more or less ruined the taste of food. My sister’s theory is that people are so angry and upset today because they are just pining away in their souls for some good home cooking, or at least some good old-fashioned fat-and-sugar-and-preservative-filled meals. It makes about as much sense as anything, I think.
Arg….
Learn how to make dutch oven cobbler.
Oh dear. I never thought I was a communist, or unAmerican in any way, and yet I prefer bagels to PopTarts.
Please don’t kick me off your site!
A good bagel is a wonderful thing. Only thing I really miss from NYC suburban living.
Mmmm. Bagels. Garlic. Apple cinnamon. Everything. Cinnamon crunch.Darn you! Now I have Go get some. But yes, I enjoy pop tarts.
I despise PopTarts — always have. They are nasty, dry little things in my opinion.
BOO BOO, Happy Halloween 🙂
I always assumed that the #1 ingredient in Pop Tarts was sugar. Wait, have I been wrong all these years?
My go to was always the Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon. Honestly, I didn’t know until looking it up just now that they made an Un-Frosted version. Who would buy such an abomination?
But to reiterate from BackStage – this needs to be thrown out of court and quickly. This type of BS lawsuit is a plague. It’s called Junk Food for a reason. What’s next, suing Oreo because there is no actual cream in the creme filling?
To paraphrase Bloom County from years ago – Bailiff, kick this yahoo in the butt.
My Brother from a Different Mother!!!! Brown Sugar Pop Tarts are the king of pop tart land. In my 20’s when my metabolism was capable of handling such things, a cheap lunch would be a box (yes box….all 6) of the BSPTs and a pint chaser of Half and Half. Out of the house for the first time, low on funds, and this lunch was chocked with fats, grains (arguably) sugars (duh), and milk proteins.
I don’t think my metabolism was ever that good. Though a whole pizza was a normal dinner.
To paraphrase Cheech and Chong’s comedy album Big Bambu….”Bailiff, Whack his pee pee!”
Grape Pop-Tart! GRAPE!
Anyone who has had one in the last 40 years knows that the fruit content is statistically zero.
What sucks is that you can make money suing companies for things like this. I mean … is the fruit content ON the label? Probably. It’s just not in the name.