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Food follies.(Selling it: goofs: glitches: gotchas)(Brief Article)

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| January 01, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

We're always amazed and amused by foods that showcase a certain ingredient but actually have little or none of it (a practice that's legal, though it can be deceptive). Juice drinks axe a prime example: There's grape juice that's mostly apple; peach-papaya that's based on pear: cranberry that's largely grape. Check out what's missing in the foods shown below:

* "Blasts your taste buds into butter oblivion," Blastobutter popcorn says. But it has no butter; only partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and natural and artificial flavors.

* Twice Baked Bacon & Cheddar 100% Real Potatoes have "smoky bacon bits." But if you're achin' for bacon, don't bother. Under "bacon" lurk the words "artificially flavored."

* White Chocolate Jell-O Instant Pudding & Pie Filling is indeed whitish, courtesy of ...

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