New York woman sues Kellogg's for $5 million over Frosted Strawberry Pop-Tarts

[brooklynite]

ABC News

A woman from New York is suing The Kellogg Company for $5 million because she says the company's Whole Grain Frosted Strawberry Pop-Tarts product doesn't have enough strawberries in its filling.

Elizabeth Russett filed a class-action lawsuit on Oct. 19 with lawyer Spencer Sheehan against Kellogg's for falsely advertising the contents of its pastry. She now has 90 days to serve the complaint to the defendant, Kellogg Sales Company.

"The strawberry representations are misleading because the Product has less strawberries than consumers expect based on the labeling," the lawsuit says.

"The amount of strawberry ingredients is insufficient not merely to provide the nutrient benefits of strawberries but to provide a strawberry taste."

[jmowreader]

1. Oh lord

Anyone eating Frosted Pop-Tarts isn’t exactly into nutrition.

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. It never occured to me to expect

any amount of anything real inside a poptart.

[Doodley]

3. Time-wasting, attention-seeking, petty-minded, lawsuit.

[lagomorph777]

4. LOL - did she buy them at the health food store?

[Hugin]

8. I'm confident the folks in legal insisted at some point they wave a real strawberry over the...

big vat-o-red down at the plant. Just to be sure. Well documented and photographed event, I'll bet.

All these years... She thought strawberry meant strawberry. Silly, rabbit.

[Hugin]

5. Taste is subjective and cereal companies have been spraying metered dietary supplements onto their..

products for decades to ensure they match the package labeling without relying on the variations in ingredients.

So, non-starter. This is going nowhere.

[LonePirate]

6. She may be mocked for a frivolous lawsuit, but it might push the company to improve the product.

I honestly do not expect the company to increase the nutritional value of this product; but I personally see nothing wrong with a consumer using the legal system to make a company abide by how it markets its products with regard to human health.

[Champp]

7. If you will allow corporations to lie to you about food

then you will allow politicians to lie to you about any old evil shit, just like the Republicans have been doing for the last 20 years.

So don't be calling out a citizen who is calling out a Big Fat Corporate Lie.

Support plain, honest truth in food labeling, and politics.

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. IF she isn't just being a Karen, I agree with you 100%

[PatSeg]

9. Oh dear, someone really needs a hobby

Who comes up with that kind of crap?