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Lousy Labels: Health Hype | Originally broadcast February 3, 2012
We find the truth behind the latest buzzwords on food packaging.
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[@iKickItLykeAdidas]

does anyone else in the u.s. remember seeing ads trying to say that high fructose corn syrup was healthy because it had corn?

[@bigira]

yeaaa lol

[@pavelcatraincalderon]

Yup totally

[@XanMan_05]

Yes I do! 😄

[@Eszra]

I remember seeing something.

[@jrgunderson7644]

pizza slice I'm to young

[@tonyhong20]

It's so funny how all company responses are so vague

[@houchi69]

Or didn't even answer the questions at all.

[@SavoirPlusX]

Do you think that it's easy to risk investors money?

[@123RADIOactive]

It's just a shame it's impossible for everyone in Canada to just simply boycott eating store bought foods and live off of foods they can grow and farm themselves. Which at this point is the only way to avoid these kinds of BS for the most part.

[@Bogie3855]

They got caught cheating. What would you expect? Deny deny deny...

[@louistournas120]

15:00 Carnation Breakfast Essentials. The guy says: Basically this is 9.5 teaspoons of sugar with vitamins and minerals added for good measure. The lady says : This breakfast thing has 1/3 more sugar than the Coca-Cola. The Breakfast thing is 315 mL with 38 g of sugar. The Coca-Cola is 237 mL with 27 g of sugar. Why is it 237 mL? Because the USA uses fluid ounce as a measure. 237 mL = 8 USA fl oz. I don't know why they chose 315 mL for the breakfast thing. 10.65 USA fl oz is not a round number. The lady says : Why do you market this as a healthy drink when it has 38 g of sugar per bottle? Answer: The product provides... a good breakfast choice with energy, protein and other nutrients...for the often rushed and on-the-go consumer.". Everyone is a politician these days. This is the kind of no-answer answer that I expect from a politician. Get used to it. A lot of people around us are politicians.

[@youtubian2500]

Hardcore canadian offensiveness: "Sorry, your label is lousy" Thems fightin' words

[@JSkyGemini]

Erratic, damn straight!! ~_^)b

[@idoesnothing9618]

What did you say about my food product

[@g41133]

😄

[@MrBeard17]

_"Nutrition has been the driving force behind kellogs since 1906."_ 100 years later and still trying..

[@lauriesoper4056]

Yes, there's a lie if ever there was one. Honesty: "Profit has been the driving force behind Kelloggs since 1906. We make our shareholders money in two ways: first, by getting everyone addicted to sugar by the time they are old enough to eat out of a bowl, and second, by driving down the prices we pay farmers for their grain. Recipe for amazing return on investment and stable growth year over year."

[@LuisMartinez-ih2oc]

Bruh Moment

[@freedapeeple4049]

They say "nutrition" has been a driving force; they DON'T say anything at all about GOOD nutrition

[@itachi2011100]

and it's being driven on a car made in 1906.

[@tobiasfunke3770]

bruh kellogs sells sugary cereal

[@systematic101]

I hate wonder bread but how is their label misleading? The label says "White bread with fibre". That's exactly what the product is. If they had claims something like "white bread with the nutrition of whole grain" then sure.

[@JoeStuffz]

The sad thing is that there's a flour called White Whole Wheat flour that has about as much fiber as whole wheat bread, and there's companies making bread with white wheat. It tastes fantastic, near the flavor of white bread, and is better in some ways

[@winslycan1309]

The ad said that Wonder+ gives joyful nutrition, so it is a false claim.

[@marcoconsonni5180]

@@JoeStuffz which other way?

[@JoeStuffz]

@@marcoconsonni5180 The bread is a little more firmer and less squishier than white bread, but not nearly as firm as wheat bread

[@judyives1832]

Making your own bread is easy and you can put good stuff in it. Making soup is also easy.

[@tonyolynyk2145]

I like how she asks Erica "what do i give my kid now" and she ignores it, i wish they gave healthy alternatives

[@kittenkiz3506]

Or yu know, if yu don't know anything about the litteral act that we need to do to actually survive, maybe just don't have children?

[@trapezius77]

Healthy alternatives? Things that don't come in boxes. Beans, grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds. Are Americans and Canadians ignorant and illiterate? These marketplace documentaries lead me to believe so. In super-wealthy powerful countries that is inexcusable. They deserve all the junk they get, because they can't be bothered to buy real food.

[@naritruwireve1381]

Isn't it kind of common sense that the less processed foods are, the healthier they are?...

[@drobles394]

Apples are my favorite snack. Golden delish apples or any apple of your choice can be a great, trusted, healthy snack. Always wash them correctly first.

[@andyjoseph4198]

@@drobles394 I'm hearing about washing apples with warm water or other method (washing or soaking in water with some vinegar) to remove the wax coating. What do you do? Personally, I haven't eaten apples for quite some time.

[@dmitryk53]

How about: if its packaged and doesn't look like a real food that grows or walks/swims assume its bad for you. Wtf happened to apples and bananas for snacks instead of nutrigrain bars?

[@MeeplandHeights]

dmitryk53 people are addicted to sugars and want to feel good about eating it. Instead of eating a candy bar they'll eat the thing that they can pretend is healthy (or are convinced has something healthy in it that will make it worth eating)

[@pedromillie]

It's a matter of convenience. Healthy food without preservatives or refrigeration can go bad very quickly. Very easy to just grab a bar snack or something similar and put it in your pocket or purse. Try that with an apple or banana. Bodybuilders get a bad reputation because of the drugs that they use to get big, but one thing that people should learn from them is that many of them know what foods to avoid. They eat a lot of healthy food.

[@Shybear1983]

Pedro Roman - THIS! Pedro is right, produce spoils boxed food can sit in a pantry caked in preservatives. Family's are busy and like to grab and go without running to the grocery store all time. Less housewives than 60 years ago to take the time to home cook, hence all these garbage, sodium packed frozen meals....

[@cidb.212]

Pesticides, GMO's and E. coli:(

[@thespiffingamerican]

back in my day we used to blow up pigs bladder instead of ballons

[@bread9173]

Always hated the nutrigrain bars. Literally just sugar. They always made my stomach hurt.

[@abbraxassk]

Anyone with a brain wouldn't fall for this marketing. How can sugar coated multi-color cereal be healthier than a fried egg.

[@somebodys7404]

Try being that busy mom who has a lot of incentive not to dedicate even a minute to figuring out the label, and I think you will not be so hasty to throw such sharp stones. To be sure, I agree with you that the nonsense the companies blabber is not hard to see through, thanks to mandatory nutrition breakdown and ingredients list. But we do well to keep in mind that these marketing techniques are heavily invested, highly researched, well-researched, and thoroughly deliberated attempts to manipulate human psychology, so we should not be surprised that they work.

[@somebodys7404]

@Jumbomuffin13 You missed my entire point, and your point isn't even logical. "If you're so busy, you should just use your own time to learn to make your own stuff." No, that's why they want others to make it for them.

[@Greywind920]

eggs aren't actually healthy and it's actually illegal to proclaim that they are.

[@somebodys7404]

@@Greywind920 Illegal in which jurisdiction? I've never heard such a thing

[@KainAbyss]

Fried eggs are bad for you, boiled eggs are better, and no more than 7 a week unless you plan to gain weight.

[@sallylee4924]

Real healthy food shouldn't even have labels.

[@kellyhe3012]

so true but so sad

[@allengrattafiori8978]

I wish I could get your show here in the states. I’ve watched almost 30 episodes on KZbin so please keep them coming! I’m so tired of corporations taking advantage of people who don’t either have time to research their claims or just don’t know how to look into tings! You guys are doing great work! Thank you

[@SapphireX413]

That bread label wasn't lousy at all.... it clearly described the product. It didn't claim to be whole grain, it clearly said WHITE bread with fiber.

[@braydenhaines5456]

Beckah Mataronas None of these are lousy! Some poor people slaved away finding which colours attract the most attention, what words appeal the most to consumers and how to put it all on the packaging!

[@syxepop]

LET'S BE HONEST HERE! With breads you CAN'T infuse them with much fiber / fibre, even if bakeries tried. The most fiber / fibre you can expect from ANY bread is roughly 10-15% of total weight for REAL WHOLE GRAIN DARK WHEAT, or 5g. of INSOLUBLE FIBER / FIBRE for each ~ 30 gm. slice. For oatmeal (don't know about the ground husks, but for the grains themselves) is ~ 3 g. of SOLUBLE FIBER / FIBRE per 30 g. slice or ~ 10%. If you want to find REAL FIBER / FIBRE, stick with the proven cold cereals (General Mills' Fiber / Fibre One with up to 55% INSOLUBLE FIBER / FIBRE from both wheat and corn and Kellogg's ORIGINAL All-Bran with 50% INSOLUBLE FIBER / FIBRE). And about Wonder's owner's, try their newer owners, Bimbo Bakeries, the US and Canadian arm of the Mexican conglomerate, North America's largest commercial bakery concern...

[@CyborgNinja7]

The consumer would be coming to the conclusion that fiber equates to other health benefits than the obvious. Fiber is not equivalent to whole bran with all its nutrients.

[@theslatonator6919]

Beckah Mataronas I was about to say the same thing. There was nothing inherently fraudulent in it. And people know that when they’re eating white bread, they’re sacrificing nutrition for taste, otherwise they’d just buy some of that gnarly frozen Ezekiel bread.

[@kennakinns]

I love Ezekiel bread. It’s all I buy. By choice!

[@Mark_Chandler]

pro tip....buy food with one ingredient and make your own soup

[@firebrandsgirl]

Haha wait, were we eating pizza pockets for health? Haha

[@Ohmykitten]

"Nutrition has been the driving force behind Kellogg's since its founding in 1906." You do know the guy who invented Kellogg corn flakes as a way to stop masturbation, right?

[@naritruwireve1381]

I saw a comment like yours just earlier and thought they were saying it as a joke, but now I'm starting to believe it isn't...

[@Wiredog71]

I love what you all do. I wish someone here south of the border would do a show like yours, but it seems they are all afraid of losing sponsors.

[@OTEP1234567891011]

+AJ Ketchum You need to watch Penn and Teller: Bullshit! then

[@Eric-lx8hp]

CBC is publicly funded television paid by taxpayers

[@robinlillian9471]

AJ: Once upon a time, they did do shows like this in the U.S. That was before Bill Clinton and the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which deregulated the media. Everything changed after that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

[@angelinacamacho8575]

found it on hulu :)

[@louistournas120]

Nature is full of "unpronounceable" chemical names.

[@anonymouslyshady7661]

LET'S BAN DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE

[@mayplaysgames7978]

Um that's not what they're talking about.

[@nettart4924]

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[@janedoe5510]

@@nettart4924 wasn't this named by humans 🙃

[@nettart4924]

@@janedoe5510 it's still natural though?

[@mchutube]

Healthy foods are not in packaged foods, period.

[@DropsOfJupit3r]

mchutube This is the kind of comment I was looking for. Correct, and practical; thank you!

[@apettyfamily]

So the wonder bread had fiber and advertised that it had fiber (not that it was whole grain) - how is that a lousy label?

[@mayplaysgames7978]

Cause people are dumb and they know it so they advertise high fiber and that makes dumb people think it's healthier

[@mayplaysgames7978]

It's called "wonder+" to dumb people that means healthy

[@jaywang7336]

After watching this, it makes me think that of all those times I saw the word 'extracts' on the ingredients lists, if those 'extracts' are just other words for more menacing ingredients

[@foxayfox]

I died laughing at the "Praeventia" cookies 😂😂 prevent heart attacks with heart shaped cookies. LOL

[@acbc3543]

My mom didn’t need a label to read . She cooked fresh food and I’ve become an adult who can read labels and eat healthy .Thanks, Mom !

[@jalalbcit]

CBC Market place by far is the only news that actually cares about people

[@EG-tf5wx]

"This is simply another way for moms to get some Omega-3 into their diet.." Pretty sure not just Mom's that are making this.

[@AJ287772]

There should be an app or website that can tell you if food is healthy or not

[@Pikachu-ho8rp]

Well everything has nutrients on it soo..

[@AJ287772]

BiikStar 123 yes, but some have good fats and others have bad fats. and if something has bad fats or sugar, I don't know if it's too much or its not as bad.

[@Pikachu-ho8rp]

+AJ287772 I suggest MyFitnessPal

[@AJ287772]

AG30 Squad ok i will check it

[@tati3861]

just learn what each term means. Don't be lazy.

[@TheEnixSquared]

I don't really think the pizza pockets one was all that bad, they weren't saying it was amazingly healthy they were just talking about how it was no longer filled with chemicals

[@XSpamDragonX]

Unpronounceable ingredients aren't inherently unhealthy. Everything we eat has some technical term that most people wouldn't know. There are a million things with completely regular names you wouldn't want to eat. What something is called has absolutely nothing to do with whether you should stick it in your mouth. As long as you didn't find it under the kitchen sink. ;)

[@rosevanillaberrychocolate5170]

@12:05 check the label there. They're making several other claims that most would consider to be found on "healthy" food.

[@smolshay]

Pretty sure it's filled with salt....which is sodium chloride....a Chemical

[@sleepycowboy18]

Marketplace's reveals makes me want to grow my own food, grow my own cookies, grow my own bread, grow my own fishes :v

[@noevilea624]

One word - Aquaculture. I`m about to start doing it myself.

[@debtoralive4693]

There is deception going on wherever they point their cameras. It is truly scary how we are always a moment away from being scammed. And sometimes we are being scammed without even realizing it. Be wary. Be very wary!

[@racpatrice]

🤣🤣🤣

[@cindy846]

Yeah, "grow a cookie" 😅

[@mementomorgan6721]

I love growing cookies and fish 😂

[@kaninbullenyt1803]

Respect to the last guy for accepting the interview and changing the packaging later 🙌

[@joseeliasps]

wtf?? the pizza pocket company didn't lie lol....they never claim it was healthy they just said it had real ingredients

[@mayplaysgames7978]

They didn't LIE. It was misleading, dumb people think it's healthier than it is

[@jacalynvoltz3077]

Nature

[@shubham-pawar]

Health conscious parents :- we want healthy food items for our children. Also health conscious parents :- I give my children processed meat and sugar filled artificial fruit flavoured nutrition bars and whatnot for breakfast and lunch.

[@bonzie321]

it’s pretty simple. The more a product labels itself “healthy” the worse it is. Period. Same with juice. The fruit they show on front, it usually has the least of in it.

[@garyholt8315]

totally agree !

[@AhmadAhmad-qx6fp]

Consumers are smart. Shoppers are dumb. What kind of insult was that?

[@annadartanagle104]

I live in Europe so I have ActiMel not DanActive and I knoxw that those yoghurts are just junk 'cause in my country we have better yoghurts than Danone's ActiMel

[@gee_emm]

processed foods aren’t so healthy. wow, shocker.

[@PonderingStudent]

A counterpart program with some examples of healthy products and of companies/products that demonstrate good, clear labelling would be helpful.

[@hottroddinn]

It's so frustrating to see that these companies don't answer the actual question and have buzzwords filled sentences when requested for comment. Canadians really need to pull up their socks when it comes to enforcing regulations.

[@benpoole9505]

for reference, here are the sugar levels presented in this video in terms of peanut butter cookies (A multi-continental measure). If you used the sugar in those bars, you could make ~20 cookies If you used the sugar in that juice, you could make ~26 cookies If you used the sugar in that drink, you could make ~3 cookies I'll look into other foods in this video later, but that's what I got right now.

[@nategreen6525]

Cool cooment

[@lormitfortmcmurray5633]

These are things people should already know. ANYTHING packaged is not nutritious or good for you, no matter what the labels say. Companies lie all the time, thats how they get you to eat and drink this stuff. Moderation is key here and it's ALWAYS a better idea to prepare your own foods.

[@RooftopRose079]

So for a healthier diet I should eat 3:28 potato chips, 12:08 Doughnuts, 12:10 and French Fries. Then wash everything down with 15:30 Soda.

[@mariaice9855]

I thought number 1 was gonna be the toddler drink called pediasure.

[@QiuyuanChenRyan916]

Been living with tenants and shared a house with a rented bedroom outside for 7 years, my food never got stolen in the fridge or in my cabinet. One reason was simple, they are all whole food so if you want to eat them you have to most likely clean them then shave them or prepare them. Then very traditionally cook them. So when I can eat them in my mouth that usually took one hour at the least, 3 hours at the most.

[@Healitnow]

Penalties for this must be more than fines. Automatic jail sentences for all corporate executives, business owners, and voting share holders must be mandatory for every offense. Also confiscation of corporate assets should be a judicial option along with the stripping of personal homes and bank accounts. The people that do this should also be forbidden to ever work in management again or to have ownership of any corporate shares ever again. By the way I eat only certified organic and am in great health at 65.

[@N3Y5A]

I really salute CBC for these investigations because I am sure that it is not easy to expose or even discuss such topics. Great job, guys!

[@BL-rb7jm]

Make your own pizza pockets from scratch. One day a week for making something from scratch and freezing it. We all live a busy, busy life, but if we can do one day, one product that will last a week, we're on a good start. When I was 15 years old, I was living in the country? I would can applesauce I would Can Peaches and beets Every week you name it I did it. I would Make homemade fruit leather in a blender. I put it on a cookie sheet and put it outsin the sun. I'm old now but I encourage the younger generation to do some Canning anning and to make your own homemade bread and learn how to do little Mini pizzas and learn how to do a lot of things that your grandparents did. My cousin, she's got a nice place. And she does the sameven in her older age . Try to teach your kids to do baking to do cooking to make homemade soup from scratch before they leave home. Years ago I remember talking to this seventeen year old Young lady and her mnever knew how to cook they ate always from the restaurants. And I thought she was joking. Her mother was sitting there and I asked her is this true. And mom said yes. So how healthy do you think this young girl is today.

[@janetmay2157]

the only problem i have with our labels is that they don't mention "added" sugars. I know the US labels are going to be changing soon to show that... but for something like fruit juices, you don't know what sugars are due to the fruit content versus added sugar content

[@Charlie-tb3jp]

how about people just eat real food?

[@elisabethnatasia5146]

ikr? just eat veggie, fruit, or meat! but the real one.

[@xXMetalforever1994Xx]

It's actually not easy to know what's good for you today. If you think you eat healthy food, you are kidding yourself.

[@wuggybuttz3923]

@@xXMetalforever1994Xx If it's from a Farm, Field or Forest, it IS FOOD If it's from a Factory, you can eat it, they'll call it food, it may resemble "food" but it has been Fabricated to take the place of Food.

[@somebodys7404]

@@xXMetalforever1994Xx Assuming you don't burn your food or add too much salt/sugar or oil, it's hard to cook with raw ingredients something as bad as anything in this video aside from the prepackaged soup, and even then you might still end up better off because fresher and likely less preservative.

[@mayplaysgames7978]

@@xXMetalforever1994Xx um no? I eat chicken that comes from my family's farm no preservatives, everything organic, brown nice that has nothing bad in it, and veggies that don't have sprays or GMOs. It's not that hard OR expensive

[@sjbobkins9442]

Great show, you need to sell the program to PBS. Americans have nothing such as this consumer program, while 90%+ of the products are sold on both sides of the border.

[@Chepecafeteria]

I hate those things that divide in servings when you can eat the whole thing!!!

[@chrisb.7787]

Like your not going to eat a whole block of ramen.

[@garyholt8315]

look at the serving size for bicks sauerkraut. yep 2 tbsp and 230 gr of sodium. outrageously small serving. ugh!

[@longbeach225]

My advice to people is buy whole ingredients. When I shop I buy base ingredients like flour, organic cornstarch, yeast, fresh veggies and fruits,. With all these ingredients you can make fresh dough which can be used for bread, French rolls, pizza and so on. Flour can be used to make fresh pancakes and I use Stevia to sweeten my foods so no sugar in my diet but only from fruits. I have kitchen equipment like the Bosch mixer to help make 5 pounds of dough which I use to make fresh bread and my bread has whole grains because I put them there. The more people go fresh cooking the healthier you become.

[@wilhelmtaylor9863]

With all those ingredients you'll gave type 2 diabetes before you know it.

[@megashani91]

the bread wasnt a lousy label. they said it was white with fibre. thats exactly what it is.

[@mayplaysgames7978]

Making dumb people think it's healthy cause it has fiber

[@AJ287772]

I wish CBC would reply to comments

[@ernestorodriguez5626]

Cisilyitaly

[@gtmaniacmda]

Nice b8 m8 I r8 8/8 ^nice meme nerd!.. wait.

[@alexli1500]

+XxGranTurismoMan98xX don't you mean w8???

[@gtmaniacmda]

Alex Li I guess so

[@DankBlank]

I had a wonder bread store near me when I was little any my mom would always buy bread from there. Slowly the store shut down and now they're gone

[@Carmen-nj8ty]

Laughing can boost your immune system

[@kanora582]

I would love to see an episode on "how long it takes the average consumer to 'find' the ingredients list"

[@majidabdi9743]

Why you can put sugar content of 7-day consumption of a product in one plate (Kellog), but Campell was criticized for not declaring the sodium in one full serve. You are using similar tactics to divert or attract attention. That journalism and making something out of nothing happened in other programs as well (e.g., the orange juice one). The Bread's label was perfectly fine as well: it pronounced that it is white bread.

[@Its_Syxx]

Yup this whole thing was loaded with massive reaching, misrepresentation and hypocrisy.

[@hamids4550]

CBC news please continue on. You are amazing. I wish there were more like you to inform people.

[@famousstar796]

These informative videos are amazing. They are interesting enough to keep me entertained and I enjoy the interviewing process that the anchors use. It's not too much information it's just right, plus I love how fashionable they are!

[@jaimicottrill2831]

Doesn’t anyone read ingredient labels? They give a clearer picture on what you’re buying. However, fresh fruits and veggies and meat are always best!

[@savedbygrace1582]

Eat healthy: no sugar, don't drink calories, don't eat processed foods (if it has ingredients, it's processed), no white flour.

[@mlsaulnier]

The show did the exact thing with the bag of sugar from the nutra-grain bars (showing seven days of sugar, not one) as mislabeling of the sizes. She should have used a bag with one serving of the sugar to be fair.

[@bozumoyo3277]

I love the CBC Marketplace series, you guys actually make an impact and it's great!!

[@lizli8159]

The kraft dinner is not only a higher price for junk but it even has less in it

[@infinitecanadian]

There are these delicious Campbells Everyday Gourmet boxed soups. But when I looked at the label on some of them, I noticed that they had shoveled 18 grams of sugar into each serving.

[@Blackmark52]

This show itself is often as misleading as the packages that it criticizes. Notice how they show a daily serving of the item and then when they want to impress you with how much sugar (or whatever) it represents, they show how much you get in a week. It's the same hype the marketers are giving us in reverse.

[@Labtop215]

Blackmark52 When I look at buying food, I often aim to get a weeks supply or more of something or more since I can usually get a discount when I buy a bigger volume of food then when I buy just single servings. Often times, it is reasonable to have one of something, once a day, for a week or more (a personal example for me would be a cup of coffee with 2 sugar cubes in it.). With that in mind, seeing how much sugar you are taking in a week from an item of food doesn't seem all that deceptive to me if the product is something I could see myself reasonably consuming every day. It demonstrates that your body isn't getting a break from junk food.

[@Blackmark52]

You completely miss the point. If marketplace is going to criticize companies for giving factually correct, but misleading information. then they owe it to honest reporting to show strictly one to one comparisons. When they stoop to sensationalizing the issue, they are indulging in misleading marketing themselves.

[@Labtop215]

Blackmark52 No, I get your point. I just don't agree.

[@amyvilcu19]

It's been a while since I watched the video so I don't recall that part. Nonetheless, that's not true... It is true that fully intact flax seeds won't be digested if swallowed as such but if you get ground flax (or if you're particularly ambitious you can chew it yourself), you will get the nutrition from it.

[@cindy846]

@@Labtop215 When they show how much sugar it represents in one week, they should also show the number of bars that would need to be eaten to get that amount. Blackmark52 is not against the fact that they show the amount of sugar for one whole week, but against the fact that they show ONE bar right before (instead of 7) only to make it look even more dramatic.

[@danielwaughn5835]

You see an asterisk after anything, don't buy it.

[@Pikachu-ho8rp]

I dont get the reason why. Why?

[@ttyngordon]

+AG30 Squad because it comes with small print. usually sayi g that what they're telling you has not been evaluated by anyone so it probably does not work.

[@jonmikol3416]

I love what you guys do, you are great investigators.

[@McLKeith]

Thanks for the reminder. It is too easy to believe labels.

[@Tactrus]

This is a really great show. It's surprising it doesn't get more views. Very well done

[@ARUchannel1]

I love these types of shows where consumers are told to pay more attention to certain products

[@rani.andretti]

Here in Europe Actimel doesn't have such claims in the packaging, but the ads don't hold back in telling us we can avoid the cold with it.

[@ilovesparky13]

Huh. I didn't know that Dannon was called "Danone" in Canada and Europe.

[@lordihlendam3619]

Yeah, they had to drop the silent e for us 'muricans

[@FeuerblutRM]

@@lordihlendam3619 Danone is Catalan, I'm not sure it's a silent e.

[@Ir1w]

In America I’ve never seen a label on any food item saying that it makes you smart.

[@adde9506]

Not saying that granola bars are healthy, but it's interesting how they act like there's no sugar in fruit. Just looked it up: a serving of fresh mango has 18 grams of sugar. How much was in those bars again?

[@windyhawthorn7387]

I read the ingredients of a product not the advertising. It helps me understand the flavor an nutrition of a product. For example I like 3 to 4 ingredient corn tortillas chips and I chose based on the oil it's fried with.

[@april_]

I recently found plantain chips cooked with coconut oil. Ingredients are plantain, coconut oil, and salt. They taste amazing

[@BloodyCanadian]

It's hard for people read their own labels and be responsible for what they put in their bodies! Sue everyone!

[@aimeelouvier-sutton]

I read labels cuz my son is allergic to things I can't have in my house. But it seems the healthiest things come right out of the ground and directly off the farm

[@anona]

That denactive was 4 years expired the time this was posted. It bugs me

[@sydd183]

All I think of is Nutella XD

[@danielhughes5614]

Perhaps Schools should teach a series of courses in 'How to understand what you are looking at and being told'. They should be compulsory but I imagine the 'powers that be' would oppose such a revolutionary approach. Who wants an informed and discerning population?

[@jackburton4224]

"consumers are screwed" in a nutshell, telling it like it is

[@Mintyoreos]

I get my omega 3's from plants. So do a lot of other people with GI problems. I am pretty find and dandy I'd say.

[@arena_sniper7869]

No you aren't you can't even spell.

[@Michelle-pn9xt]

Do you mean fine and dandy?

[@jordansmith3721]

Mintyoreos He is misinformed Flaxbased Omega 3s are one of the best for DHA. EPA Flaxbased isn't the best but still shows benefits than placebo

[@Shloopy420]

People with GI problems do well with cod liver oil. IDK what you're smoking.

[@jeanbaptist6255]

I never had fish and my Omega's is spot on. I eat flax once every two weeks or so

[@dominicoconner1973]

feeding your kids pizza pockets is just a parent being lazy.

[@graffitojml3467]

I loved watching this kind of things, but I would like to tell me what kind of products I could eat that are good for me

[@electricorca]

just eat real food, not products

[@daydreamerallieas3950]

I buy fresh veggies, meat and fish from the meat section and seafood. I pretty much buy whole and "real foods"

[@acbc3543]

Common sense is the right choice

[@usamamorgan2117]

Respect-from Africa.

[@ricardosp7975]

The main takeaway from this video is that in Canada the best mobile phone reception is in the car park.

[@dihydrotestosterone]

Good one 👍

[@SarabjeetSanghera]

I have one general rule in life: Do no eat anything from bottles or cans or packages other than water.

[@SainterX]

Heres the issue, all of these companies are out to make money. There is NO incentive for them to behave otherwise. You cannot blame a company for wanting to earn lots of money and have lots of people buy their products. The issues come with poor lawmaking. If you want something to chance you have to vote and elect the people who are going to do something about it.

[@lipschutz]

15:32 ah! the Canadian BlackBerry... I really missed that phone.

[@YaelEylatTanaka]

Both reporters are WRONG when they analyze the ingredients in the Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Superfruit bars. They both claim that they (the bars) contain "just over 3 teaspoons of sugar per bar," and the nutrition expert pours a whole week's worth of sugar onto the plate of a parent. In fact, each bar contains 12g-13g of sugar PER BAR (yes, it's redundant). The label with ingredients information can be found at smartlabel.kelloggs.com/Product/Index/00038000359217, and shows specifically "Includes 12g added sugars" per serving! They are trying to debunk health claims found on labels, but seem to minimize the amount of sugar (12g) by reporting it as "3 teaspoons of sugar"! Each bar contains over HALF the recommended amount of added sugars for men and women per day (6 teaspoons for women, 9 teaspoons for men, with no info on how many for children) - that's EACH BAR. With so much added sugars and refined flour added to EACH BAR, can you imagine how much sugar a person consumes in a day? If these reporters want to clarify misleading information on labels, they should also clarify what 12g of added sugars represents!

[@gandako627]

American watching Canadian TV 😂 Lov this show!

[@Iloveyoursmile]

Preventia reminds me product in Czech republic called Opavia Good morning. I was eating it every morning for about a year till I gained weight of sugar intake.

[@VALENTINA2026]

If your buying a product for the first time don't you read the nutrition and ingredient label!? I'm a busy mother of two and I manage to find time to read label especially if it's a product I never bought before. I agree companies shouldn't be allowed to be deceptive like this but I also think it's people being naive and lazy about what they throw in the cart. Haven't we learned u can't trust companies to have your best interest at heart!? They are there to make money. I too used to be believe certain brands were okay too but I believe if you're going to put it in your body you need to make the time to do a little research.

[@thepastcomesalive2082]

That Wonder Bread that’s called wonder plus, you guys should change the label and call it wonder minus.🤣

[@anarky4321]

05:26 I use that same exact Blackberry, nice to see someone has good taste

[@jvg9401]

This is so frightening. What do we eat now? 🤔

[@kan-zee]

2:10 Grab up a few of them..LOL 😜 👍 😁 🙃 Gotta love the *PLACEBO FOOD* !!

[@Irene-gq4jr]

When people say they are too busy to cook I wonder what their priorities are. There's nothing more important than what you fuel your body and brain with. Cooking from scratch with raw ingredients is cheaper, doesn't take as long as folks think and can be done as a bigger batch, frozen then defrosted/reheated as needed. It just takes a bit of planning and effort.

[@donnatrudeau889]

It's hard to get a straight answer from any source, but i gave up grains years ago, and all the benefits you get from grain, you get more completely from other sources, nuts , seed, vegetables.

[@TheMouseAvenger]

Ahhh, I'm not worried about processed foods, high fructose corn syrup, & all that jazz! Eat, drink, & be merry! (downs a glass of Pepsi, whilst eating Lays Stax, Skittles, & other goodies) All I'm saying is, life's too short to fuss over those things! Besides, food choices alone do not determine health, weight, etc...It's also exercise, lifestyle choices, & all that sort of thing!

[@laraoneal7284]

Please do a vid on UNCURED MEATS 🆚 ANY OTHER . Is there any difference at all.?

[@user-go2xd3px8v]

The most interesting in this video is the fact people believe that a soup from a can can be healthy, if you want to eat healthy get the groceries and cook