Ben and Jerry's Peach Cobbler Ice Cream. |
I hate that this had to happen but, for everyone who is a huge Ben and Jerry's fan like me, it has been reported that the ice cream sensation will be removing the phrase "all natural" from its product after a complaint from the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
The CSPI told the company that B&J should not use the term "all natural" since its products contain alkalized cocoa, corn syrup, hydrogenated oil or other ingredients that happen to be not natural at all.
B&J said they will not alter their recipes but did agree to the change, even though the FDA currently has no formal definition for the word "natural".
Now come on B&J I am a great big fan of the "Peach Cobbler Ice Cream" but you knew that your ingredients were not "all natural."
"The Food and Drug Administration could do consumers and food manufacturers a great service by actually defining when the word 'natural' can and cannot be used to characterize a given ingredient," said CSPI Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson.
Spokesman for B&J Sean Greenwood expects the label change to occur gradually over the next several months. The ingredients will be the same ones B&J has always used, but the company no longer wants to battle over the definition of "all natural," which has different meanings to different people, Greenwood said.
The CSPI told the company that B&J should not use the term "all natural" since its products contain alkalized cocoa, corn syrup, hydrogenated oil or other ingredients that happen to be not natural at all.
B&J said they will not alter their recipes but did agree to the change, even though the FDA currently has no formal definition for the word "natural".
Now come on B&J I am a great big fan of the "Peach Cobbler Ice Cream" but you knew that your ingredients were not "all natural."
"The Food and Drug Administration could do consumers and food manufacturers a great service by actually defining when the word 'natural' can and cannot be used to characterize a given ingredient," said CSPI Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson.
Spokesman for B&J Sean Greenwood expects the label change to occur gradually over the next several months. The ingredients will be the same ones B&J has always used, but the company no longer wants to battle over the definition of "all natural," which has different meanings to different people, Greenwood said.
