• toynbee@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Supposedly this is why tic tacs, which are almost 100% sugar, can claim to be sugar free.

    • Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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      1 day ago

      They don’t claim to be sugar-free, at least not the ones made of sugar. Instead, they claim to have 0g of sugar per serving. That is a critical difference.

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        1 day ago

        If a tictac has >200 pieces in a pack, and you claim serving size is 1, then whatever it is made of has >0,5% per serving. It could be made of radioactive waste and they could put ‘a tictac cointains no radioactive waste’ on the pack. The game is rigged.

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          For “calories per serving”, absolutely, but nowhere on the packaging does it say Sugar Free because that’s a completely different claim that would be completely false.

          • huppakee@lemmy.world
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            1 day ago

            If you claim a tictac is one serving you can say a tictac contains no sugar. But you’re right, it would be in a format like this image.

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              You can claim it contains 0g of sugar, you cannot claim it contains no sugar. A subtle, but critical difference