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Nevilledog

(50,687 posts)
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 09:49 PM Apr 2021

A Wisconsin woman has filed a lawsuit against Kraft Heinz alleging CHEESE FRAUD



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A Wisconsin woman has filed a lawsuit against Kraft Heinz alleging CHEESE FRAUD

Lawsuit alleges cheese fraud in Bagel Bites Pizza Snacks
A lawsuit claims no reasonable Wisconsin consumer would consider what's in Bagel Bites Pizza Snacks to be real mozzarella cheese
jsonline.com
3:09 PM · Apr 26, 2021


https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2021/04/26/wisconsin-woman-questions-bagel-bites-pizza-snacks-mozzarella-claim/7349709002/

Wisconsin is not the place to imply your food contains real mozzarella cheese when it actually may be something less.

An Elroy woman has sued food giant Kraft Heinz, saying the packaging of its Bagel Bites Pizza Snacks amounts to fraud.

Kaitlyn Huber's federal lawsuit, filed over the weekend in Madison, says a box featuring the Real Dairy seal, and the large type announcing mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce, are "false, deceptive and misleading."

The suit, which seeks class-action status on behalf of anyone who bought the bites in Wisconsin, asks the court to make Kraft Heinz correct its packaging and for unspecified damages.

"Wisconsin consumers want real mozzarella cheese in pizza because they value (1) its soft, moist texture, (2) its milky, yet tangy taste and (3) its high protein and relatively low calories and sodium compared to other cheeses," the suit states.

The suggestion that Bagel Bites Pizza Snacks are made with tomato sauce is also bogus, according to Huber's suit.

"Reasonable Wisconsin consumers expect a product claiming to contain 'Tomato Sauce' will contain only tomato ingredients and seasonings instead of thickeners like cornstarch and methylcellulose," it reads.

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a kennedy

(29,467 posts)
3. Then what's that "real cheese" symbol on the top of the package??
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 09:58 PM
Apr 2021
doesn’t say what the kind of cheese it is though.

niyad

(112,435 posts)
4. On the other hand, it has never occurred to me to expect actual real food in such items. If I want
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 10:03 PM
Apr 2021

real cheese, and real tomato sauce, I will make it myself, or go to a local pizzeria I trust. I consider most of those frozen items to be convenience foods, and I don't expect much from them. Well, except for the sodium content, of which there is an abundance!

Celerity

(42,666 posts)
5. those bagel bites look nasty AF
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 10:05 PM
Apr 2021


the chemi-cheese is just an added negative trait


that box has

576 grammes of carbs

6300mg of sodium

3600 calories


hope she wins

TheRealNorth

(9,435 posts)
7. I don't know - it does seem like deceptive marketing to me
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 10:11 PM
Apr 2021

It says mozzarella cheese on the box - if they are using fillers, we should know that.

I do have to question why - with milk and dairy prices so low, why the hell they can't use pure cheese. I guess the fillers are still cheaper.

The dairy industry should also be upset if they are advertising this crap as real cheese. This seems to be a bigger issue then people somehow confusing soy or coconut milks with dairy milk.

Disaffected

(4,508 posts)
8. Should expand the law suit to include
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 10:13 PM
Apr 2021

Kraft Dinner. Whatever that orangey gorp is, it ain't related very closely to cheese.

Bettie

(15,998 posts)
9. Um, you're eating "Bagel Bites Pizza Snacks"
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 10:31 PM
Apr 2021

what do you expect.

And I'm FROM Wisconsin.

Plus, they probably have enough cheese like aspects to legally call it cheese.

betsuni

(25,133 posts)
10. Similar suit filed in New York earlier this year. Huber's lawyer withdrew it to refile in
Mon Apr 26, 2021, 10:32 PM
Apr 2021

Wisconsin because of the importance of the dairy industry there. Same attorney involved in a suit against an Illinois dairy for its ice cream's vanilla flavoring. What a scam.

I should think anyone would be terribly embarrassed to be involved in something like this. Frozen, extremely processed stuff in a box made in a factory is supposed to have anything to do with real food? So American.

Ka-Dinh Oy

(11,686 posts)
12. What the hell do you expect out of Kraft cheese lady?
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 05:31 AM
Apr 2021

Real cheese? Despite what it says on the front of the box if you are intelligent enough and look at the ingredients on the package it tends to say "cheese food" which may or may not have at least a tiny bit of actual cheese in it.

These days what a package of food claimed to be or have can be used only for marketing and have loopholes to claim that it is what it is not.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,119 posts)
13. And if you look at the box JUST RIGHT, there a hint of CHEESE PORN there, too.
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 05:50 AM
Apr 2021

Won't someone think of the children?

rownesheck

(2,343 posts)
15. If anyone expects
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 07:05 AM
Apr 2021

actual food to be in frozen, pre-packaged products, they need a mental evaluation. Frivolous lawsuit in my opinion.

I eat garbage like this all the time. Not once have i been shocked that I wasn't eating actual food.

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