NitroPress, you left the winky off of my quote. 
Here’s a link for the requirements: CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21
It appears that peanut butter can contain up to 10% of regulated other ingredients. I have not found the FDA standards for items labeled as hazelnut butter, almond butter or cashew butter, but a WAG would say that they are similar to those of peanut butter.
While Nutella doesn’t advertise itself as hazelnut butter, it certainly hints (and strongly) that it is similar in nutritional content.
Not really. I always thought their commercials were similar to Bryars’ “Only milk, cream, sugar and vanilla.” It’s all natural, not super healthy. I’ve seen nothing comparing Nutella to peanut butter.
We’re sorry to hear about your winky. Have you tried unplugging it, and plugging it back in? We’ll wait while you try.
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Nutella is NOT shit, it is goddamn delicious. And it’s been around forever; I’ve been eating it at least 20 years, and I live in Bumfuck, so I know the big cities have had it. If you haven’t noticed it, you aren’t paying attention.
I don’t know a single person who thinks its even remotely healthy. Even when I was little it was a special snack for sometimes, and we got a tiny bit spread on toast. A jar would last over a year. It’s candy. So is Reeses Puffs cereal (for example). But occasionally indulging in candy is alright. I keep a jar on the top shelf of my pantry, and if my kids are good or I’m feeling extra nice, they get a little. My kids are crazy healthy, for the record.
Nutella is wonderful, and in moderate amounts won’t hurt anyone.
The label identifies it as “Hazelnut spread with skim milk and cocoa.”
I’m quite sure that “spread” is one of those undefined FDA non-words that allows the product to contain anything, but “Hazelnut spread” certainly implies that it’s something other than 18 percent (minus) ground hazelnut and 80 percent (plus) added fat and sugar. And LOOK! It has MILK in it! And COCOA, which we all know is better than that nasty chocolate.
Especially when peanut butter, as you point out, has to be 90% ground peanuts to call itself that. No, there’s no deception here. Move along.
I see nothing on this page comparing it to candy or dessert. This page boasts that it contains roasted hazelnuts, skim milk and just a hint of cocoa…but not a word about the two primary ingredients that proceed them(sugar and oil.) I also notice that most of the pictures of Nutella has it sharing the picture with fresh fruits and fruit juice.
Nope-no implying nutritional value here.
On my jar, it has a large tag disclosing the amount of sugar, calories and saturated fat that is larger than the footnote about hazelnuts.
Again, next to the picture of fruit and milk, it plainly says “Turn a balanced breakfast into a tasty one. Spread Nutella on multigrain bread…”
In other words, “We make healthy stuff taste good.”
Advertising deceptive? Get the hell out of here!
I guess if you use the Cheerios commercial set and keep the kids off skateboards everyone falls for it.
It’s called “hazelnut spread” on the Nutella site:
I think it’s fair to say that presenting it as a breakfast food (accompanied in the photo by a slice of wholewheat toast, a glass of milk, a glass of OJ, a pear, an orange and a strawberry) while never mentioning the presence of sugar or palm oil, much less the fact that they’re the primary ingredients, counts as somewhat deliberately misleading.
What I think is most interesting, though, is the fact that you can find real chocolate hazelnut butter, containing nothing but hazelnuts, sweetened chocolate, and sea salt, in that order (and with organic ingredients to boot), for $13.30 per 1-pound jar, or about 83 cents per ounce.
Meanwhile, “hazelnut spread” SugarOilSludgella markets for about 28 to 36 cents per ounce, or more than one-third the price of the real chocolate-hazelnut butter.
When you consider that, as Nitro-Press noted, actual hazelnuts make up at most about one-sixth of the content of SugarOilSludgella, you gotta admit they’ve got some major marketing chutzpah to charge for it what they do. They’re selling canned-cake-frosting nutrition at low-end-nut-butter prices.
I’m with you on this one. I’ve never seen an ad for it, but I’ve always assumed it was on the same nutritional level as marshmallow fluff or Hershey’s syrup. I like the stuff, it’s fine, great for dessert crepes but, come on. It’s Nutella. Anyone who’s had one spoon of it couldn’t possibly think it’s healthy, could they? And, yeah, as mentioned before…granola bars? Orange juice? The typical brands are also not exactly the best examples of “healthy” food, either. Granola bars, for the most part, are just adult candy.
Exactly. If the typical American was as deceived as folks in this thread would have us believe, Nutella would be outselling peanut butter 10:1. It’s not, because anyone with 2 taste buds and 4 brain cells knows that the stuff is loaded with sugar.
I think the last sentence from your first page (“Nutella and Family”) says it all: “So why not use Nutella® hazelnut spread to turn a balanced breakfast into a tasty one!”
I find it interesting that half the people in the thread who are flabbergasted that anyone would be surprised that Nutella isn’t healthy are also those who haven’t seen ads for it. Isn’t that kind of the point? Those of us who *have *seen the ads either thought of it as healthy, or think they want us to think of it as healthy. Those of you are aren’t seeing the ads aren’t deceived. Duh.
Not only have I seen the ads, but I commented on it already in this thread.
Nice selective quoting, though.
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He didn’t quote you, and he said half the people, not all the people. I’m not sure why you felt the need to be snarky about that.
She also spoke for “those of us who have seen the ads”.
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