The Federal Consumer Attorney (Profeco) will remove these cookie brands from the market after reviewing them through a study. Because? Three of them contain large amounts of sugar and fat, which can harm the health of Mexicans.
According to the head of the department, Ricardo Sheffield, advanced in a video which cookies were studied, among them the vanilla ones, known as Marías, the salty ones and the animal ones. The information will come complete in the edition of the Consumer Magazine February.
- Milena Cracker: they have 35% more fat than they declare.
- Great Value for snacking: more than 68% fat than indicated on the label.
“They are serious flaws and deception to the consumer. We are going to see that these two products are withdrawn from the market or compose their formulation”, says the attorney.
However, those two are not the only marks that he exhibited in the clip. salty crackers brand Precissimo and Cuétara: contain excess sugar.
In addition, they do not have the polygon of “Excess in sugars”, emphasizes the Attorney.
“But these aside, the Cuétara salty biscuits, ‘went too far’; They say they are the crunchy salty… Well, let’s see how they test it for us in a laboratory, how is it that this cookie is crunchy than others… The truth is an advertising hoax”.
Ricardo Sheffield, Profeco
The senior official asks consumers to inform themselves to avoid falling into misleading advertising.
On the other hand, in the same Profeco study, they found several irregularities. Here some of them:
- Less content than they claim to have
- Contains high fructose corn syrup
- contain palm oil
- More fat and sugar than they declare
- The energy content they claim to have is not true
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