Label Scams: 4 Summer Products to Avoid

Summer vacations are a chance to pamper yourself. Barbecues, all-you-can-eat aperitifs, fruit salads, ice creams… how can you resist these products that rhyme with sun and evenings with friends? The problem is that the bill quickly increases at the supermarket checkout.

And it’s even more frustrating when these products are not of “quality” as they make you believe. LONG Foodwatch stained “seven summer products whose dishonest marketing is deceiving consumers.”. We share four that we find particularly significant.

Label Scams: a more than dubious composition

A basil gazpacho… almost without basil

Gazpacho is the summer menu par excellence. It is originally composed of raw tomatoes, mixed vegetables and olive oil. A refreshing and totally healthy pleasure. See our express recipe for homemade gazpacho, for lazy evenings.

At the house of Little flower“Gazpacho Basilic” is made with tomatoes, cucumbers… and basil. “But if we look in detail, the product contains only 0.2%. » stained Food

catch. It sucks.

A guacamole rich in… water

The first ingredient of this Old El Paso Guacamole, it’s water, they tell us food watchers. Then there’s only 13.6% avocado, then a long list of ingredients, as shown on the label, including 10.6% tomato. Yet when we look at other brands in the fresh section, we notice that many contain a much higher percentage of avocado puree. So, on and on.

What if we tried the recipe for homemade guacamole?

Carrefour: a lean mayonnaise… but sweeter

Mayonnaise, this false friend of summer, and also low in fat, this product is not really good for your health. There Carrefour Low Fat Mayonnaise contains a layer. It certainly contains less fat, but above all much more sugar! Result: lean mayonnaise maintains its “D” nutriscore, like classic mayonnaise.

Palm oil breadsticks

“At Panelalba we work with love and respect for tradition”, we read in Italian on the packaging adorned with an Italian flag of the “Stiratini”, he tells us Foodwatch? When we look at the packaging, we have the impression of being in front of a handmade product. Indeed! In the composition of these olive stiratini breadsticks there are… Palm oil. Olive oil scores a paltry 3.6%. Forget this aperitif or turn to those of the same brand with olive oil, which contain them.

Find the complete list of summer products with deceptive marketing pinned by Food clock