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A California woman is suing the makers of Jelly Belly jelly beans, claiming she was tricked into believing one of the company's candy products was free of sugar.

The plaintiff, Jessica Gomez of San Bernadino County, first brought the case against the candy company earlier this year, blaming "fancy phrasing" for her confusion over the ingredients, according to Legal News Line.

Gomez purchased Jelly Belly’s Sport Beans, a product marketed as an exercise supplement containing carbohydrates, electrolytes and vitamins, which lists "evaporated cane juice" on the label instead of citing sugar as an ingredient.

In the class action suit, Gomez claims the wording on the label is in violation of state's Consumer Legal Remedies Act, Unfair Business Practices Law and False Advertising Law and is designed to intentionally deceive the health-conscious consumers being targeted by Sport Beans, Forbes reports.

Jelly Belly called the case "nonsense," as stated in an April motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing, “No reasonable consumer could have been deceived by Sport Beans’ labeling – Gomez could not have seen ‘evaporated cane juice’ without also seeing the product’s sugar content on its Nutrition Facts panel."

But Gomez seems to have the Food and Drug administration on her side.

In May 2016, the FDA announced that the term "juice" should not be used unless referring to that of a fruit or vegetable, and that calling sugar "evaporated cane juice" is infact misleading to consumers.

The guidelines, though not law, state that "The FDA encourages firms that market sugar cane-derived sweeteners or products that contain a sugar cane-derived sweetener to review the final guidance and consider whether their labeling terminology accurately describes the basic nature and characterizing properties of the sweetener used."

But Jelly Belly, which is headquartered in Fairfield, Calif., is still arguing that the case should be thrown out for a number of reasons, primarily because "Plaintiff does not explain why an athlete—or anyone—would be surprised to find sugar in a product described as 'Jelly Beans'."

http://www.foxnews.com/food-dr...s-contain-sugar.html

She should be sugar caned.

Jelly Belly- it's got electrolytes

To help her, I'll send her a case of sugar free gummi bears for free.

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Originally posted by Suppressed:
To help her, I'll send her a case of sugar free gummi bears for free.

I saw what you did there!

flashguy

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Originally posted by Suppressed:
To help her, I'll send her a case of sugar free gummi bears for free.

Haribo?

Using logic, I would think jelly beans contain jelly.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Using logic, I would think jelly beans contain jelly.

And beans.

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Originally posted by MG34_Dan:
And beans.

Thus, their recent reclassification as a health food.

Just tell the occifer you didn't know you were drinking alcohol; the label says "processed grape juice".

I suspect the jelly bean label was intentionally vague.

That definition is misleading, but, anybody with two neurons to rub together would take one look at it, and go "Haha! Nice try." Then there's the nutritional label.

Jelly Belly does also make sugar free jelly beans and gummy bears.....the gummy bears are known to give everyone the major runs......google it.

I am going to sue the Prune pimps because it is just dried plums.

It's a well known fact that all the calories are in the last one. So make someone else eat it and you are GTG.

What a dunce. Everyone knows about sugar offsets. Jelly bellys and a diet coke cancel out

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
That definition is misleading...

Yep.

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... but, anybody with two neurons to rub together would take one look at it, and go "Haha! Nice try." Then there's the nutritional label.

My thoughts exactly. "Healthy jelly beans sweetened with evaporated cane juice" is right up there with the prominently labeled "gluten free beef" or "cholesterol free broccoli" you see in the grocery store aisles.

Anyone with an ounce of sense can see that those are just nonsense marketing tricks. But there are certainly folks stupid enough to fall for it.

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
Jelly Belly does also make sugar free jelly beans and gummy bears.....the gummy bears are known to give everyone the major runs......google it.

Those diarrhea gummy bears are made by Haribo, not Jelly Belly.

So, what does she hope to get out of all this? Lifetime supply of sugared up Jelly Beans? Maybe with all of the green ones removed? How much damage could she have sustained, to be involved in a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT?

Loser pays. It is all I have to say, sweetie.

if sugar cane isn't a fruit or vegetable, what is it?

Sugar cane is a grass, so neither.



Did the jelly beans taste good? If yes, they had sugar in them.

I first saw "evaporated cane juice" on yogurt. I thought it was ridiculous but I knew it was sugar.

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Originally posted by FenderBender:
if sugar cane isn't a fruit or vegetable, what is it?

"Alright, alright, Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy?"