On a pedantic side note here, I believe no-sugar-added products can be very high sugar as long as a sugar isn't directly added. For example, if someone made honey-flavored ice cream, they could call it a no-sugar-added product and still load it with enough honey to make it one of the most sugary of all.
There is also a sneaky kind of accounting that food companies do called "net carbohydrates" that make processed foods seem to contain less sugar than they actually do, by subtracting fiber and sugar alcohols. It's a reprehensible practice.
We juiced a ton of sugar cane, removed the fibre, concentrated the juices, added a bunch of flour and other stuff into it, and now we have cake! No sugar added!
Anyone who is colorblind: there is red text on the left side and black text on the right so this might be more obvious to you than others.
I guess I would add a vertical separator or just do what every sane designer is doing and maintain continuity with horizontal text across the entire line!
In a local shop here, they have a brand which is basically called "Free of". It's supposed to be their brand for gluten-free and lactose-free and such. But yeah, because of the text placement on the packaging, it always reads as "Free of bread", "Free of noodles" etc..
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vateso5074@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 272d
oleorun@lemmy.fan · 27 pts · 272d
Fuckin hate apple in my sugar cake.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 272d
On a pedantic side note here, I believe no-sugar-added products can be very high sugar as long as a sugar isn't directly added. For example, if someone made honey-flavored ice cream, they could call it a no-sugar-added product and still load it with enough honey to make it one of the most sugary of all.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 272d
Edit: I was wrong about honey. It's included with a list of sugars, even though it's natural.
The same is not true for fruit concentrate, however and it can be used to add sweetness to "no sugar added" products.
xep@discuss.online · 5 pts · 272d
There is also a sneaky kind of accounting that food companies do called "net carbohydrates" that make processed foods seem to contain less sugar than they actually do, by subtracting fiber and sugar alcohols. It's a reprehensible practice.
howrar@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 272d
We juiced a ton of sugar cane, removed the fibre, concentrated the juices, added a bunch of flour and other stuff into it, and now we have cake! No sugar added!
errer@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 272d
Corporations getting consequences? Clearly not in the USA
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 272d
Or if you found apple in your sugar cake.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 272d
Apple ink?
oleorun@lemmy.fan · 12 pts · 272d
Anyone who is colorblind: there is red text on the left side and black text on the right so this might be more obvious to you than others.
I guess I would add a vertical separator or just do what every sane designer is doing and maintain continuity with horizontal text across the entire line!
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 6 pts · 272d
Or change the font styles. I guess they did, sort of, but it's not very obvious. Like one in script, and one in Papyrus.
huppakee@piefed.social · 6 pts · 272d
How / them
about / on
not / different
putting / lines?
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 249d
Wouldn't the red still look lighter than black? Idk I'm just assuming here, I could be wrong
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 272d
In a local shop here, they have a brand which is basically called "Free of". It's supposed to be their brand for gluten-free and lactose-free and such. But yeah, because of the text placement on the packaging, it always reads as "Free of bread", "Free of noodles" etc..
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 272d
You should take some photos and post them here.
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 272d
It's unfortunately in German. đź«
But well, it looks like this: ::: spoiler Spoiler
:::
The "frei von" translates as "free of".
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 272d
Finally, some truth on the packaging!!
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 272d
Weirdly it makes sense either way you read it.
romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 272d
Diablo
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 272d
9/10 doctors love no added apple sugar cake
underscore_@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 269d
I thought for a moment this was an “I didn’t have eggs” reference
RegularJoe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 272d
mika_mika@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 272d
Unless you are colorblind, I don't think this is a good example. Reads just fine.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 272d
I didn't know I was colorblind, because it got me the first time