"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
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> In article . com>,
> "aem" > wrote:
>
>> Kraft Foods markets a product called "Kraft Dips Guacamole." A lawsuit
>> has been filed seeking to enjoin them from using the word "guacamole"
>> because the product contains less than 2% avocado.
>>
>> Instead it is made from modified food starch, coconut and soybean oils,
>> corn syrup and green food coloring (or whatever combination makes
>> green). Turns out that there are no regulatory standards for
>> guacamole, unlike, say, peanut butter, which has to be 95% peanuts.
>> Kraft says. ""We think customers understand that it isn't made from
>> avocado." They don't say why they have such a high opinion of their
>> customers. Nevertheless, they say they will relabel the product.
>>
>> On the one hand it's not deceptive because the ingredients label is as
>> accurate as the law requires. On the other, many of us think that if
>> it says "guacamole" it oughta be mostly avocado. -aem
>>
>> More of the story he http://www.sacbee.com/114/story/85337.html
>
> Wow! I'm thinking that guacamole, by definition, is avocado, far and
> away.
> This reminds me of a godawful guacamole that the Gedney folks were
> making for a while a few years ago. I believe that *avocado powder* was
> something like #12 on the list of ingredients. Honest to Alex, it was
> that far down!!
>
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ

Below are the ingredients for the Kraft product. Anyone who thought they
were getting guacamole is an idiot. And, unless the package has been changed
since the lawsuit, I do not think the label suggests anything other than a
flavored dip, not actual guacamole.

Ingredients: WATER, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COCONUT AND SOYBEAN OIL, CORN
SYRUP, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE (FROM MILK), FOOD STARCH MODIFIED, CONTAINS
LESS THAN 2% OF POTATOES, SALT, AVOCADO, DEFATTED SOY FLOUR, MONOSODIUM
GLUTAMATE, TOMATOES, SODIUM CASEINATE, VINEGAR, LACTIC ACID, ONIONS,
PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, GELATIN, XANTHAN GUM, CAROB BEAN GUM,
MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SPICE, WITH SODIUM BENZOATE AND POTASSIUM SORBATE AS
PRESERVATIVES, GARLIC, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID, YELLOW 6, YELLOW 5,
ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BLUE 1, ARTIFICIAL COLOR.

Picture of product:
http://kraftfoods.com/main.aspx?s=pr...uct=2100061389

Other dips:
http://kraftfoods.com/dipsracingcards/

Does anyone expect to find real onion chunks in French onion dip?