{"id":31439,"date":"2010-09-28T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T14:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=31439"},"modified":"2010-09-28T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T14:51:39","slug":"ben-jerrys-to-drop-all-natural-from-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/ben-jerrys-to-drop-all-natural-from-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben &#038; Jerry&#8217;s to Drop All Natural From Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Ben &amp; Jerry's to Drop All Natural from Labels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/ben-jerrys-to-drop-all-natural-from-labels\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31452\" title=\"Ben &amp; Jerry's\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Ben-Jerrys.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>The Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest has requested that the Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s Ice Cream Company drop the words &#8220;all-natural&#8221; from their <a title=\"Decoding Food Labels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/decoding-food-labels\/\" target=\"_self\">labels<\/a>. Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s agreed to the label change on Monday, declaring that they would no longer battle over the definition of &#8220;<a title=\"Decoding Nutrition Facts Labels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/decoding-nutrition-facts-labels\/\">all natural<\/a>&#8220;. Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s spokesman Sean Greenwood said that the change would happen gradually and hopes that it will help consumers make a more informed decision.<\/p>\n<p>Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s is not changing the recipes that make their best selling ice cream, which sometimes contain <a title=\"Corn Syrup\" href=\"\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/hfcs-changing-the-name-doesnt-change-the-product\/\" target=\"_self\">corn syrup<\/a>, hydrogenated oils or other substances that are not natural. The CPSI has stated that the company should not use the term &#8220;all natural&#8221; unless it is truly all natural, with only naturally occurring ingredients. Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s has agreed, and will no longer label their ice cream as such.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is no formal definition of the term &#8220;natural&#8221;, according to the Food &amp; Drug Administration. The FDA will not investigate any use of the term natural, unless it contains artificial colors, flavors or man-made substances.<\/p>\n<p>The CPSI has requested that the FDA define the term, adding &#8220;The Food and Drug Administration could do consumers and food  manufacturers a great service by actually defining when the word  &#8216;natural&#8217; can and cannot be used to characterize a given ingredient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>via <a title=\"Yahoo News\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Yahoo! News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have an ice cream craving? Make your own!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Pecan Ice Cream\" href=\"\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/pecan-ice-cream\/\" target=\"_self\">Pecan Ice Cream<\/a><a title=\"Strawberry Ice Cream\" href=\"\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/strawberry-ice-cream\/      *\" target=\"_self\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Strawberry Ice Cream\" href=\"\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/strawberry-ice-cream\/      *\" target=\"_self\">Strawberry Ice Cream<\/a><a title=\"How to Make Homemade Ice Cream\" href=\"\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/how-to-make-homemade-ice-cream\/\" target=\"_self\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"How to Make Homemade Ice Cream\" href=\"\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/how-to-make-homemade-ice-cream\/\" target=\"_self\">How to Make Homemade Ice Cream<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest has requested that the Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s Ice Cream Company drop the words &#8220;all-natural&#8221; from their labels. Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s agreed to the label change on Monday, declaring that they would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/ben-jerrys-to-drop-all-natural-from-labels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[4546,97,1554,2640,1094,29],"class_list":["post-31439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-ben-jerrys","tag-food-labels","tag-ice-cream","tag-legal","tag-marketing","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31439"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31458,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31439\/revisions\/31458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}