Bananas are low fat!

January 7, 2008

Thanks to Kerry Trueman for sharp eyed reading of the latest in banana advertising (do bananas need this?). Check the sticker she found on a Chiquita banana. Aren’t you happy to know this? Haven’t you been buying enough bananas lately? Here it is:

Here it is:


10 Comments

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  2. What these marketing geniuses don’t realize is that some of us savvy consumers now think of Fat Free foods = TASTELESS.

    What next, A sticker on an apple saying, “ZERO grams of High Fructose Corn Syrup?”

    Comment by Jack at Fork & Bottle — January 7, 2008 @ 1:33 pm

  3. Great idea! Sell it! Actually, products are already advertised as HFCS-free (they contain organic natural cane juice–sucrose–instead).

    Comment by Marion — January 7, 2008 @ 1:41 pm

  4. Oh thank god — I can keep eating bananas now…….

    Comment by Erin — January 7, 2008 @ 10:29 pm

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  6. You are too extremist! What is the problem with marketing true benefits? Sometimes critics are worse than the Food Industry

    Comment by Dr Salomon Jakubowicz — January 8, 2008 @ 9:31 am

  7. In a world where highly processed foods have bigger marketing budgets, it strikes me as poor sportsmanship to take fresh fruit to task. Consumers are bombarded with marketing messages and marketers of fresh fruit, which certainly has a positive story to tell, should be able to compete on a level playing field.

    Comment by Janine — January 15, 2008 @ 10:23 am

  8. Gee, I thought someone who is a Brian Wansink fan would love this - use the power of mindless eating to get someone to eat fruit instead of junk.

    Comment by Migraineur — January 15, 2008 @ 1:14 pm

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  10. Its simple amazing that people want always want to know every single nutritional fact of foods. Even fresh foods which as we all know is neigh to impossible to quantify. The trick is simply to eat the right combination of good healthy foods and your health will be just fine.

    Comment by Bad Credit — August 18, 2008 @ 5:00 pm

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