I admit I eat Nutella straight out of the jar.
Nutella admitted that the creamy chocolate hazelnut spread may not be the healthy breakfast condiment that they touted in their advertising. This admission accompanied the settlement of a $3 million class action lawsuit over Nutella’s ‘healthy’ claims.
Essentially, by letting my kid eat Nutella any time he wants I have failed to protect him from foods that aren’t as healthy as they may seem. In addition, I am now skeptical about the health claims of milk, butter, eggs, beef and all those leafy green vegetables. This has caused me great angst and injury at the hands of Nutella. I think it is time for a lawsuit for mental anguish.
The only problem is that I have never seen a T.V. commercial for Nutella. So their fancy subliminal advertising could not have worked on me. However, there should have been someone at the supermarket when I bought the Nutella to inform me of the nutritional facts of the product.
Oh, that’s right, the nutritional facts are on the label. Of course, Ferrero, the owner of Nutella is a French company and I don’t think I can trust anything those french people write. Upon further inspection, not only is Nutella owned by the French, it is made in Canada, another socialist country, and distributed Ferrero U.S.A. in New Jersey. This is all very confusing.
When I do compare it to peanut butter, cream cheese or straight butter, Nutella seems no worse than the competitive spreads in the fridge. Was the whole class action suit really an American consumer intelligence test? If it was, we failed. But I won’t let that deter me from having million dollar advertising campaigns make my consumer choices for me.
Either way, from this day forward, I am hiding the Nutella from my son to save his health. He will just have to go back eating frosted flakes for breakfast; those have to be healthier, Right?