If you bought any of these General Mills Fruit-flavored Snacks based on claims that they contain “No Artificial Flavors,” you may have been a victim of false advertising:
- Scooby-Doo Fruit Flavored Snacks
- Shark Bites Fruit Flavored Snacks
- Despicable Me Fruit Flavored Snacks
- SpongeBob Fruit Flavored Snacks
- Star Wars Fruit Flavored Snacks
- Trolls Fruit Flavored Snacks
- Dora The Explorer Fruit Flavored Snacks
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fruit Flavored Snacks
- Hello Kitty Fruit Flavored Snacks
- El Chavo Fruit Flavored Snacks
- DC Superhero Girls Fruit Flavored Snacks
- Thomas and Friends Fruit Flavored Snacks
The packaging for these snacks prominently declare that they contain “No Artificial Flavors” and “No Colors From Artificial Sources.” However, it appears that they contain an artificial version of “malic acid” — a chemical manufactured in petrochemical plants from benzene or butane — for flavoring.
If you purchased any of these General Mills fruit-flavored snacks, please contact Finkelstein, Blankinship, Frei-Pearson & Garber, LLP to discuss your legal options. FBFG has successfully prosecuted false advertising claims on behalf of consumers.