Today's epic Hershey's vitamins and minerals fail (ALWAYS read the label)

[DainBramaged]

[SocialistLez]

1. Ha ha

[PSPS]

2. It was actually a printing error. They left off the '1' and the correct value is 10%.

My bottle says 10%.

[DainBramaged]

4. Does it make it any less FAIL?

[unblock]

6. glad to hear that. i always seek my nutrition from chocolate syrup.

if it weren't for that, i'd only be getting 90% of my daily calcium and i'd have to eat 15 more ho-ho's to get that last 10%.

[jberryhill]

7. I down ten of these a day, just for the vitamin E alone!

[gmoney]

3. Side note about orange juice that adds calcium

Evidently, the acid in orange juice can actually make your body lose calcium, so the +calcium versions are basically an attempt to offset this loss. So if you drink a lot of OJ, consider the +calcium version.

[drm604]

5. Not really a fail.

Those numbers are per serving. If you look on the left it says that there are about 17 servings per container. They're allowed to round down the numbers, so if 1 serving contains less than some fractional percent (I don't know the exact number) of calcium they list it as 0%.

The label does list tricalcium phosphate as an ingredient which, according to Wikipedia, is occasionally used as a calcium supplement so, if we can believe the label, there is calcium.

Don't get me started on legal but dishonest labeling. Anyone trying to avoid something like trans-fats can tell you about that. The labels trumpet "0 TRANS FATS", then in much smaller print they say "per serving" and the serving size is half a potato chip or something similarly silly and the truth is that it does contain trans fats. Zero per serving is not zero per package, and the serving size they state is frequently much smaller than the amount someone would actually eat.

[DainBramaged]

9. I find it amazing how anyone could defend this shit

It is a fail. make excuses all you want. This shit hasn't for 20+ years and never will again, touched my lips. It's too bad parents don't read the label. What a sorry ass excuse for getting vitamins and minerals.

[drm604]

10. And I find it amazing that anyone could read my post and think that I was defending it.

My point was that it wasn't a fail, it was a result of the horrible state of our current labeling laws.

[kittykitty]

8. But the main ingredient is HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP! n/t