This is simply a way to cover themselves for any cross contamination that could potentially happen in the factory. It's unlikely and nothing to be concerned about unless you have an allergy to the listed potential ingredients. I use to work in a food factory and there are a lot of protocols in place to prevent cross contamination but there is always room for error and this is a safeguard against law suits and a warning for those with extreme allergies. If the ingredient isn't on the list of ingredients it's not likely in your food.
@@Joso997Great Value sells seafood products. They probably have multiple factories, but they put the "may contain ..." so that people with allergies know that there may be some cross contamination. Hope this answered your question?
Exactly this. Many places will include these warnings if they produce multiple items. Same reason you see "may contain traces of peanuts" in food that doesn't contain peanuts but the brand company may have peanut foods in general. Since GV has almost everything, they have to cover their ass and probably produce similar items in factories because the processes are closer than you think.
Bioengineered is perfectly safe. People get all upset over GMOs but actually they are entirely safe, there are wonky a handful of GMO products on the market and they have never caused a single problem.
@@crazyrobots6565 depends on how exactly it was modified. The gene modification itself is safe, as an instrument. But we could use it to increase nutritional value and resistance to diseases and pests, which is wonderful, or it can be used to increase resistance to herbicides, which means higher usage of herbicides during growing
Literally no way of someone knowing that unless they search it up themselves. It would seem weird to most people that a factory that makes marshmallows, also processes anchovies. People really need to stop insulting others because of they don't know a basic fact like this, I see it way too often online.
@@MD-ex7cgit's only because they're sheltered. My whole family knows this shit. They're mostly cops or military or white collar... This is known to anyone who understands a kitchen... Or a cutting board...
I worked at multiple companies that have done work for Walmart. If we know a mistake is made, we usually let it go because Walmart standards are so low. They are OK with us sending out bad product whether it be food or furniture
Those often just mean it was packaged or stored in a warehouse or factory that also packages those things. It's not necessarily an ingredient, just a potential contaminant for severe food allergies. Edit: good civil conversation. Nice.
True, but that's usually for common allergies like milk or nuts. Tilapia doesn't seem like it would be processed on the same equipment as marshmellows...maybe it's just me! Lol
@@marywood8794 fish are actually part of the “big 9” food allergies, which does also include milk and nut allergies, so that’s why random fish might be listed! Also theres actually another warning “processed in a facility with” the distinction from may contain is that may contain is higher risk because the actual surface/equipment was likely shared versus just manufactured in the same factory
I’m dead when u put it like that It make sense. Just hope you ant allergic to fish My G other then that we str8 over her. Give me 3 and a bag of marshmallows.
This is because of changes that the government made regarding reporting of allergens. New requirements are that companies have to prove that they do not have allergens in their products. This testing is more extensive and a little bit more expensive, so companies are now just stating that they have allergens in their products rather than having to test to prove that they don't. It's a lie and it's making it very difficult for people who have allergies to find products that are safe
@@ericdecker2914 it's rare that cross contamination happens but it can is the point they rather be safe than sorry every food processing place has listings like this on the back to protect from law suits in the rare chance it does happen
@@ericdecker2914 most factories do multi processing and have very strict protocols against contamination so it rarely happens. But just in case some spiteful fucker at night shift decides to be petty, this label protects the from lawsuits.
@@ericdecker2914 And labeling the possibility of trace amounts of allergens is entirely voluntary. There's no FDA regulation forcing companies to state what their products are packaged around. At least Walmart says it. Most people will never know what else their food gets packaged with. And, when someone has a reaction, there is a chance they will never find out why. Because most people aren't gonna think to blame candy for trace amounts of fish. Walmart is just covering all bases and it's actually fortunate. Though I suspect it's after a settlement from a previous incident(s).
As a former Walmart worker and cook I can help with this. First of all they almost always come from the same factory. So that protects them legally from cross contamination lawsuits. Secondly as for the anchovies a lot of foods will use stuff like anchovies. Not enough to give it a fishy flavor but in the case if the anchovies to add umami flavor to it. For the marshmallows they are made from Jello which is made from animal bones. Fun fact most factories will use stuff like pork where a factory that is kosher will use stuff like cow or fish bones. Whichever they can get more of for cheaper. So going back to the tilapia in the marshmallows. Remember how I said a lot of this stuff comes from the same factories. Well quite simply they made all their marshmallows kosher so anyone who is Jewish or Muslim. Or any other religion that doesn't allow the eating of pork to be able to eat them guilt free. This expanding the market. It's weird but in reality all the big brands do it to the only difference. They will use fancy big overcomplicated words. That legally will cover their buts in court but still hide the truth from consumers. So in this situation Walmart is actually the more honest brand.
I researched diabetic medicine that used pork. According to one Jewish authority, if the product is processed well, it is no longer deemed unclean. What?
@@lrajic8281 Not to sound anti-semetic but it's because they essentially trying to keep holy but at a certain point it becomes literally impossible. I mean stopping yourself from eating pork is easy it's gonna be really hard to stop multi-billion dollar pharma companies to not use pigs for medicine. So it's sorta easier to reason that at a certain point the "pork" becomes non existent at a certain point. It's the same concept of it's impossible to be 100% green because everything you do and buy has a ecological cost far exceeding your own capability to offset it.
@@lrajic8281 fair enough but still that's a lot of time and work that Walmart isn't going to do. A medical company has more restrictions then food production.
I worked in a food grade manufacturing plant for over twenty years, and it is a good thing when the plant makes/package many different items. It means the equipment is getting thoroughly cleaned regularly. If a plant only does one or two items, that equipment is going until the plant shutdowns at the end and middle of the year. Until then, it just light cleaning of what you can see.
That's not obvious that would be the case, but it totally makes sense when one thinks of how people/organizations will do the least amount of work if they can get away with doing so.
@@ComebackGAWD Something to consider... Most Asian and African countries have very low if any health and safety standards. Think about that when you buy fish and shellfish farm raised in China or India or cocoa from Africa.
@@funhouseofschadenfreude853 you'd be surprised how "relaxed" some federal and private regulations are. "Relaxed" meaning you'd think they'd be more strict. Considering all the food manufacturers/commercial kitchens I've worked in, the production floor is very akin to a well cleaned, 100 year old basement. Not a speck of cobweb or dirt anywhere but still all cement filled with cracks and chips, half assed patches, sometimes kinda moist and funny smelling. The western world is still the best when it comes to food quality and safety Fun fact: everywhere that produces or serves food has or will have mice/rats/cockroaches, just the really good ones have good control on them. Meaning the cleanest restaurant in the US will still see at least 1-2 roaches a month
When you are producing generic products for several companies, a lot of the equipment and machinery is shared with different foods. The blueberries [ETA: and/or artificial blueberry flavoring containing NO blueberries] in the syrup may have been poached in the same kettle that they were making Caesar salad dressing in earlier in the week (which contains anchovies). Even though the equipment is rigorously cleaned and sterilized between production, it’s still a good idea from a legal standpoint to list the allergens to free up any liability should someone have a reaction. They were clearly warned by the packaging and if they have a major sensitivity, maybe don’t buy the product.
There is no blueberry in blueberry syrup. It's regular syrup with blueberry flavoring which isn't made from blueberry. Almost no flavoring is derived from its natural form. Google chemicals in strawberry flavoring. It's like 60 chemicals
@@iDontKnow77999 can you clarify this statement largely the lab part, VOC (with a quick look mind you) dont sound dangerous, as its largely a process of how scents can be "formed" am i far off?
@@MrThfknsamurai i guess they could have lied with this particular bottle but the ingredient list shown here did say "blueberry juice concentrate" and "blueberry puree" so 🤷♀️
@@blazerernst9878 I have a feeling Dylan was joking since everything is made up of chemicals, just saying there are a lot dont mean theyre the bad kind.
The “may contain” is so they can avoid lawsuits (also I think it’s an FDA requirement) from people with food allergies and intolerances because the item was made in the same factory as something containing the anchovies. (Since some people can have allergic reactions from super small traces, as well as airborne particles)
@@anna-flora999 what is that one type of fish doing there that they know it's just that type? If it's just "oh yeah, we use the machines with fish too, we clean it but just to be safe" then the same machine should have different kinds of fish making them unable to specify, there has to be some more direct interaction with that specific type of fish that makes it different from all others and that interaction is What people are concerned about
As someone with allergies I'm extremely grateful for those labels on every brand. Not only should they be mandatory, they are necessary in order to prevent cross contamination. It means that syrup is made in a facility that also uses anchovies. Probably a sauce factory
Unfortunately, they're not mandatory. And, there are still many companies that out source part of the production and/or packaging process. So, if there is no label addressing it, it's always a possibility.
It absolutely should be mandatory, there are too many people who will become anaphylactic from even a single speck of dust/drop from their allergen(s).
@@labj143it is mandatory for the 8 most common allergens in the US. Wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, dairy, eggs, fish, and shellfish! Which leaves anybody allergic to corn in a really unfortunate position, because corn is about the 10th most common allergen and it's in tons of stuff under a lot of different names because there's soooo many corn byproducts
@@harmonicaveronica"Contains" and "May Contain" have different meanings. It's only mandatory if it is an ingredient or the "food source". But just being produced in the same facility, even if there is a risk of cross contamination, it is not required. This is because it's assumed that sanitary laws cover this part. That's why "produced in a facility..." or "may contain" labels are so frustrating. Because they are entirely voluntary and are different from the "contains" labels. And some companies only use the label for some parts of their brand, even though all the food has the same risk(being from the same production facility). For example, leaving out the "may contain" label because it is "organic" or "alternative" because it looks worse for the product.
The blueberry syrup is made on some of the same equipment as Worcestershire Sauce and it contains anchovies. They let you know in case you are allergic to fish.
What's unfortunate that people don't read labels and wouldn't expect to have a allergic reaction to something that would seem to have nothing to do with something they are allergic to.
@@PageCreationsif they're allergic, even extremely allergic, those people make a habit to read every label anyway. if some people don't, they should. sometimes companies change their ingredients so it's best to read every label every time ❤
To be fair, marshmallows are made with gelatin and gelatin can come from fishbones. It can also come from hooves of animals but most commonly it is known to come from bones. But if they used tilapia bones to get the gelatin, it's really not strange at all. It's also why there's gelatin if you cool down your Bone broth. Marshmallows are just whipped sweeted cornstarch, and gelatin.
@@JosephQPublic so if a typical ingredient of marshmallows is found protentially near marshmallows it means that they may not be in the marshmallows? Theres a non-zero chance, but highly unlikely.
Also, you're going to get anchovies, hfcs, and whatever else as "syrup" flavoring when you buy something other than pure syrup. Pure syrup only has one ingredient: make syrup.
ChatGPT said this... 'This warning is likely a result of shared processing facilities where products with allergens like fish (anchovies and tilapia) are also processed. Manufacturers use these warnings to alert consumers who may have severe allergies to certain ingredients, even if those ingredients are not intentionally added to the product. It's a precautionary measure to ensure transparency about potential cross-contamination during the production process.' Make sense working in restaurants most all my life.
Always read ingredients on everything. Keep in mind that "may contain" is not an actual ingredient it's just a possible contaminant due to proximity in the factory.
"may contain tracers of..." just means the machines they're using are also used for those other foods. They likely won't have any trace of those other foods, but there might be occasionally
Would machines that process blueberry syrup also be processing anchovies though? Or would mini marshmallows be packaged in the same factory as tilapia? Even occasionally?
@@ElizabethT45 I mean why would you buy a bottling machine, when you can buy the one that also cans anchovies? To be honest they probably bottle Worcestershire sauce (which is made from anchovies) and other marinades. The marshmallows are probably just being run through a generic plastic bag/sealer machine.
@@AidanStewart9 "may contain traces" is very significant. I am allergic to tree nuts (and many other things but that's besides the point) and the difference between may contain and may contain traces is huge. May contain is typically okay for someone with an allergy to eat, but traces means that it was processed on equipment used with an allergen. "Traces" can cause a severe allergic reaction.
@@blargy3662 Exactly this, its mainly a warning for allergenic purposes so that the business is covered and can't have legal action taken against them because 'it was on the package'. The chances are extremely low, and it could be as simple as someone's glove broke, they touched the microwave in the breakroom, who someone else touched, then put on a glove with that hand which they then touched a small section of product with and it transferred a miniscule trace of it which then may even be spread across a huge batch of something so its almost negligible. But, its there because that or something else could potentially happen at some point and they don't want to be liable. Fun fact, a number of food factories process some weird stuff, usually multiple foods that share common ingrediants.
The best is the no name stuff "with less than 10 ingredients" that says "marinade and spices", when the previous label split those in at least 20 ingredients...
The gelatin in the marshmallows is sourced from Tilapia scales. This is a byproduct of fish farming and has the side benefit of guaranteeing the product is kosher. Your other marshmallows may contain traces of pork/beef/whatever they decided to get the gelatin from.
@J Girl fish scales have collegen in them. Collegen is extracted to create a gelatin solution. These scales and bones used in this process are usually deemed "fish waste" and would otherwise be thrown away. Creating gelatin from fish waste I assume helps somewhat with emissions in regard to waste disposal, though I'm not sure about the carbon footprint of the process itself. So it may cancel itself out in that aspect.
@@codynoth4183 Because there are people out there who are religious, but still would like to enjoy marshmallows? That's part of the nice thing about the large selection of items on offer. You can find something that fits your wants while still following dietary restrictions/preferences or religious beliefs.
When it says “may contain” it usually has to do with what’s also being made/packaged in the same factory. It’s important that they do this incase people have allergies.
@@13lood13aththis often happens. Its not common. You can find similar things on every wrapper. What concerns me is the bioengineered shit in the marshmallows.
@@Men_Of_Culture33 trust me marshmallows are not being tampered with I don't know why people fear gmo stuff so much without gmos our population would for sure collapse
As others have clarified, those aren't the ingredients per se, they're warnings about possible cross contamination at various stages of processing, packaging, storage etc. Trace amounts. That's less than the amount of insect parts allowable in peanut butter and just in case someone with a severe allergy has a reaction. When I say severe, some folks can go into anaphylaxis after touching the same table as someone who ate a pb sandwich. Or feel their throat itching when someone has a pb sandwich an a zip loc bag in the desk drawers.
The fish are used for gelatin. That's what makes marshmallows fluffy and plump, and makes syrup thicker than water. They've usually been taken from pigs, but then it can't be kosher or halal, so they use fish derived gelatin now
Well to bad for those people cause I love me peanut butter toast and peanut butter sammichs I'm not even gonna lie if I'm enjoying my sammich and an asshole starts swelling up I ain't gonna move a god damn bit for them they seen me enjoying my shit and chose to walk near me they new the risk and took it so unless they got an EpiPen handy they just gonna die and I ain't gonna do a thing to help them
@@danvondrasek not usually the case for "may contain traces of", when they use a potential allergen for gelatine, they usually specify "gelatine (from beef/fish/pork)" A product that is the source of a primary ingredient is NOT a "trace" exposure.
@@lwolfstar7618 often they don’t say what kind of gelatin is used, at least in the us. it makes it a little hard to figure out what my brother can and can’t eat sometimes, since he’s allergic to pork
This would be me. I never go into a store ,a bank, an office or a hospital alone. I don't get in other people's car and if I didn't make it I'm not eating it.
Fun fact: that likely has to do with factory and warehouse practices. If packaged in the same plant as peanut products, you need to put your item as a peanut allergy. It's no mistake that most those warnings are seafood and other common food allergies. Now the real question is: Why are they packaging/producing them in the same plant?
It's a USDA thing. If they have multiple different items, say, they're processing shrimp egg rolls, crab rangoon, and fortune cookies all in the same plant, then they would have to write "May contain traces of shrimp and crawfish" on all three items, because there's a 0.00001% chance that somehow the shrimp cross contaminates across whatever boundaries they have set up. So, the Great Value processing plants are likely one supermassive structure with lots of assembly lines all being operated in closed off rooms from one another. But just in *case* anything goes awry, they are "legally" covered so long as management has done their due diligence and stuff.
@@Fetidaf Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deals in its sale directly to consumers, so restaurants and groceries. US Dept of Agriculture has a lot more oversight than its name suggests, but it deals in the gathering and production of foods.
I do some work in food regulatory up here in Canada, and the "may contain" section lists other foods that are processed on the same line or in the same factory. Now if its in the "Contains" section, you have something to really worry about.
can confirm - as a Canadian you're legit an entire planet from me in Australia, we say "MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF" which means it's not an ingredient, but that the product was processed on the same line. I'm allergic to nuts and eat food that says "MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF NUTS" on the label all the time, never had a reaction. My allergies are vasodilatory-dependent-response though, so be careful. Australia doesn't have some secret formula to keep contaminants out, and we copy most of our shit from America to begin with... If something is consistent from Canada to Australia, you can bet your ass it's consistent. America is the land of the lawsuit after all...
Not really surprised, I still remember where I was when I began understanding that Caesar dressing has anchovy paste as an actual ingredient, without knowing its history.
As someone with a deadly anchovy allergy, these warnings are extremely important. Basically, the same vat that makes your yummy pancake goop also stirs up something with anchovies, likely Worcestershire Sauce. Cross contamination can be deadly, and they can't be 100% certain that the vat got totally clean, so they cover their butts.
If there is any chance of cross-contamination, they are putting it on the label now. The FDA made changes to rules regarding allergen cross-contamination and labeling, so most companies, instead of spending millions to not have to put something on the label by redoing their production lines, just slapped any possible allergen in the production line on the labels and moved on. The FDA and allergen watch groups were dissatisfied, but it's perfectly within the rules.
@@Sir_Crumpet21bro, factories have TONS of products being produced. They just get made and packed in the same plant. It's genuinely not that deep. We live in the most sanitized time of the world and yall are really worried about traces of stuff in your food. I pray you never see how some of that stuff is made. Just remember, nothing goes to waste during production unless it violates policies. If something is dropped on the ground, it gets packed anyway. You're probably eating shoe bacteria in your porterhouse 😋
The factory simply produces more than one product and therefore there’s a minor risk of cross-contamination. It’s primarily so that anyone with a severe allergy can know that there could be trace amounts of foods that you wouldn’t normally expect to be in the product. It’s nothing for most of us to worry about and it’s how Walmart is able to deliver lower costs.
Yes, they do it in case of cross contamination. But what factory makes marshmallows and tilapia? Or Blueberry syrup and anchovies? The marshmallows and the blueberry syrup in the same factory, sure! The anchovies and the tilapia together, absolutely. But what factory makes fish products and sugar products? Please, please find me one. (Speaking as someone with extreme allergies, who needs to know more about some products than is even on the labels).
Baby formula or products with otherwise high doses of omega 3 fats can contain fish oils. Maybe that has something to do with it idk? The factory i work at makes powderbases for babyformula using tuna oil while in a different part of the factory we make powderbases for coffeecreamer, chocolate milk, milk tea's, etc...
You realize a lot of brands do this. The likelihood is low, but they package things in the same factory, so they have to cover their butt in case trace amounts of something get through
As someone who had a huge issue with food allergens and whole foods "organic" claims.... allergens can be introduced in ALL areas of a supply chain. Not just the factory, plant, or packaging facility. Just the fact that they store all the food in the back of the same building, plus they don't exactly support their staff the best to expect safety in handling.
I know this one! If they have something in the same factory (even if it's in a completely different area and shouldn't be able to) it can travel to different parts of the factory. For example if someone spills anchovies on a forklift and that forklift is needed in another part of the building and didn't get cleaned well enough it may transfer a trace amount of anchovies into that other product that can affect someone's fish allergy. The warning is just for the fact that if it does trigger an allergy then they're covered.
But when someone actually has an allergy they just cant eat like half the foods that have nothing to do with said allergy, instead of companies following better procedures. Source: I cant have any contamination from peanuts or I can die.
It's not even just about food allergies; everybody should be doing that! This is super disappointing This is where we've come to in our society.... You know when nuclear families are actually still a thing women were expected to read the ingredients and understand. And they would complain if there were things in there that they didn't like.... People are ignorant today even though they've all this information at their fingertips because they're lazy and blindly trusting. This is why I'm super glad I'm a stay at home wife and mother. I can see where there would have been potential if I was busy with a career and trying to juggle my family that I wouldn't think to do things like read labels. But because I started to I handled most of my health problems that the doctors couldn't solve... I found out that I have issues with PEGs but most people do, lavender and soy are in many products and they build up in your body if you use them too often and can disrupt your endocrine system. There are many eco-washing products out there like vinyl and polyurethane for fake leather that are way more harmful to the environment and the consumer. studies have proven these things for a very long time but people want to make money and they get away with it at the people's detriment. Especially the soft-hearted that anthropomorphize animals. Not to mention the way that the pharmaceutical industry works. When I had dip my toes in the idea of becoming a pharmacist, and was becoming a pharmacy tech I learned about how the public is off in the first trials of new medications. If the first few ingredients of a medication are the same as the previous they can add in a bunch of toxic chemicals they haven't tested on people yet. This is where the concept of let your doctor know about side effects came from... It's not so that your narcissistic doctor can help you It's so that they can log it in a database and you can be their guinea pig. At least most times the doctors won't even know the first thing about how to help you with that. I think it's interesting that a lot of the face masks people were wearing were made of microplastics and then they found microplastics in toxic levels and people's blood and lungs after the pandemic. But there was a study about 10 years before the pandemic that already proved that those kinds of masks are likely to do that when used often. That's partly why many surgeons actually wear organic cotton masks and similar. Not to mention other things like the PEGs involved in the vaccines and medications being handed out. These things all can cause the symptoms of what they call long COVID. So I find that very interesting and coincidental. Don't you???
@@ari3lz3pp Clearly you have too much free time because you're joining a lot of dots that don't exist. Also you might wanna actually look up what life was like for housewives in the past, they were not sitting around reading ingredient lists. Most of them had part time jobs too.
As someone with an egg allergy, now that almost everything has egg in it, I have to read it before I even consider buying it bc 9/10 times it’ll have egg 😭
No concerns about food allergies on my end, but I still read the ingredients and nutrition facts list because I care to know what’s going in my body. It’s crazy to think people don’t normally do this regardless of allergies (especially the nutrition facts).
As someone who has worked in food marketing/labelling/manufacturing and who’s mom’s career was spent in operations thereof: it’s an FDA Allergien requirement and means the facility also processes products with those ingredients and while there should be minimal to no risk of cross contamination between products the warning is required. It’s actually more common than you’d think as it helps keeps prices down since the manufacturing is pay-as-you-go approach to line time for lower production items. (One bottling machine can fill all types of containers after all.) it DOES NOT mean it’s an actual ingredient, only a cross contamination risk. The ingredient list shows what’s actually in your products in order of most prevalent to least with known present allergies bolded at the end. 👍 For the syrup it’s likely the syrup or bottling company also works with fish sauces/juices. Chances are it also processes Walmart’s sauces with anchovies or produces the juices in the anchovies containers.
@@tiffariff I might have an answer, but it's just something I came up with and has no evidence to prove one way or the other. Fish sticks. It's possible that Marshmallows and fish sticks are both an extruded product. Imagine if you have a meat grinder or something like that at home, when you crank the grinder the meat that's in it gets pushed out in little squiggly tubes. Marshmallows and fish sticks I could see being done the same way. Just bigger. I'm sure that made next to no sense, but I'm driving to work.
@@tiffariff it doesn’t mean there’s a whole tilapia involved. Just some product derrived there of. If it’s non vegan marshmallows they often contain animal based gelatin (animal byproduct from tendons/ligaments). If the factory is using fish based byproducts or making them (ex fish meal) that is derived from tilapia that’s how you get the cross contamination risk of tilapia. It’s more about what equipment the factory has than anything. (Note fish sticks involve cooking and storing processes you’d never need for marshmallows so you’d never produce them in the same plant.)
It's always funny when people think that they've brilliantly caught some kind of gotcha, when it's really just that they themselves have absolutely no understanding of how things work.
Too be fair, the world of artificial flavoring is wild so it's not that bad of a guess to just assume they put weird shit in your cheap food. Like vanilla flavoring I feel is a great example of how weird things can get
Yeah but... you would expect them to just... get marshmallows from a factory that produces just marshmallows and similar products. You don't see warnings for fish allergen exposure on other brands.
@@dustinrausch5008it’s wild! All this knowledge in our pockets now with AI that we can poorly phrase a question to and still get the right answer…but people always default to “conspiracy” anytime they notice something unusual 😂
You should read what you're eating anyway!!!! Oh my God. "Contains a bioengineered food" and tetrasodium phosphate are WAY worse than fish bits in your marshmallows my dude.... Not to mention the endocrine disruptors and phthalates in most things today.... This is why people fall for the eco-friendly BS labels on everything.... They're actually contributing to harming the environment and themselves a lot more by getting lots of these synthetic products thinking they're protecting the anthropomorphized animals. It's not that hard to figure it out Just put a tiny bit of effort into it. People that don't read food ingredients are the people that take a job without understanding how pharmacology works, or that many doctors happen to be diagnosably narcissistic or psychopathic and aren't there for your health. Aye yi yie!!!
I have a friend who has to ask what's in the gelatin in the capsules used to hold his medications. I had no idea that type of allergy is a thing, but he had a bad reaction to some of his meds and it took the doctor age to figure out it wasn't the meds causing it, it was something in the capsules.
If your allergy is so bad you can die from touching someone who touched a peanut, you damn well better be reading those ingredients of everything. These large companies have packing machines that all load the same products, but sometimes that is enough to trigger someone's allergies.
I have seafood allergies that are potentially fatal but I am not rereading labels because I always buy the same brands for everything but I will say that I recently saw this and looked at a great value label and saw this and was shocked because I have been using the same sauce for years. They must have done it in recent years or something because anything with seafood is kept out of my house.
@@pipermeh3350 It's just so you can't sue if a worker accidentally cross contaminated them. Likely it won't be, but in a rare case someone may be going to the ER and then you can't sue walmart because they said, I told you so!
Wait until you find out that Great Value products are packaged by plants that also package other things. They are legally required to list "may contain" for anything else packaged in that facility, even if it is in a completely different area. I used to run a line packaging Great Value cooking oil, the labels had to read "may contain peanuts" when it was only handled on completely the other side of the facility.
I'll pass on that. I mean, like when you go to the bakery in your local grocery, and it says, "may contain soy" because why? How do I know that's a "may contain because soy is used in the same building, but we don't intend for it to be there, so it's probably not," or "may contain oil because we might use soy oil, or soy in the ingredients, but we may not, because we are using oil, and protein powder, and can use that in a soy version if we have extra we need to use?" So these days, I just don't use any pre-made food. I make everything myself. This way, I know exactly what's going into my body. I know that's not for most people. Most people eat for pleasure, and like convenience. Both of those are low on my priorities for food. Health, vitality and energy are #1, #2 and #3 on that list.
This is true even if your facility is Allergen free in some case, per my comment from work in an M&M Mars factory. These people don't understand jack and want to make everything a problem, smh.
@@leroyrussell8766you don't know what's you're putting into your body unless you're hurting or farming because even the "fresh meat" is processed and packaged in a random facility which are also processing and packaging other things so there's always risk of cross contamination
@@blumind_nft3264 I buy my meat live from a guy nearby. I then accompany the live animal to the butcher, where I watch it being butchered. 100% grass fed/finished. I've taken care of my health in recent years. All of my health problems are gone. Literally even used to have severely swollen feet and ankles. Not anymore. What you put in your mouth is very important. My biggest concern is with this labeling everything as having something because a trace amount might float through the air and get in the food. Let me ask you this, does your peanut butter list rat hair as an ingredient? No? Why not? There could be rat hair in the peanut butter. I once read that the FDA even allows up to 3 of them in a jar of peanut butter. But why put Soy on every package at the bakery in your store, if it's just the possibility? Is it because many people are now avoiding soy, so this is an attempt to desensitize them? If Soy isn't in the ingredients, and the facility is using proper standards to control cross contamination, there isn't a good reason to put that on the ingredients.
That's not because plutonium is used in food production, that's because plutonium from nuclear testing may have gotten into the environment. Its probably not, but you can thank nuclear testing for that warning.
Sometimes a factory has two separate production lines and a cleaner named Doug. Doug is a Jason among the Matts and Steves, but still very much a Doug.
anchovies are in ceasar salad dressing and worcestershire sauce. This means the blueberry syrup plant shares the same building or equipment as the other two previously mentioned products. They have to wash and sanitize the machines when switching over to a different product, but for liability they have to list any possible cross contamination ingredients.
@@thelittleguy9132it's a misunderstanding. Real Caesar salads contain Worcestershire sauce and anchovies. Caesar dressings are just imitations of the original flavors, with some still containing the ingredients. So an authentic Caesar dressing contains anchovies, but those are a bit rare now
Back in college a friend worked in a food factory. One day there was some kind of mix up and some cross contamination happened so that the Swedish meatball frozen meals contain trace amounts of the wrong meat. It wasn't on the label so all those pallets of frozen meals couldn't be sold. But workers could take as many as they wanted home so that it didn't go to waste. I ate a lot of free Swedish meatballs that winter. Had those boxes had labels like this they would have been able to still sell them. This is just a way to cover their ass. And if this sort of thing keeps you up at night, under no circumstances to you want to look up the FDA allowable limits on bug parts that can be found in your processed food.
@@deadsetondreams1988 You're being very silly. The allowable amount is not remotely close to harmful even for babies. Its also simply not possible to make it without any arsenic since it literally comes from the fruit. They naturally accumulate some arsenic and you'll get a bigger dose of it from an apple. Unless you use a water that contains arsenic to reconstitute it. Arsenic is naturally occuring you're going to have some degree of exposure to it regardless of what you do but fruit juice isn't even high on that list.
That's actually a really clean ingredient list for a bargain brand. But really what it is, is that big brands (the big 6) of food and house hold products have their branch off brands(smaller brands like Windex from p&g etc) that have to pay for a "shelving fee" which dictates where in the stores food is displayed. As if their product is renting shelf space. Think like $100,000 for Kellogg's poptarts to be eye level instead of no name on the bottom shelf which paid $50,000. Stores like Walmart will give discounts to companies to display products in better places for cheaper, if they're rebranded as Walmart's great value brand. Costco does it for grey goose when they use the Kirkland brand label. This is also what affects retail prices at various for the same product. So this change in labelling means that one of those companies that does the great value labelling has a facility that makes products with all those allergens in the same building. Or it could be that labelling requirements in his area became more stringent as they are federally regulated. Basically that label just means "we make a ton of products that contain these allergens. At some point they may cross contaminate and we're putting this warning to make sure you can't sue us if you have an allergic reaction"
The reason that these foods could have traces of other foods is because they were used in the same packaging equipment. It ran through the same mixer. They wash the mixer and then they run the next product but there's always possibility of residue from the previous batch
This is simply a way to cover themselves for any cross contamination that could potentially happen in the factory. It's unlikely and nothing to be concerned about unless you have an allergy to the listed potential ingredients. I use to work in a food factory and there are a lot of protocols in place to prevent cross contamination but there is always room for error and this is a safeguard against law suits and a warning for those with extreme allergies. If the ingredient isn't on the list of ingredients it's not likely in your food.
How can a factory produce both marshmallows and fish
Most great value brands are made in name brand factories to begin with
@@Joso997 fish based gelatine
@@Joso997Great Value sells seafood products. They probably have multiple factories, but they put the "may contain ..." so that people with allergies know that there may be some cross contamination. Hope this answered your question?
Exactly this. Many places will include these warnings if they produce multiple items. Same reason you see "may contain traces of peanuts" in food that doesn't contain peanuts but the brand company may have peanut foods in general.
Since GV has almost everything, they have to cover their ass and probably produce similar items in factories because the processes are closer than you think.
"May contain traces of tilapia" was way, WAY funnier than it has any right to be.
lol him confirming "Thats fish" was what broke me
They use gelatin from tilapia to make sure the marshmallows are kosher/halal
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Yea I got marshmallows from them and I ate the whole bag and then looked at the ingredients and it said that
Most marshmallows are made with gelatin, and gelatin tends to be made from fish bones. It's not actually surprising.
My man knows everything about food, but forgot that anchovies are a natural predator of blueberries, and tilapia eggs are marshmallows.
C'mon people! I learned this in 7th grade biology
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I was finna say, " ain't this just a regular warehouse/factory/manufacturer plant?"
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More shocked at the “bioengineered” part
Bioengineered is perfectly safe.
People get all upset over GMOs but actually they are entirely safe, there are wonky a handful of GMO products on the market and they have never caused a single problem.
Same. It's probably the corn syrup. All crackers say the same thing, except the organic ones. At least they're telling us, I guess.
@@crazyrobots6565 depends on how exactly it was modified. The gene modification itself is safe, as an instrument. But we could use it to increase nutritional value and resistance to diseases and pests, which is wonderful, or it can be used to increase resistance to herbicides, which means higher usage of herbicides during growing
No mention of bioengineering written on the bottle.
It says “contains a bioengineered food ingredient” on the back 🤦🏻♂️
"Dude, I dropped my lunch somewhere in the factory."
"Screw it, we'll just put tilapia on the label."
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Tapioca, maybe
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couldn't possibly be because they are all made in a factory that processes multiple goods and there's a risk of cross contamination at all.
No way! That would require an actual thought process. Outrage and conspiracies get better views 😂
No kidding. if people would think
Literally no way of someone knowing that unless they search it up themselves. It would seem weird to most people that a factory that makes marshmallows, also processes anchovies. People really need to stop insulting others because of they don't know a basic fact like this, I see it way too often online.
@@MD-ex7cgit's only because they're sheltered. My whole family knows this shit. They're mostly cops or military or white collar... This is known to anyone who understands a kitchen... Or a cutting board...
@@MD-ex7cg I mean, I didn't insult anyone, sure, I probably could have been less facetious though
I worked at multiple companies that have done work for Walmart. If we know a mistake is made, we usually let it go because Walmart standards are so low. They are OK with us sending out bad product whether it be food or furniture
Sounds like they’re all made in a fish processing factory
Those often just mean it was packaged or stored in a warehouse or factory that also packages those things. It's not necessarily an ingredient, just a potential contaminant for severe food allergies.
Edit: good civil conversation. Nice.
True, but that's usually for common allergies like milk or nuts. Tilapia doesn't seem like it would be processed on the same equipment as marshmellows...maybe it's just me! Lol
@@marywood8794 I have worked in a food factory. You would be very surprised what is processed in the same factory.
@@marywood8794 that one isnt about allergies its about people who are vegan/ vegetarian
@@marywood8794 fish are actually part of the “big 9” food allergies, which does also include milk and nut allergies, so that’s why random fish might be listed! Also theres actually another warning “processed in a facility with” the distinction from may contain is that may contain is higher risk because the actual surface/equipment was likely shared versus just manufactured in the same factory
@@gamergodofjustice fish is an allergen.
Walmart: “ Look bruh, do you want the deal OR NOT? “
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I’m dead when u put it like that It make sense. Just hope you ant allergic to fish My G other then that we str8 over her. Give me 3 and a bag of marshmallows.
i got a real good laugh out of this, struck me just the right way i guess 😂😂
I’m glad I saw this because my aunt is terribly allergic to fish and you’d never assume these products could trigger
This is because of changes that the government made regarding reporting of allergens. New requirements are that companies have to prove that they do not have allergens in their products. This testing is more extensive and a little bit more expensive, so companies are now just stating that they have allergens in their products rather than having to test to prove that they don't. It's a lie and it's making it very difficult for people who have allergies to find products that are safe
As a former candy processor. This is to avoid lawsuits from cross contamination in the factory during processing and packaging.
@@ericdecker2914 it's rare that cross contamination happens but it can is the point they rather be safe than sorry every food processing place has listings like this on the back to protect from law suits in the rare chance it does happen
@@ericdecker2914 why do you think its dirt cheap?
@@ericdecker2914 most factories do multi processing and have very strict protocols against contamination so it rarely happens. But just in case some spiteful fucker at night shift decides to be petty, this label protects the from lawsuits.
@@ericdecker2914 And labeling the possibility of trace amounts of allergens is entirely voluntary. There's no FDA regulation forcing companies to state what their products are packaged around. At least Walmart says it. Most people will never know what else their food gets packaged with. And, when someone has a reaction, there is a chance they will never find out why. Because most people aren't gonna think to blame candy for trace amounts of fish. Walmart is just covering all bases and it's actually fortunate. Though I suspect it's after a settlement from a previous incident(s).
My thoughts exactly
As a former Walmart worker and cook I can help with this. First of all they almost always come from the same factory. So that protects them legally from cross contamination lawsuits. Secondly as for the anchovies a lot of foods will use stuff like anchovies. Not enough to give it a fishy flavor but in the case if the anchovies to add umami flavor to it. For the marshmallows they are made from Jello which is made from animal bones. Fun fact most factories will use stuff like pork where a factory that is kosher will use stuff like cow or fish bones. Whichever they can get more of for cheaper. So going back to the tilapia in the marshmallows. Remember how I said a lot of this stuff comes from the same factories. Well quite simply they made all their marshmallows kosher so anyone who is Jewish or Muslim. Or any other religion that doesn't allow the eating of pork to be able to eat them guilt free. This expanding the market. It's weird but in reality all the big brands do it to the only difference. They will use fancy big overcomplicated words. That legally will cover their buts in court but still hide the truth from consumers. So in this situation Walmart is actually the more honest brand.
I researched diabetic medicine that used pork. According to one Jewish authority, if the product is processed well, it is no longer deemed unclean. What?
@@lrajic8281 Not to sound anti-semetic but it's because they essentially trying to keep holy but at a certain point it becomes literally impossible. I mean stopping yourself from eating pork is easy it's gonna be really hard to stop multi-billion dollar pharma companies to not use pigs for medicine. So it's sorta easier to reason that at a certain point the "pork" becomes non existent at a certain point.
It's the same concept of it's impossible to be 100% green because everything you do and buy has a ecological cost far exceeding your own capability to offset it.
Sumfin smells fishy
@@lrajic8281 fair enough but still that's a lot of time and work that Walmart isn't going to do. A medical company has more restrictions then food production.
Lol gelatin, not jello..but yes very true
"I got blueberry syrup" No you didn't mate
Consumers not knowing where their consumer goods are manufactured always gets me.
I worked in a food grade manufacturing plant for over twenty years, and it is a good thing when the plant makes/package many different items. It means the equipment is getting thoroughly cleaned regularly. If a plant only does one or two items, that equipment is going until the plant shutdowns at the end and middle of the year. Until then, it just light cleaning of what you can see.
That's not obvious that would be the case, but it totally makes sense when one thinks of how people/organizations will do the least amount of work if they can get away with doing so.
Good perspective let’s hope the food inspectors do their jobs 😔
That is very interesting information and not widelyknown. Thank you for sharing
@@ComebackGAWD Something to consider... Most Asian and African countries have very low if any health and safety standards.
Think about that when you buy fish and shellfish farm raised in China or India or cocoa from Africa.
@@funhouseofschadenfreude853 you'd be surprised how "relaxed" some federal and private regulations are.
"Relaxed" meaning you'd think they'd be more strict. Considering all the food manufacturers/commercial kitchens I've worked in, the production floor is very akin to a well cleaned, 100 year old basement. Not a speck of cobweb or dirt anywhere but still all cement filled with cracks and chips, half assed patches, sometimes kinda moist and funny smelling. The western world is still the best when it comes to food quality and safety
Fun fact: everywhere that produces or serves food has or will have mice/rats/cockroaches, just the really good ones have good control on them. Meaning the cleanest restaurant in the US will still see at least 1-2 roaches a month
When you are producing generic products for several companies, a lot of the equipment and machinery is shared with different foods. The blueberries [ETA: and/or artificial blueberry flavoring containing NO blueberries] in the syrup may have been poached in the same kettle that they were making Caesar salad dressing in earlier in the week (which contains anchovies). Even though the equipment is rigorously cleaned and sterilized between production, it’s still a good idea from a legal standpoint to list the allergens to free up any liability should someone have a reaction. They were clearly warned by the packaging and if they have a major sensitivity, maybe don’t buy the product.
There is no blueberry in blueberry syrup. It's regular syrup with blueberry flavoring which isn't made from blueberry. Almost no flavoring is derived from its natural form. Google chemicals in strawberry flavoring. It's like 60 chemicals
let’s say I believe you, please make marshmallows and tilapia make sense.
@@iDontKnow77999 can you clarify this statement largely the lab part, VOC (with a quick look mind you) dont sound dangerous, as its largely a process of how scents can be "formed" am i far off?
@@MrThfknsamurai i guess they could have lied with this particular bottle but the ingredient list shown here did say "blueberry juice concentrate" and "blueberry puree" so 🤷♀️
@@blazerernst9878 I have a feeling Dylan was joking since everything is made up of chemicals, just saying there are a lot dont mean theyre the bad kind.
I literally thought "fish excrements" on a whim and when he said anchovies I lost it
Jordan in the gym tryin to hidethe fact he's a cat person 😂😂
The “may contain” is so they can avoid lawsuits (also I think it’s an FDA requirement) from people with food allergies and intolerances because the item was made in the same factory as something containing the anchovies.
(Since some people can have allergic reactions from super small traces, as well as airborne particles)
Then why not just say “may contain fish”. Why so specific? And with multiple different species of fish.
@@TheCoopMan As someone with food allergies, people can have allergies to specific fish but not others, so it’s helpful to know
@@TheCoopMan if they know its just one kind of fish, why not specify it?
I have a seafood allergy so them putting tilapia in marshmallows is still asking for a case 😭
@@anna-flora999 what is that one type of fish doing there that they know it's just that type?
If it's just "oh yeah, we use the machines with fish too, we clean it but just to be safe" then the same machine should have different kinds of fish making them unable to specify, there has to be some more direct interaction with that specific type of fish that makes it different from all others and that interaction is What people are concerned about
As someone with allergies I'm extremely grateful for those labels on every brand. Not only should they be mandatory, they are necessary in order to prevent cross contamination. It means that syrup is made in a facility that also uses anchovies. Probably a sauce factory
Unfortunately, they're not mandatory. And, there are still many companies that out source part of the production and/or packaging process. So, if there is no label addressing it, it's always a possibility.
Wait I thought it was mandatory!! I genuinely mean this, thank you for letting me know it's important to know that I was wrong
It absolutely should be mandatory, there are too many people who will become anaphylactic from even a single speck of dust/drop from their allergen(s).
@@labj143it is mandatory for the 8 most common allergens in the US. Wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, dairy, eggs, fish, and shellfish! Which leaves anybody allergic to corn in a really unfortunate position, because corn is about the 10th most common allergen and it's in tons of stuff under a lot of different names because there's soooo many corn byproducts
@@harmonicaveronica"Contains" and "May Contain" have different meanings. It's only mandatory if it is an ingredient or the "food source". But just being produced in the same facility, even if there is a risk of cross contamination, it is not required. This is because it's assumed that sanitary laws cover this part. That's why "produced in a facility..." or "may contain" labels are so frustrating. Because they are entirely voluntary and are different from the "contains" labels. And some companies only use the label for some parts of their brand, even though all the food has the same risk(being from the same production facility). For example, leaving out the "may contain" label because it is "organic" or "alternative" because it looks worse for the product.
“Thats FISH” 😂
After being diagnosed with 8 out of the top 9 food allergies, I had to stop using so many great value things because of this
The blueberry syrup is made on some of the same equipment as Worcestershire Sauce and it contains anchovies. They let you know in case you are allergic to fish.
What's unfortunate that people don't read labels and wouldn't expect to have a allergic reaction to something that would seem to have nothing to do with something they are allergic to.
But! Anything with Worcestershire sauce in the ingredients from GV does NOT have an anchovy warning!
@@Buyobuyonekoblueberry syrup is made near the salad dressing. Caesar salad dressing has anchovies. It’s cuz some salad dressing has sweetener added.
I'm not sure this makes anyone feel better lol
@@PageCreationsif they're allergic, even extremely allergic, those people make a habit to read every label anyway. if some people don't, they should. sometimes companies change their ingredients so it's best to read every label every time ❤
To be fair, marshmallows are made with gelatin and gelatin can come from fishbones. It can also come from hooves of animals but most commonly it is known to come from bones. But if they used tilapia bones to get the gelatin, it's really not strange at all. It's also why there's gelatin if you cool down your Bone broth.
Marshmallows are just whipped sweeted cornstarch, and gelatin.
Can doesn’t mean is.
@@JosephQPublic so if a typical ingredient of marshmallows is found protentially near marshmallows it means that they may not be in the marshmallows? Theres a non-zero chance, but highly unlikely.
Also, you're going to get anchovies, hfcs, and whatever else as "syrup" flavoring when you buy something other than pure syrup. Pure syrup only has one ingredient: make syrup.
Just learned something new,thanks
That explains the gelatin but what about the anchovies😅
ChatGPT said this...
'This warning is likely a result of shared processing facilities where products with allergens like fish (anchovies and tilapia) are also processed. Manufacturers use these warnings to alert consumers who may have severe allergies to certain ingredients, even if those ingredients are not intentionally added to the product. It's a precautionary measure to ensure transparency about potential cross-contamination during the production process.'
Make sense working in restaurants most all my life.
The fact that y’all are more worried about the anchovies than the chemicals they put in it is what is even scarier.
Always read ingredients on everything. Keep in mind that "may contain" is not an actual ingredient it's just a possible contaminant due to proximity in the factory.
What sane factory is processing marshmallows right next to fish?? “Mom, these marshmallows smell funny!”
@@davidtaylor9999 Fish geletin maybe
@@davidtaylor9999 You're going to lose your mind when you find out what gelatin is made from. You know, a primary ingredient in marshmallows.
@@hola9559bones?
@@hola9559 is it pig intestines?
"may contain tracers of..." just means the machines they're using are also used for those other foods. They likely won't have any trace of those other foods, but there might be occasionally
Smart! I never even thought of that. I was out here trying to think of all these scenarios too lol
Would machines that process blueberry syrup also be processing anchovies though? Or would mini marshmallows be packaged in the same factory as tilapia? Even occasionally?
So cross contamination basically?
@@ElizabethT45 I mean why would you buy a bottling machine, when you can buy the one that also cans anchovies?
To be honest they probably bottle Worcestershire sauce (which is made from anchovies) and other marinades.
The marshmallows are probably just being run through a generic plastic bag/sealer machine.
@@wesliskreativeplayhouse1440 yes, exactly that
This is like getting scared that your coffee from McDonald's may have trace amounts of grease
"That's fish". I don't know why but he said that really funny.
Its actually really common in a lot of brands that make different products in the same factory in case cross contamination happens.
Walmart sucks don't buy anything from Walmart if you do you suck 2
Yeah but fish?! and marshmallows?! In the same factory?!
@@brucetidwell7715Fish gelitan is Kosher. Any marshmallow that says it has kosher gelatin 50-50 that’s fish.
@@knittydani Oh! ok. Wow! Thanks for the info.
@@brucetidwell7715The other 50% is agar. I was a vegetarian for many years and have weird food ingredient knowledge. Lol
Alternative conclusion: Walmart hires fish people to handle syrups and marshmallows.
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I like this better than the boring reality of it
Walmart found Bikini Bottom
"So fish people by dint of being fish people are automatically less organized than non fish people?!"
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It just means it’s made in the same factory but has those items. It’s just a legal way to cover their self.
The fish doesnt overpower the taste it adds character to the off brand 😂
It's because those products are on different lines in the same building. It's to make sure you don't sue them because of food allergies.
They should make bigger warning font size letters. Seems to me like a gap of liability for the seller not the consumer
No it's because the fish are used to make gelatin, which is a common ingredient in both of those items he showed.
@@danvondrasek Danny it says may contain on the ingredients. Not assuring it may have fish gelatin.
I do not shop at WalMart anymore so
Ya check it all y'all...
@@reginaaguilar9300 good use of your time posting that.
"May Contain" is a disclaimer. Your syrup may be produced in a facility that also produces and processes anchovies.
This dude making the video is a creep!
Not only that but may contain “traces” lol people love overreacting man
@@AidanStewart9 "may contain traces" is very significant. I am allergic to tree nuts (and many other things but that's besides the point) and the difference between may contain and may contain traces is huge. May contain is typically okay for someone with an allergy to eat, but traces means that it was processed on equipment used with an allergen. "Traces" can cause a severe allergic reaction.
@@blargy3662 Exactly this, its mainly a warning for allergenic purposes so that the business is covered and can't have legal action taken against them because 'it was on the package'. The chances are extremely low, and it could be as simple as someone's glove broke, they touched the microwave in the breakroom, who someone else touched, then put on a glove with that hand which they then touched a small section of product with and it transferred a miniscule trace of it which then may even be spread across a huge batch of something so its almost negligible. But, its there because that or something else could potentially happen at some point and they don't want to be liable.
Fun fact, a number of food factories process some weird stuff, usually multiple foods that share common ingrediants.
Who the hell processes fish & blueberry syrup at the same time 💀
Not me contemplating sneaking downstairs at 2 am to go look at the back of my pancake mix because may contain traces of WHAT NOW?!
Sounds like they the only ones being honest lmao
A bunch of extra ingredients that I wasn't expecting and technically didn't pay for? I'd say that's Great Value!
This needs to be higher. This comment is gold.
Extra health inside.
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The best is the no name stuff "with less than 10 ingredients" that says "marinade and spices", when the previous label split those in at least 20 ingredients...
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"Man, I love eating tilapia"
"But you are eating marshmallows"
*DID I STUTTER*
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Well done
Did you know tilapia are farm raised and eat duck poop? Look it up.😊
Aren't marshmallows and gelatin
derived from bone, tho?
The bioengineered food product is something we’ve always known, but tilapia marshmallows?
heaven forbid my maple syrup was created in the vicinity of fish
The gelatin in the marshmallows is sourced from Tilapia scales. This is a byproduct of fish farming and has the side benefit of guaranteeing the product is kosher. Your other marshmallows may contain traces of pork/beef/whatever they decided to get the gelatin from.
Really? That's so interesting. I had no idea that fish scales had gelatin in them
@J Girl fish scales have collegen in them. Collegen is extracted to create a gelatin solution. These scales and bones used in this process are usually deemed "fish waste" and would otherwise be thrown away. Creating gelatin from fish waste I assume helps somewhat with emissions in regard to waste disposal, though I'm not sure about the carbon footprint of the process itself. So it may cancel itself out in that aspect.
Why the fuck are we concerned if shit is Kosher or not?
@Cody NotH if you aren't Jewish then you wouldn't be.
@@codynoth4183 Because there are people out there who are religious, but still would like to enjoy marshmallows? That's part of the nice thing about the large selection of items on offer. You can find something that fits your wants while still following dietary restrictions/preferences or religious beliefs.
When it says “may contain” it usually has to do with what’s also being made/packaged in the same factory. It’s important that they do this incase people have allergies.
But WHY are marshmallows and fish being made/packaged in the same factory?
@@13lood13aththis often happens. Its not common. You can find similar things on every wrapper. What concerns me is the bioengineered shit in the marshmallows.
@@13lood13athbecause the factory makes both. What's so hard to get?
@@Men_Of_Culture33 trust me marshmallows are not being tampered with I don't know why people fear gmo stuff so much without gmos our population would for sure collapse
@@wxbrainiac mfs will go vegan an vegetarian then b shocked when big companies decide to make a green commitment and start making apple pies w tunas
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Surprisingly no one is worried about corn syrup being #1 in both.
You're getting extra stuff. Sounds like a great value
I really do not give a shit what you say ! I like my GREAT VALUE groceries from Walmart's and I am going to keep buying them ! ❤
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@@jameshunt649 let me know when you recover from you're stroke
My first thought was fish in all of this? Extra protien who cares lmaooo.
As others have clarified, those aren't the ingredients per se, they're warnings about possible cross contamination at various stages of processing, packaging, storage etc. Trace amounts. That's less than the amount of insect parts allowable in peanut butter and just in case someone with a severe allergy has a reaction. When I say severe, some folks can go into anaphylaxis after touching the same table as someone who ate a pb sandwich. Or feel their throat itching when someone has a pb sandwich an a zip loc bag in the desk drawers.
The fish are used for gelatin. That's what makes marshmallows fluffy and plump, and makes syrup thicker than water.
They've usually been taken from pigs, but then it can't be kosher or halal, so they use fish derived gelatin now
Well to bad for those people cause I love me peanut butter toast and peanut butter sammichs I'm not even gonna lie if I'm enjoying my sammich and an asshole starts swelling up I ain't gonna move a god damn bit for them they seen me enjoying my shit and chose to walk near me they new the risk and took it so unless they got an EpiPen handy they just gonna die and I ain't gonna do a thing to help them
@@danvondrasek not usually the case for "may contain traces of", when they use a potential allergen for gelatine, they usually specify "gelatine (from beef/fish/pork)"
A product that is the source of a primary ingredient is NOT a "trace" exposure.
@@lwolfstar7618 often they don’t say what kind of gelatin is used, at least in the us. it makes it a little hard to figure out what my brother can and can’t eat sometimes, since he’s allergic to pork
This would be me. I never go into a store ,a bank, an office or a hospital alone. I don't get in other people's car and if I didn't make it I'm not eating it.
Fun fact: that likely has to do with factory and warehouse practices. If packaged in the same plant as peanut products, you need to put your item as a peanut allergy. It's no mistake that most those warnings are seafood and other common food allergies.
Now the real question is: Why are they packaging/producing them in the same plant?
I assume its made in a factory with fish, and they don't want to get sued if someone has an allergic reaction from accidental cross contamination
It's a USDA thing. If they have multiple different items, say, they're processing shrimp egg rolls, crab rangoon, and fortune cookies all in the same plant, then they would have to write "May contain traces of shrimp and crawfish" on all three items, because there's a 0.00001% chance that somehow the shrimp cross contaminates across whatever boundaries they have set up.
So, the Great Value processing plants are likely one supermassive structure with lots of assembly lines all being operated in closed off rooms from one another. But just in *case* anything goes awry, they are "legally" covered so long as management has done their due diligence and stuff.
It’s the FDA isn’t it?
I thought USDA was the farming/gathering side of it and the FDA was the production and sale
It's not just the US. There is similar laws in the EU. It's supposed to make sure that people with allergies can not get triggered by trace amounts
@@Fetidaf Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deals in its sale directly to consumers, so restaurants and groceries.
US Dept of Agriculture has a lot more oversight than its name suggests, but it deals in the gathering and production of foods.
The bulk processing is exactly the reason for this. That’s how they can afford to sell these “budget” goods
Yeah very similar to how opioids got into Excedrin and they took that off the shelves for a while. Made in the same factory.
I do some work in food regulatory up here in Canada, and the "may contain" section lists other foods that are processed on the same line or in the same factory.
Now if its in the "Contains" section, you have something to really worry about.
True....but blueberry Anchovy flavoring 😂
Thxs
Thank you for the info, I never knew this.
can confirm - as a Canadian you're legit an entire planet from me in Australia, we say "MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF" which means it's not an ingredient, but that the product was processed on the same line.
I'm allergic to nuts and eat food that says "MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF NUTS" on the label all the time, never had a reaction. My allergies are vasodilatory-dependent-response though, so be careful.
Australia doesn't have some secret formula to keep contaminants out, and we copy most of our shit from America to begin with...
If something is consistent from Canada to Australia, you can bet your ass it's consistent. America is the land of the lawsuit after all...
I was a little shocked when i saw cricket flour in the cheetos
Not really surprised, I still remember where I was when I began understanding that Caesar dressing has anchovy paste as an actual ingredient, without knowing its history.
I'd be more concerned with the first ingredient being high fructose corn syrup tbh
"May contain" just means it was made in the same facility
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@@witsendSOS r/ihadastroke
@@witsendSOS It is as rare as winning the lottery... i think this is pretty safe to assume there is no fishes in those products.
@@maxchess6734Just like Quaker recalled their granola bars because of traces of salmonella recently Lol
@@zaccoley There are a few (un)lucky ones that win the lottery...
As someone with a deadly anchovy allergy, these warnings are extremely important. Basically, the same vat that makes your yummy pancake goop also stirs up something with anchovies, likely Worcestershire Sauce. Cross contamination can be deadly, and they can't be 100% certain that the vat got totally clean, so they cover their butts.
If there is any chance of cross-contamination, they are putting it on the label now. The FDA made changes to rules regarding allergen cross-contamination and labeling, so most companies, instead of spending millions to not have to put something on the label by redoing their production lines, just slapped any possible allergen in the production line on the labels and moved on.
The FDA and allergen watch groups were dissatisfied, but it's perfectly within the rules.
Yes. Worcestershire or Caesar dressing is probably processed in the same factory.
its really bad for a gluten allergy, half of the gluten free foods that cost twice as much usually still trace contaminants
So you have a fish allergy?
Thank you! That actually makes sense
It's all fun and games until you read the ingredients on the sugar and it says may contain traces of cocaine LOL
Man I just got off the couch to check to see if my shit had anything weird and all it said was contains milk. Worst 5mins ever hahahaha
“May contain traces” basically means “that was in the vicinity while making this product”
Still weird that they're making syrup in a fish shop
@@Sir_Crumpet21true 😂
I was going to comment that I eat plant based/vegan and so many stuff says May contain eggs or dairy so... You beat me to saying that
@@Sir_Crumpet21bro, factories have TONS of products being produced. They just get made and packed in the same plant. It's genuinely not that deep. We live in the most sanitized time of the world and yall are really worried about traces of stuff in your food. I pray you never see how some of that stuff is made. Just remember, nothing goes to waste during production unless it violates policies. If something is dropped on the ground, it gets packed anyway. You're probably eating shoe bacteria in your porterhouse 😋
@@Sir_Crumpet21other sauces, such as salad dressing have anchovies in them, so for a sauce factory, not very weird
The factory simply produces more than one product and therefore there’s a minor risk of cross-contamination. It’s primarily so that anyone with a severe allergy can know that there could be trace amounts of foods that you wouldn’t normally expect to be in the product. It’s nothing for most of us to worry about and it’s how Walmart is able to deliver lower costs.
Lower costs broke up with Walmart YEARS ago, but nobody seems to have noticed, idk js 🤷🏾♀️
Yes, they do it in case of cross contamination. But what factory makes marshmallows and tilapia? Or Blueberry syrup and anchovies? The marshmallows and the blueberry syrup in the same factory, sure! The anchovies and the tilapia together, absolutely. But what factory makes fish products and sugar products? Please, please find me one. (Speaking as someone with extreme allergies, who needs to know more about some products than is even on the labels).
Baby formula or products with otherwise high doses of omega 3 fats can contain fish oils. Maybe that has something to do with it idk? The factory i work at makes powderbases for babyformula using tuna oil while in a different part of the factory we make powderbases for coffeecreamer, chocolate milk, milk tea's, etc...
@@karenneill9109also some salad dressings might have fish products, I could see syrups and dressings in the same factory.
Yep truth. This said I love Great Value brands.
You realize a lot of brands do this. The likelihood is low, but they package things in the same factory, so they have to cover their butt in case trace amounts of something get through
As someone who had a huge issue with food allergens and whole foods "organic" claims.... allergens can be introduced in ALL areas of a supply chain. Not just the factory, plant, or packaging facility. Just the fact that they store all the food in the back of the same building, plus they don't exactly support their staff the best to expect safety in handling.
That's actually the healthiest thing on the ingredients list!
Fact
Non preserved/dried rotting seafood is always a staple at my house.
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It took me so long to get that joke 🤣
I know this one! If they have something in the same factory (even if it's in a completely different area and shouldn't be able to) it can travel to different parts of the factory. For example if someone spills anchovies on a forklift and that forklift is needed in another part of the building and didn't get cleaned well enough it may transfer a trace amount of anchovies into that other product that can affect someone's fish allergy. The warning is just for the fact that if it does trigger an allergy then they're covered.
Who the heck is processing Tilapia and marshmallows in the same factory?
You would be surprised
using fish gelatin allows a product to be kosher.
@@beefchicken The tilapia flavored marshmallow makers, obviously.
But when someone actually has an allergy they just cant eat like half the foods that have nothing to do with said allergy, instead of companies following better procedures.
Source: I cant have any contamination from peanuts or I can die.
I hate when my eggs is labeled with "may contain eggs"
You ignored the “bioengineered-“
lmaoooo food allergy community are like "y'all don't read the ingredients???"
It's not even just about food allergies; everybody should be doing that! This is super disappointing This is where we've come to in our society.... You know when nuclear families are actually still a thing women were expected to read the ingredients and understand. And they would complain if there were things in there that they didn't like....
People are ignorant today even though they've all this information at their fingertips because they're lazy and blindly trusting. This is why I'm super glad I'm a stay at home wife and mother. I can see where there would have been potential if I was busy with a career and trying to juggle my family that I wouldn't think to do things like read labels.
But because I started to I handled most of my health problems that the doctors couldn't solve... I found out that I have issues with PEGs but most people do, lavender and soy are in many products and they build up in your body if you use them too often and can disrupt your endocrine system.
There are many eco-washing products out there like vinyl and polyurethane for fake leather that are way more harmful to the environment and the consumer. studies have proven these things for a very long time but people want to make money and they get away with it at the people's detriment.
Especially the soft-hearted that anthropomorphize animals.
Not to mention the way that the pharmaceutical industry works. When I had dip my toes in the idea of becoming a pharmacist, and was becoming a pharmacy tech I learned about how the public is off in the first trials of new medications. If the first few ingredients of a medication are the same as the previous they can add in a bunch of toxic chemicals they haven't tested on people yet. This is where the concept of let your doctor know about side effects came from... It's not so that your narcissistic doctor can help you It's so that they can log it in a database and you can be their guinea pig. At least most times the doctors won't even know the first thing about how to help you with that.
I think it's interesting that a lot of the face masks people were wearing were made of microplastics and then they found microplastics in toxic levels and people's blood and lungs after the pandemic. But there was a study about 10 years before the pandemic that already proved that those kinds of masks are likely to do that when used often. That's partly why many surgeons actually wear organic cotton masks and similar.
Not to mention other things like the PEGs involved in the vaccines and medications being handed out.
These things all can cause the symptoms of what they call long COVID. So I find that very interesting and coincidental. Don't you???
@@ari3lz3pp Clearly you have too much free time because you're joining a lot of dots that don't exist.
Also you might wanna actually look up what life was like for housewives in the past, they were not sitting around reading ingredient lists. Most of them had part time jobs too.
As someone with an egg allergy, now that almost everything has egg in it, I have to read it before I even consider buying it bc 9/10 times it’ll have egg 😭
lol, we found the nutter
No concerns about food allergies on my end, but I still read the ingredients and nutrition facts list because I care to know what’s going in my body. It’s crazy to think people don’t normally do this regardless of allergies (especially the nutrition facts).
As someone who has worked in food marketing/labelling/manufacturing and who’s mom’s career was spent in operations thereof: it’s an FDA Allergien requirement and means the facility also processes products with those ingredients and while there should be minimal to no risk of cross contamination between products the warning is required. It’s actually more common than you’d think as it helps keeps prices down since the manufacturing is pay-as-you-go approach to line time for lower production items. (One bottling machine can fill all types of containers after all.) it DOES NOT mean it’s an actual ingredient, only a cross contamination risk. The ingredient list shows what’s actually in your products in order of most prevalent to least with known present allergies bolded at the end. 👍
For the syrup it’s likely the syrup or bottling company also works with fish sauces/juices. Chances are it also processes Walmart’s sauces with anchovies or produces the juices in the anchovies containers.
Ok but please explain why a factory is producing marshmallows and tilapia (or producing something with tilapia) because that baffles me
@@tiffariff I might have an answer, but it's just something I came up with and has no evidence to prove one way or the other. Fish sticks. It's possible that Marshmallows and fish sticks are both an extruded product. Imagine if you have a meat grinder or something like that at home, when you crank the grinder the meat that's in it gets pushed out in little squiggly tubes. Marshmallows and fish sticks I could see being done the same way. Just bigger.
I'm sure that made next to no sense, but I'm driving to work.
Or fish cakes/fish balls or something like that.
@@tiffariff it doesn’t mean there’s a whole tilapia involved. Just some product derrived there of. If it’s non vegan marshmallows they often contain animal based gelatin (animal byproduct from tendons/ligaments). If the factory is using fish based byproducts or making them (ex fish meal) that is derived from tilapia that’s how you get the cross contamination risk of tilapia. It’s more about what equipment the factory has than anything.
(Note fish sticks involve cooking and storing processes you’d never need for marshmallows so you’d never produce them in the same plant.)
It could also be the same bagging equipment
Im more concerned with the "bioengineered" part
Maybe they’re saying that the marshmallows may resemble little tilapias? Hahah 😂
when people realize factories produce multiple types of food at once and they have to put disclaimers…
It's always funny when people think that they've brilliantly caught some kind of gotcha, when it's really just that they themselves have absolutely no understanding of how things work.
Too be fair, the world of artificial flavoring is wild so it's not that bad of a guess to just assume they put weird shit in your cheap food.
Like vanilla flavoring I feel is a great example of how weird things can get
Yeah but... you would expect them to just... get marshmallows from a factory that produces just marshmallows and similar products. You don't see warnings for fish allergen exposure on other brands.
@@daiyadoggo i wouldn’t expect that because ik how factories work, especially off brand factories
@@dustinrausch5008it’s wild! All this knowledge in our pockets now with AI that we can poorly phrase a question to and still get the right answer…but people always default to “conspiracy” anytime they notice something unusual 😂
Not everyone knows this but some marshmellow companies use fish gelatin instead of pig gelatin
People just want to forget that the word “Alchemy” exists and I can’t believe that
If you have food allergies, you're SUPPOSED to read the ingredients on EVERYTHING you eat!
Next time a lady tells me to eat her out I'm going to request a nutrition label.
You should read what you're eating anyway!!!! Oh my God. "Contains a bioengineered food" and tetrasodium phosphate are WAY worse than fish bits in your marshmallows my dude....
Not to mention the endocrine disruptors and phthalates in most things today.... This is why people fall for the eco-friendly BS labels on everything.... They're actually contributing to harming the environment and themselves a lot more by getting lots of these synthetic products thinking they're protecting the anthropomorphized animals.
It's not that hard to figure it out Just put a tiny bit of effort into it. People that don't read food ingredients are the people that take a job without understanding how pharmacology works, or that many doctors happen to be diagnosably narcissistic or psychopathic and aren't there for your health. Aye yi yie!!!
Yep, my husband is deathly allergic to milk. I have to read everything.
I have a friend who has to ask what's in the gelatin in the capsules used to hold his medications. I had no idea that type of allergy is a thing, but he had a bad reaction to some of his meds and it took the doctor age to figure out it wasn't the meds causing it, it was something in the capsules.
@@ImLunaShesZeta everything every TIME since ingredients can change...
You should read labels on ANY brand you buy.
If your allergy is so bad you can die from touching someone who touched a peanut, you damn well better be reading those ingredients of everything.
These large companies have packing machines that all load the same products, but sometimes that is enough to trigger someone's allergies.
I have seafood allergies that are potentially fatal but I am not rereading labels because I always buy the same brands for everything but I will say that I recently saw this and looked at a great value label and saw this and was shocked because I have been using the same sauce for years. They must have done it in recent years or something because anything with seafood is kept out of my house.
Even without allergies, most mass produced food is basically indigestible poison
*shouldn't
@@pipermeh3350 It's just so you can't sue if a worker accidentally cross contaminated them. Likely it won't be, but in a rare case someone may be going to the ER and then you can't sue walmart because they said, I told you so!
“Contains a bioengineered food ingredient” umm what?!🤣
It took me 30 years to find out that Mrs. Butterworth and Aunt Jemima don’t make maple syrup. It’s all high fructose corn syrup
Wait until you find out that Great Value products are packaged by plants that also package other things. They are legally required to list "may contain" for anything else packaged in that facility, even if it is in a completely different area. I used to run a line packaging Great Value cooking oil, the labels had to read "may contain peanuts" when it was only handled on completely the other side of the facility.
I'll pass on that. I mean, like when you go to the bakery in your local grocery, and it says, "may contain soy" because why? How do I know that's a "may contain because soy is used in the same building, but we don't intend for it to be there, so it's probably not," or "may contain oil because we might use soy oil, or soy in the ingredients, but we may not, because we are using oil, and protein powder, and can use that in a soy version if we have extra we need to use?"
So these days, I just don't use any pre-made food. I make everything myself. This way, I know exactly what's going into my body. I know that's not for most people. Most people eat for pleasure, and like convenience. Both of those are low on my priorities for food. Health, vitality and energy are #1, #2 and #3 on that list.
This is true even if your facility is Allergen free in some case, per my comment from work in an M&M Mars factory. These people don't understand jack and want to make everything a problem, smh.
@@leroyrussell8766you don't know what's you're putting into your body unless you're hurting or farming because even the "fresh meat" is processed and packaged in a random facility which are also processing and packaging other things so there's always risk of cross contamination
🤦🏻♂️ some people know nothing about laws and cross contamination…. Am I the only one annoyed by this guys voice?
@@blumind_nft3264 I buy my meat live from a guy nearby. I then accompany the live animal to the butcher, where I watch it being butchered. 100% grass fed/finished.
I've taken care of my health in recent years. All of my health problems are gone. Literally even used to have severely swollen feet and ankles. Not anymore. What you put in your mouth is very important.
My biggest concern is with this labeling everything as having something because a trace amount might float through the air and get in the food. Let me ask you this, does your peanut butter list rat hair as an ingredient? No? Why not? There could be rat hair in the peanut butter. I once read that the FDA even allows up to 3 of them in a jar of peanut butter.
But why put Soy on every package at the bakery in your store, if it's just the possibility? Is it because many people are now avoiding soy, so this is an attempt to desensitize them? If Soy isn't in the ingredients, and the facility is using proper standards to control cross contamination, there isn't a good reason to put that on the ingredients.
Bro I was cooking an omelet watching this and my egg cartons said “may contain traces of plutonium”
What a time to be alive 💀
Nah bro got the radioactive chicken eggs 😂
Ok what's that😅
@@reefjack9731 the time it took you to ask that question you could have googled it yourself
That's not because plutonium is used in food production, that's because plutonium from nuclear testing may have gotten into the environment.
Its probably not, but you can thank nuclear testing for that warning.
Its all fun and games until my dear fast food secrets club founder realizes marshmallows are a meat product.
Sometimes a factory has two separate production lines and a cleaner named Doug. Doug is a Jason among the Matts and Steves, but still very much a Doug.
anchovies are in ceasar salad dressing and worcestershire sauce. This means the blueberry syrup plant shares the same building or equipment as the other two previously mentioned products. They have to wash and sanitize the machines when switching over to a different product, but for liability they have to list any possible cross contamination ingredients.
No Caesar dont. I have a bottle of classic caesar. It dont.
@@thelittleguy9132 it should be 💀
@Ainsley Jordan not craft. I had a bottle in front of me at the time I read this so I picked it up and looked. Was not listed
@@thelittleguy9132it's a misunderstanding. Real Caesar salads contain Worcestershire sauce and anchovies. Caesar dressings are just imitations of the original flavors, with some still containing the ingredients. So an authentic Caesar dressing contains anchovies, but those are a bit rare now
This makes so much sense, actually.
The pause between "anchovies" and "in my blueberry syrup," made it way funnier than it should be
It's like the joke from asdf movie, "who parked their car...... on my sandwich"
Comic timing is an underappreciated art.
That is pretty interesting because I wonder how they are using these items to substitute other items
Walmarts cheapest sliced cheese in kansas says "made with interesTERIFIED soybean oil"
Back in college a friend worked in a food factory. One day there was some kind of mix up and some cross contamination happened so that the Swedish meatball frozen meals contain trace amounts of the wrong meat. It wasn't on the label so all those pallets of frozen meals couldn't be sold. But workers could take as many as they wanted home so that it didn't go to waste. I ate a lot of free Swedish meatballs that winter. Had those boxes had labels like this they would have been able to still sell them. This is just a way to cover their ass.
And if this sort of thing keeps you up at night, under no circumstances to you want to look up the FDA allowable limits on bug parts that can be found in your processed food.
forget the bug parts, dont read how much human DNA is allowed to be in there
And this is why I only eat kosher or halal meat
rat poop too
They allow a certain percentage of arsenic in apple juice, apparently, too. I haven't bought apple juice at all since finding that out.
@@deadsetondreams1988 You're being very silly. The allowable amount is not remotely close to harmful even for babies.
Its also simply not possible to make it without any arsenic since it literally comes from the fruit. They naturally accumulate some arsenic and you'll get a bigger dose of it from an apple. Unless you use a water that contains arsenic to reconstitute it.
Arsenic is naturally occuring you're going to have some degree of exposure to it regardless of what you do but fruit juice isn't even high on that list.
"In my blueberry syrup?" Has the same vibe as "In front of my salad?" & "Worms? In my PC?"
Centipedes?
Its more likely than youd think!@@HalIucinations
The other thing is, it isn't the cheapest on the shelf anymore.
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That's actually a really clean ingredient list for a bargain brand. But really what it is, is that big brands (the big 6) of food and house hold products have their branch off brands(smaller brands like Windex from p&g etc) that have to pay for a "shelving fee" which dictates where in the stores food is displayed. As if their product is renting shelf space. Think like $100,000 for Kellogg's poptarts to be eye level instead of no name on the bottom shelf which paid $50,000. Stores like Walmart will give discounts to companies to display products in better places for cheaper, if they're rebranded as Walmart's great value brand. Costco does it for grey goose when they use the Kirkland brand label. This is also what affects retail prices at various for the same product. So this change in labelling means that one of those companies that does the great value labelling has a facility that makes products with all those allergens in the same building. Or it could be that labelling requirements in his area became more stringent as they are federally regulated. Basically that label just means "we make a ton of products that contain these allergens. At some point they may cross contaminate and we're putting this warning to make sure you can't sue us if you have an allergic reaction"
The tilapia one may be due to the use of a material called isinglass which is occasionally used in gelatinous products and made from fish innards
or pig hoof
Oh cool
Oh that's interesting, didn't know that! Thanks!
Also anchovies for the coloring of the blueberry syrup (possibly) but lots of things can be explained
Or gelatin from fish
I think the bigger concern with these products should be that corn syrup is the primary ingredient in all of them.
Oh yeah I saw the anchovies warning on a box of GV poptarts once lmfao
The reason that these foods could have traces of other foods is because they were used in the same packaging equipment. It ran through the same mixer. They wash the mixer and then they run the next product but there's always possibility of residue from the previous batch
You should check the ingredients on everything you purchase, no matter where you purchase it from.
YES
Always have always will. Don't know why more people don't 🤷♀️
@@liv1522 exactlyyy😇
Seriously people are either dumb or blind. Either way people are Definitely becoming dumber 😂
right
"May contain notes from desparate Chinese slave labor."
".....that's fish" 😂😂😂
“ may contain a hint of fentanyl”
LOL
Good 😏
That's only if it comes from China
Your local water district.
This should be a CSI episode 😂