Kiwi sweets with real kiwi in them can be called exactly that. Of course. Even when there is a minimum amount in them - because the consumer reads the label on the bag. Admittedly it must contain real flavouring (95% or more natural kiwi flavour) but what if the kiwi sweet contains artificial kiwi flavouring? Then kiwi should not feature on the packaging. What you then get is a “kiwi look & feel": a lot of green, a lot of palm trees and maybe even some black seeds.
More kiwi: the television commercial for Coolbest Raw Juice shows images of Maoris and kiwis with the text: “Here in New Zealand we've found this amazing kiwi". A viewer found this misleading because the original kiwi comes from China and not from New Zealand. Luckily the Advertising Code Committee found that the viewer understands that Coolbest Raw Juice is made from the best and tastiest kiwis grown in New Zealand.
A picture of a kiwi does not say it all; seek and thou shalt hopefully find the right information, on the label for example. It remains a puzzle however: do I taste real fruit, natural flavouring or artificial flavouring and aromas?
Ebba Hoogenraad
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Kiwi sweets with real kiwi in them can be called exactly that. Of course. Even when there is a minimum amount in them - because the consumer reads the label on the bag. Admittedly it must contain real flavouring (95% or more natural kiwi flavour) but what if the kiwi sweet contains artificial kiwi flavouring? Then kiwi should not feature on the packaging. What you then get is a “kiwi look & feel": a lot of green, a lot of palm trees and maybe even some black seeds.
More kiwi: the television commercial for Coolbest Raw Juice shows images of Maoris and kiwis with the text: “Here in New Zealand we've found this amazing kiwi". A viewer found this misleading because the original kiwi comes from China and not from New Zealand. Luckily the Advertising Code Committee found that the viewer understands that Coolbest Raw Juice is made from the best and tastiest kiwis grown in New Zealand.
A picture of a kiwi does not say it all; seek and thou shalt hopefully find the right information, on the label for example. It remains a puzzle however: do I taste real fruit, natural flavouring or artificial flavouring and aromas?
Ebba Hoogenraad