[dpeck]

Along with skimpflation in sizes, keep a look out for it in things like legally protected terms. For instance ice cream has to have a certain level of milk fat to be legally called “ice cream”, if they aren’t it’ll be called something like “frozen dairy dessert”.

[jabbany]

Huh.. that must explain why I've been seeing a lot of brands switching to the term "frozen yogurt" for what is essentially cheap "ice cream" (=> tastes nothing like actual frozen yogurt...).

> Unlike yogurt, frozen yogurt is not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (wikipedia)

[atdrummond]

Wonder if one could get away with calling a Yogurt-like product Yogurt* and be under the nonexistent regulatory set.

*Formerly Frozen

[bombcar]

The apple juice aisle used to be mostly apple juices, now they’re almost all juice cocktails.

[Gigachad]

You can still buy real juice at pretty much any supermarket. It's just sold in the fridge section at 3x the price compared to those 4L jugs of sugar water.

[feet]

Aren't most "juices" mostly just apple juice because apples are cheaper to produce? They flavor it with other fruit juices or extracts

[vidanay]

White grape juice is typically the base juice stock in my experience.

[bombcar]

Apparently around here they cut it with grape or cranberry juice.

[Tao3300]

I'm sure with some brands this is what you say it is, but I know for some of the good ones it's more like: yes, the ice cream was at 10% milkfat, but the total percentage in the packaged product is dragged down because it has chocolate chips and cookie dough and whatnot mixed in.

[dpeck]

Not sure if that’s the case. But maybe? I think I remember seeing some well known brands of plain vanilla go back and forth on the labeling over the years.