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by treis 9 days ago
All fresh food does not have to disclose ingredients
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I'm picturing a banana with a label on it that says:

Ingredients: banana Servings: 1 Serving Size: 1 banana

An amusing thought but I mean the potato salad deli stuff. Anything prepared on site (in a store or restaurant) doesn't need to disclose ingredients. There's no special exception for bread.
> There's no special exception for bread.

Personally, I prefer my bread to not have plastic labels on it. Besides on the bread itself, where would you even put such a label? The sleve-bags for bread are used for more than just one specific bread, so can't put them there either...

Sounds dumb, but then also if something unexpectedly had a list of 20 ingredients you might reconsider buying it
Yes! They should provide a list of all chemicals used to grow it, both in spray and in soil and in wash.

So you get for a banana:

Ingredients: banana, <a list of chemicals you cannot pronounce longer than the fist two chapters of the Bible>