Comments on: Latest court ruling: Pringles are potato chips (sort of)

By: Denis McKeown

Denis McKeown — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:25:16 +0000

Nice to see such care about food, but what about cigarettes? I recently lerned that there are some 6,000 chemicals in a gigarette, and (when burned) some 9,000 chemicals present in residual smoke. A Marijuana cigarette contains paper and pot! What is more dagerous, pray tell??

By: RedMoul

RedMoul — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:59:57 +0000

I so understand, in last paragraph just whole salt and is stated

By: PB

PB — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:05:00 +0000

The “light” Pringles contain at least one artificial ingredient: Olestra. Eww…

By: RichardOn

RichardOn — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:48:04 +0000

Interesting site, but much advertisments on him. Shall read as subscription, rss.

By: sid

sid — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:41:56 +0000

In USA when Pringles came on the market, the company fought against Pringles being called “artificial” potato chips, arguing that they are indeed potato chips, despite not being made directly from a potato. So, really, they can’t have it both ways, despite their sleazy corporate legal team attempts.

They are so bad! In taste I mean.

By: Anthro

Anthro — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:06:08 +0000

Actually, I am a bit disappointed to see that something with less than 50% potato can be called potato-anything? I am, at the same time, glad to see any junk food be subject to a extra tax!

Thank you Gina for the ingredients lists, the U.S. one being the most shocking, although I wonder if this is because the U.S. labeling has to use the chemical name of ingredients and (it looks like) the U.K. uses the “common names”? I’m sure Marion knows the answer to this.

By: Gina Munsey

Gina Munsey — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:02:48 +0000

It is interesting to note that the US and the UK versions of Pringles contain different ingredients. Overall, the British versions seem to contain fewer ingredients than the American ones.

Of course, the “no artificial ingredients, no preservatives” adage only applies to the Original variety, not the many flavored options.
Both the the (US) Cheddar Cheese Pringles and the (UK) Cheesy Cheese Pringles, for instance, contain MSG and artificial flavor.

::(US) Cheddar Cheese Pringles::
DRIED POTATOES, VEGETABLE OIL (CONTAINS ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: CORN OIL, COTTONSEED OIL, SOYBEAN OIL, AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL), RICE FLOUR, WHEAT STARCH AND MALTODEXTRIN. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), PARMESAN CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SALT, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, WHEY, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, SUGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS, ONION POWDER, DEXTROSE, BUTTERMILK, LACTOSE, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID, NONFAT MILK, LACTIC ACID, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, YELLOW 5 LAKE, TURMERIC EXTRACT (COLOR), YELLOW 6, SOYBEAN LECITHIN, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR AND YELLOW 5.

::UK Cheesy Cheese Pringles::
Dehydrated potatoes, vegetable oil, vegetable fatcorn flour, cheese flavour(cheese powder, whey powder, flavour enhancer:monosodium glutamate, flavourings, buttermilk powder, onion powder, sugar, Food acid: lactic acid, yeast extract), wheat starch, maltodextrin, emulsifier: E471, salt, rice flour, dextrose.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:42:52 +0000

The “light” Pringles contain at least one artificial ingredient: Olestra. Eww…