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Where are the Blueberries?

Last week, we asked “Where’s the beef” in Taco Bell’s beef tacos. This week, the question is “Where are the blueberries?”

The folks at Food Investigations made a video looking at a bunch of so-called blueberry products that actually have no blueberries in them.

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5 thoughts on “Where are the Blueberries?”

  1. Thanks, fun video. I’m sure some people could be mislead by the packaging, but I find it hard to believe they’d fool anyone who has ever tasted an actual blueberry into thinking they’re eating one. The muffin mix contains little blue chemical pellets that when melted into cake batter, closely approximate the appearance of cooked blueberries. Clever feat of science, but fooling people, … hmmm, maybe, they are pretty yummy 🙂 Go science!

  2. The point is well taken in the video, and it’s nice to see that at least two products were shown that actually had real blueberries in them. BTW, I love products that have chocolate chips in them – e.g. Eggos Waffles. Now I wonder if these are real chocolate chips – now I have to read the ingredients to see if food coloring are present too!

  3. Oh noes! Does this mean my crunchberries are fake too?

    Edgar replies: No, silly… they come from a genuine crunchberry bush!

  4. About a month ago, I tried baking a carrot cake mix only to find, in trying to break up the lumps with a spoon, the orange-y carrot bits began dissolving into the mix and which vanished altogether by the time most of the lumps were gone. Instructions specify an electric beater for X minutes and the carrot bits would probably have survived had I used one. The blueberry bits in their blueberry muffin mix ought to behave similarly.

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