Guess who is in NYC. Me. Guess who found a place that sells mini pies! Me. I may or may have not tried the chocolate mini pie. I am a big fan of desserts — usually chocolate or cheesecake and rarely Nutella. Why do I mention Nutella? Nutella is made by Ferrero, an italian confectionary group and they were on the receiving end of a class action lawsuit by a woman who sued them after discovering that nutella chocolate spread had more calories than jam or syrup. Is it just me or isn’t that obvious? Strawberry jam or Nutella? Oh definitely Nutella since I am trying to keep my girlish figure. No. Nutella is CHOCOLATE. How someone would think that Nutella would be the obvious lower calorie choice makes no sense to me. The first article I read about this case didn’t have too much detail so I had to investigate further.

Apparently Nutella was advertising that their product was somewhat healthy so the lawsuit was about deceiving the public since the product actually has as many calories as a candy bar (which, you can easily read on the label).  They settled for 3.5 million which means roughly $4 – $20 to any person that had the product during the time in which the lawsuit was alleged.

Sigh. This is a case where I get that it is frustrating to feel like you are eating something you were told was healthy but then you find out it isn’t….but a lawsuit is one step too far. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to perhaps question how healthy a chocolate spread could actually be. It is pretty self-explanatory. BUT, what if you saw this commercial?

http://youtu.be/ThIrw_LpuRA (I also posted it in its own separate post below)

Now suddenly this case gets interesting.  Even after watching this, I still thought — seriously? Nutella as a healthy breakfast for kids? Even when I look at products that “seem” healthy or are advertised as such, I can always look at the ingredients to really get a sense of things. I champion the idea that it would be fantastic if all advertising was created to give the honest truth to the consuming public but we all know there are tricks to the trade that entice us to buy. It is one thing if it was called carrot delight and you found out it was super unhealthy but Nutella is used in desserts and doesn’t lend itself to some type of healthy concept. Moral to the story is don’t feed your kids Nutella for breakfast and if you want to have chocolate cake, just have it and call it a day.