Nutrition Label Errors on Cereal

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Created on 01, August, 2011

A nutritionist/blogger is gifted 3 products by a manufacturer for a review and misses a major nutrition label error. 

The cereal product reviewed by the nutritionist/blogger showed the data for vitamin C (not present in milk or the cereal, but showing as 15% of DV) flipped with that for calcium (showing as 0) in the Nutrition Facts label's "with milk" column. Anyone with a nutrition or labeling background should have noticed this. Moral: Beware blogs about food products that purport to critique anything when free food has been received (of course, there also can be errors in blogs where free product hasn’t been received....).