I think even worse than this is the disconnect between a product name and the actual composition of the product.

Its most rampant with juices, where every juice is actually just apple juice (from concentrate, so mostly water anyway) with a splash of [fruit] juice thrown in (also from concentrate, so also mostly water). Maybe if you are lucky you'll catch an apple shown on the front label behind the huge passion fruit or whatever.

This even extends to clothing, where stuff like "Wool Sweater" is 5% wool 15% cotton and 80% polyester.

It should be a law that the primary ingredient of a product being the leading noun in the name of the product.

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card_zero 9 hours ago | parent [-]

But lots of things are mostly water. Fresh fruit juice, wine, meat, humans. They're just not made by adding water. Beer is though. I don't think it should be labelled "water".

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WarmWash 9 hours ago | parent [-]

"From concentrate" pretty much means all the water was taken out, and then they decided how much to put back in. It also allows them to make incredibly sugary drinks while also advertising "No added sugar".

I suppose to be fair, whole pressed juices are incredibly expensive. But I think they should be forced to be more upfront about what these "juices" actually are - mostly apple juice powder with a few other fruit powders sprinkled in and then mixed with water to the desired sweetness level.

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card_zero 8 hours ago | parent [-]

The wool thing is mysterious, because I keep hearing about sheep farmers losing money on shearing sheep because the raw wool price is too low, and then I went round a fabric shop the other day and it was all polyester, I don't get why.

	▲	dylan604 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Polyester can be made 24/7 365 while wool comes in batches. Also, regardless of how low wool prices are, it will be more expensive than polyester components as the sheep require being fed and what not. Maybe polyester prices are affected by Hormuz closing????
	▲	killingtime74 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There's many grades of wool and the coarse ones really are very cheap. So cheap as to be used for carpet in government schools (in NZ/Australia).