Bagel Bites Three Cheese Pizza Snacks!
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing products as being made with mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce when they’re not
Bagel Bites Pizza
Case Name (Date)
Lemke et al. v. Kraft Heinz Food Co.
21-cv-278, W.D. Wis.
(April 2021)
Product/Service
Bagel Bites Pizza Snacks
Allegations
Falsely marketing snacks as made with mozzarella cheese when the ingredients list reveals that they contain a cheese blend of part-skim mozzarella cheese and food starch
Misleadingly using the National Milk Producers Federation’s (NMPF’s) “REAL” dairy seal and adding the phrase “made with real cheese” to the seal when use of the seal is not authorized because the product does not contain real cheese
Falsely marketing snacks as made with tomato sauce when the ingredients list shows that the product contains non-tomato extenders and thickeners (cornstarch and methylcellulose)
Status
Class-Action Tracker
Bagel Bites Pizza Snacks
Allegations: Falsely marketing that Bagel Bites are made with mozzarella cheese when they actually contain a cheese blend
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