
Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing that the flavor in products comes from being smoked over a fire of wood chips
Henderson et al. v. Blue Diamond Growers
23-cv-289, M.D. Fla.
(May 2023)
Blue Diamond Habanero BBQ Almonds
Misleadingly marketing that one of the characterizing flavors in products comes from habanero chili peppers when they contain a relatively small amount of the ingredient
Failing to adequately disclose that products contain an artificial ingredient (malic acid) to simulate, resemble, and reinforce the taste of habanero chili peppers
Voluntarily dismissed When a complaint is dismissed with prejudice, it cannot be refiled. as to the named plaintiff’s claims and When a complaint is dismissed without prejudice, an amended version of the complaint can be refiled. as to the class members’ claims
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing that the flavor in products comes from being smoked over a fire of wood chips
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing products as “Smokehouse Almonds”
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing products as “smokehouse”
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing products as “smokehouse”
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing yogurt as “vanilla with other natural flavors” when the ingredients list shows that the product contains more “Natural Flavors” than vanilla extract
Allegations: Misleadingly marketing products as containing vanilla when the ingredient list does not include vanilla but rather discloses that the products contain unspecified “Natural Flavor”
TINA.org is currently tracking 70 class actions challenging claims that a variety of foods and beverages are truly vanilla.
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