re: Have you ever been mislead by food packaging?

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I was snookered recently by Seagram's ginger ale. It has no obvious marking on the label or packaging to indicate a sugar substitute is used....only after drinking one & having a migrane did I learn that it's full of sucralose. I wish that labeling requirements forced every fake-sugar-containing product to be prominently labeled.

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Did you grab the diet one perhaps?

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Did you grab the diet one perhaps?

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Nope. It's not marked as diet anywhere on the cardboard case or the individual cans. Turns out that Seagram's sneakily changed the formula and didn't alter the package branding...you only know by the bitter taste (or for me, the blinding headache) or the tiny fine print on the can. Here's an article about it: LINK

I first encountered the switcheroo when I ordered a ginger ale while flying, got a a Seagram's, and could barely make it out of baggage claim due to the headache. I lost the first two days of an international vacation to the migrane/aftermath. All could have been avoided if the damn thing was branded as "diet" or "alternatively sweetened".