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The "Natural Flavors" ingredient in the U.S.
Just because something claims to have natural flavoring for strawberry, doesn't mean it actually comes from strawberries.
Something "vanilla" flavored may actually come from chemically processed wood pulp, or even the anal castor sacs of a beaver.
I believe wood pulp but aren't beaver anus glands expensive?
"Natural", because there's no legal definition of it (at least, from my research in American law).
These are not blatant lies in Australia. There are new AUS/NZ regulations dictating flushable wipes must be made of very easy to disperse paper and not plastic like in other countries. Plastic "flushable" wipes are banned.
BEST VALUE gem bundle in any freemium game.
100% recyclable!
Like, sure in theory. But if the facilities dont exist its useless. Most things are recyclable in theory.
the most obvious one AI, totally not a even close at all, its just advanced wolfram alpha. or glass saying its "military grade, unbreakable" in this case of screen for phones, and for containers(like coffee), more than not its made with thinnest material to cut corners.
another fun one is pyrex, pyrex lowercase uses a cheaper weaker glass laminated glass, while the og uses borosilicate(if you are buying the large dishes), some of the lunch box types are made with borosilicate. PYREX is no longer sold in the US, but mostly in the EU and maybe canada. however there is other borosilicate containers out there with varying durability.
the "eco-friendly companies" telling you to buy thier products for carbon footprint reduction type of marketing, its largest funded by oil and gas to avoid reducing thier emissions.
nHap toothpaste, questionable effects, as mos the positive effect seemed to be related to the added whitening/abrasive adjacents more than normal toothpaste.
We made zero or minimal profit this year so our taxable income is zero
Organic
IIRC there is a legally defined set of criteria to call foodstuffs organic. It does mean something, but if has nothing to do with chemistry's definition of organic.