Label Contradiction

[MurrayM]

I found this on the label for Western Family 'Roasted Peanuts with Honey';

"INGREDIENTS: peanuts, sugar, canola oil, honey, modified potato starch, salt, xanthum gum.

ALLERGENS: contains peanuts, wheat. May contain traces of other nuts/seeds"

What the? Where is the wheat product in the ingredients? I'll send them an e-mail and find out if they're giving a warning for possible cross contamination. Kind of makes you wonder how many products actually contain wheat, doesn't it?

Murray

[tarnalberry]

Yep. Gotta wonder. I'm curious what they'll say.

[blueeyedmanda]

I am stumped too...Let us know when you hear back. I am very curious.

[MurrayM]

I'll pass on their answer. It'll probably take about five days or so.

Murray

[lorka150]

maybe the 'modified'?

[Nantzie]

I'd guess that it's a typo. It's got to happen every once in a while. Either something didn't get listed in the ingredients, or the allergen info is wrong.

Nancy

[ravenwoodglass]

Or they may use it on the lines or at some point in the processing. I would thank this company and pass on the product.

[hathor]

I'm curious too. I'm remembering someone on this forum once mentioning that sometimes conveyor belts have flour or a wheat starch on them to keep things from clumping together and sticking. I wonder if this is a way that they would know a product would contain wheat and yet it isn't a true "ingredient?"

I look forward to hearing the answer.

[MurrayM]

The answer is...

A representative of Save-On-Foods phoned today while I was at work. My wife explained our concern about the ambiguous labeling, and the representative agreed that the label is wrong. It should have said, "May contain wheat", as the processing plant that produced the peanuts also makes products with wheat in them.

Pretty good of them to call, and cudo's to them for trying to warn us about the possibility of wheat in a product in the first place.

Murray