Really it adverts as healthy? Looking the package/bottle nothing to me screams out healthy. Ok maybe the words skim milk say a little healthy but does it day low-fat or part of a balanced breakfast.

Why did she not read the label (like any good mother should) before she bought the item.

Also anything that looks too good to be true usually is. True a light beer has less alcohol but it still has alcohol meaning it is not safer. Or that a chocolate bran muffin has bran but it still has chocolate that will likely have sugar. Here is a clue if kids love some sort of food good chance it has something in it that is sugary or sweet.

Sigh, probably just a grab for money or change.

I don't know what's scarier: the idiots in the post below that want to censor Google, or idiots like this woman who are too stupid to read a food label or say no to their oh-so-precious little ones.

The plaintiff is obviously lying and should have her children taken from her in any case.

Never mind the fact that she's making unsupportable statements about the effects of both sugar and fat in her suit.

Just another garden variety mundane that shouldn't have been allowed to reproduce.

I hate lawsuits like this, but it may have merit depending on what the ads for Nutella actually say. (I can't answer that for myself; either I've never seen a Nutella ad or wasn't paying attention when I did.)

Nutella's advertising. In particular, "Ferrero recommends that Nutella be used to spread on white high fibre bread, and not eaten by itself to be part of a healthy breakfast".

This woman is probably referring to their TV adverts that say Nutella is part of a health breakfast. As a toast spread, it is probably not significantly different from butter and jam.

Solution: loser pays, and disbarment for lawyers who file too many frivolous lawsuits.

the t.v. ads do say it can be part of a well-balanced breakfast with milk and fruit/oatmeal some shit like that-can't remember right now. Basically like any commercial for sugary cereal.

Didn't we have a similar conversation about this a couple of months back, with the lady suing McDonalds over Happy Meals, only to find out that the plaintiff was a food activist of some kind, working with the CSPI? The main difference in this case seems to be that the plaintiff doesn't appear to be linked with anybody in the food activist world. Not that I could find, anyway.

The goddess of wisdom called. She'd like her name back.

Preach it, Alistair Young! And really, Nutella is gross. The taste, the look, the smell, the texture.

"P.S. French toast isn't healthy, either, but...hey...who do you sue?"

France, obviously. For their toast and their fries. Both of which I'm fond.

Heh, I noticed the pseudo-healthy advertising, too, and laughed at the bullshittedness of it. "A glass of milk in every jar!" Yeah... but you have to eat the jar of Nutella to get it.

Nutella is not gross, it is the food of the gods.

I adore Nutella. And it's really fantastic for parents needing to put weight on their kids, that and peanut butter.

Can we sue HER for daring to breed and pass her stupidity on?

Sheesh, do people need to be led by the hand (or the nose) for EVERYTHING, even Nutella? People need to learn to read labels and take charge of their own lives instead of expecting the entire world to be their Mommy (or Daddy). Or maybe someone's just hoping to get a payday from a frivolous lawsuit. (Get in line, folks! :-))

I remember seeing a commercial for Nutella not long ago, and I thought it was odd that they were implying that it was healthy. But commercials were never supposed to be nutritional guides. Have you seen the ads for corn syrup? ("Don't worry. It's made from CORN!") Or the idea that Trix, Lucky Charms and Cocoa Puffs are good for kids because they have fiber? Naturally they neglect to mention what food group marshmallows fall under.

I just mentioned the lawsuit to my hubby, who replied, "She didn't know Nutella is like candy? All you have to do is taste it. It's totally delicious, by the way! But it isn't even remotely healthy."

Bloomberg found another target? New York City's budget is balanced and the streets are paved!

The complaint (written by a moron): "Nutella . . . contains 70% saturated fat and processed sugar by weight."

So does peanut butter.

I heard of and had Nutella back in the late '90's courtesy of the fan base of Highlander: The Series. You had to know the context to get the joke.

But I have enjoyed it on and off over the years. I never thought it was good for me. But I enjoyed the taste.

A honey and Nutella sandwich is a total bomb. I know I'm going to put my blood sugar through the roof. I also like PB & honey is just as good.

I would now like to carve out an exception to the honorable social rule against hitting women, said exception targeting litigious moron-moms such as this woman. If there are any objections from the female participants on this board, I shall reconsider.

I'm getting sick of these people!

"Nutella has fat in it, even though it has sugar, so like peanut butter or a doughnut, it has a potential to keep a kid from going instantly hungry."

Disagree with the donut thing. Two Krispy Kreme donuts have 400 calories and 44 grams of carbs, compared to 110 calories and 20 carbs in a bowl of cheerios. So even if the donuts keep you full longer (which I doubt), you're still getting twice as many carbs in the onset. The donuts also have a combined 20 grams of sugar, as compared to only one gram of sugar in Cheerios, meaning they're more likely to produce a sugar high and subsequent crash. And the type of parent who lets their kids eat donuts for breakfast every morning is probably also the type to let them have soda, chips, fries, oreos, all that crap on a regular basis, as opposed to the conscientious parent who buys Cheerios and also fixes her kids turkey sandwiches for lunch and home cooked dinners with meat and vegetables.

Peanut butter, on the other hand, is great as long as you get the natural no-sugar added kind. I wouldn't exactly forbid my kids from eating Skippy, but I'd give them natural until they were old enough to tell the difference and by that point hopefully they'd have developed enough of a taste for it that they'd think the processed stuff tastes like crap (I do).

I LOVE Nutella and banana crepes. They are heavenly.....

The woman bringing the suit is ridiculous. Unfortunately, intelligence and common sense are not prerequisites for having children.

Ironically, today is World Nutella Day:
http://www.nutelladay.com/

Amy,

don't mention french toast or french-bashing will resume!!!!

on another note, why she is not suing macdonald, coca-cola, bacon... or even peanut butter, which i am not sure about its content in term of fat and carb.

Seems to me a good way to make money in the court. Damm I should have thought about it!

@N: Unfortunately, intelligence and common sense are not prerequisites for having children.
Well, there are many wishing adopters that would agree with you (hetero and gay)

Courts can already award and even fine people for frivolous lawsuits. And sometimes do award court costs and "reasonable" attorney fees (making the loser pay) (quotes because the court pretty much makes up a number). It the don't do it often enough - especially the frivolous lawsuit.

Cheerios are high in carbs, yet the don't make me instantly hungry like many donuts - some donuts are pretty filling though.

I just remembered a girl I knew growing up that was allowed to drink Coke for breakfast, lunch and dinner because it had no fat. Oddly, her son was a genius - I mean really, tested and proved.

Some one mentioned marhmellows. When I was very young (like 4 or 5) someone convinced me that marhsmellows were the brown part of cattail plant. Just a different type - like the difference between brown and white bread. For a long time I thought that was true and marshmellows were this vegetable.

Those expanded nutrition labels did what, exactly? I think it's sad that the government wasted time on that. People still don't read labels, as Amy pointed out in a past article when she mentioned the expanded nutrition info on fast food menus. People either didn't read them or didn't care that they were consuming two days' worth of calories in one burger at LUNCH hour. How many of those people will sue the fast food place when they no longer fit through the door of it? I wish I had become a judge sometimes. I could see myself getting really Judge Judy-ish with some of these whining morons.

French toast is neither french nor toast.

Her lawyer's name is Marron. French for chestnut. I find that funny.

I drank Red Bull, and contrary to what was advertised, I did't get a pair of wings. Time to sue...

@Jessica - even worse, for those of us who used to read the labels, we can't any more without taking out our glasses.

@Snoopy - that's why the ads say Red Bull gies you "wiiings". Nobody can complain because "wiiings" don't exist.

France, obviously. For their toast and their fries. Both of which I'm fond.

Neither french fries nor french toast is actually French.

Pommes frites were invented in what is now Belgium.

And bread dipped in an egg/milk batter was mentioned in a 4th or 5th century collection of Roman recipes.

If you are too stupid to read the label and realize it is not a health food, you are too stupid to breed.

Someone please take her kids away before she sues Nabisco for making cookies.

Good God.

I saw a jar of Nutella in my kitchen the other day and it proclaimed that each serving contained hazelnuts and skimmed milk. Of course the ingredients show that it also contains a load of sugar and seed ("vegetable") oil. Yes it's bad, just as much so as all the other junk food adverts (breakfast cereal etc.) and yes, many people do fall for it.

It's a shame that so many foods are misleadingly advertised as being healthy rather than as what they are - an enjoyable treat.

Nutella does taste nasty IMO thanks to all that seed oil. If it was made with, say, butter, it would taste awesome, and be healthier (relatively speaking of course; it's still full of sugar).

I remember being devastated when I found that Whoopie Pies were filled with lard. I'd always eaten someone's mom's homemade,but finally bought one. I couldn't believe it when I read the ingredients. It was like finding out the real thing about Santa Claus.
EVERYTHING is healthy according to ads---- or even better,natural! As someone said manure and syphilis are natural too.

You just made my day. Lard used to be essential for great pie crusts.

"French toast isn't healthy"?

You mean it's sick? Or do you mean it's not "healthful"? Perhaps before criticizing people as idiots, the bloggatrix should learn English more good.