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Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know they were made out of potatoes | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2025/10/10/pepsico-lays-rebrand-consumers-didnt-know-made-of-potatoes/Open link View original on lemmy.ca

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Shadowedcross

sh.itjust.works

What did they think they were made of then?

slothrop reply

lemmy.ca

Asking the real questions.

Phil_in_here reply

lemmy.ca

Chips, duh

Cypher

lemmy.world

MimicJar reply

lemmy.world

No they know, the article even points it out at the end,

Big picture: Lay’s generates about 60% of PepsiCo’s annual sales but has seen sales slip every quarter for the last three years. Consumers in every income bracket have been ditching classic snack brands amid rising prices.

Emphasis mine.

Atelopus-zeteki

fedia.io

The Environmental Working Group added potatoes to their dirty dozen list of foods that should not be eaten unless they are organic, for the first time this year, due to, "high concentrations of chlorpropham, a plant growth regulator banned in the European Union due to health concerns."

https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirty-dozen.php https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/potatoes.php