Everybody enjoys granola in one form or another. …. cereal, bars, ice cream topping, etc. And most everybody knows the basics of ingredients: oats, nuts, honey, etc.

Seems a bakery in Massachusetts had listed, among the items in their ingredient list for their granola, the item “love.”  The “ingredient” was a nod to the passion bakers put into their product and wink to fans of the snack.” The company’s chief executive officer was quoted as saying: “People ask us what makes (our products) so good. It’s kind of nice that we can say there’s love in it and it puts a smile on people’s faces.”

But the Food & Drug Administration didn’t see it that way. “A human emotion, it said, cannot be an ingredient in baked goods.” They published a warning letter to the bakery, telling them to “stop claiming that its granola contains love.”

(The FDA) “expects the company to correct the serious violations found upon FDA inspection, as noted in the warning letter.”

How would you have responded to this situation??

(Bangor Daily News, Oct 6, 2017)