Food Giants Kraft-Heinz, PepsiCo, and Others Hit With Consumer Lawsuit Calling Ultraprocessed Ingredients Addictive

Kraft Heinz, PepsiCo and other packaged food giants have been named in a consumer lawsuit claiming their products are designed to be addictive. The complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin seeks $1 billion in damages. It argues ultraprocessed foods are scientifically engineered to be addictive and that companies took a page out of the tobacco industry’s playbook when marketing them to children.

This is the second consumer lawsuit targeting ultraprocessed foods. It comes a few months after San Francisco filed the first government lawsuit on the issue, claiming food manufacturers engineered a “public health crisis.”

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