I didn't read that the FDA considers walnuts to be illegal drugs.
Diamond was marketing walnuts as having health benefits. The FDA said, there are no actual health benefits, so it's illegal to MARKET them as such.
The walnuts aren't illegal, just the marketing.
Let me know if I misread.
I don't like the FDA anymore than the next Patriot, but I think the article is a bit misleading.
That's what the walnut lobby gets for not dropping enough cash.
The Frito Lay portion of that article should tell you all you need to know.
Yes, you do have to read it carefully. It is the marketing that the FDA had isues with...not the Walnut itself. What I do not understand is that marketing Walnuts as healthy and the specifics that make it so but they can lable all this junk food as "healthy"...even recommend crappy, sugar-filled cereal as a essential part of every healthy breakfast. Sad and funny at the same time.I don't like the FDA anymore than the next Patriot, but I think the article is a bit misleading.
Yeah, I don't know how Cheerios can get away with being "heart healthy" but walnuts can't.
It must all be in the wording.