03/11/2022
CANADA DRY GINGER ALE, MADE WITH REAL GINGER OR NOT?
Victor Cardoso - a British Columbia man filed a class-action lawsuit against Canada Dry-brand ginger ale and the case settled for $200,000!
Mr. Cardoso and his family had been consuming Canada Dry for years because of the expected health benefits from 'real ginger' such as a remedy for stomach aches and fevers. False and misleading advertisement made Cardoso file a lawsuit.
The actual ginger content is two parts per million or
"One drop" of ginger flavour extract spread across 70 cans, below human taste and far lower to give a nutritional value and insufficient to provide the natural remedy of a ginger.
“They do buy actual ginger, but then what they do is they boil it in ethanol, and that essentially destroys any nutritional or medicinal benefits,” Mark C. Canofari, lawyers from Boughton Law Corporation representing Cardoso’s claim, told CTV News.
According to CTV News, Canada Dry Mott's agreed to pay $200,000 and more than $18,000 in disbursements, but it "expressly denies liability and is not required to change its product labelling or advertising for products marketed in Canada.
Cardoso and the Alberta plaintiff, received $1500 honorariums to recognize the work and research they did. The company also agreed it would no longer make claims that its ginger ale is “Made from Real Ginger" in class-action lawsuits also filed in the U.S., according to CTV News.
QUESTION: Should ginger ale made with real ginger? Comment your thoughts in the box below!
