Alcohol in pudding not clearly displayed

But people wouldn't be looking in that random corner of the packaging

If you're avoiding an ingredient, you need look all over the packaging to make sure it's not in the product. This is basic shopping 101. Sainsbury's isn't a public health body.

But people wouldn't be looking in that random corner of the packaging to check if it was alcohol free, they would be looking in the name of the product and the description of it. Both of those make me think that the dessert is suitable for my 8 year old.

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Ive seen a new advert out for our local Sainsburys over the weekend, its for someone to sound a klaxon over at the chilled dessert aisle every time one of these is picked up

So some one is on the case for sure!

There are many examples of people missing things. If the solution is to write it bigger, how big do you think red traffic lights need to be for cyclists?

I wonder what people think Sainsbury's are trying to do here. 'Help for people with alcohol issues' or 'sell a pudding including details of all ingredients and allergens on the label'.

If you're trying to avoid an ingredient, you need to scour the packaging. That's on you, and it's the same for everyone, whatever they're trying to avoid. Why does the packaging have to assume you can't read text the same size as the ingredients list?

Yet so many have missed it.

Pretty clearly displayed on the front of the packaging.

But yet loads of people missed it which shows that it's not that clear.

And for some here who have said it was clear they are looking at the packaging specifically to look for the wording.....if they were in the supermarket buying it themselves at least some of them would definitely have missed it.

And then we have people here who went looking for it, so they knew it was on the box and it still took a while to spot it.

So that would show that it's not actually clear, especially when there's no mention of alcohol in the name of the product, or in the description of the product....or in the second description of the product which is on the Sainsburys website and is presumably elsewhere on the packaging but they don't show it on the website.

It was a very badly labelled/described product in general.

I don't like alcohol in desserts but let's say I did and spotted the contains alcohol wording and was happy to buy the product, I then would have been disgusted to find that it had a coffee flavour also because that was written nowhere on the front of the packaging.

Alcohol and coffee and strong flavours in dessert so I expect it to be more immediately obvious what the flavour of the dessert is.

They're also flavours that if you are not a fan of will completely overpower the dessert and ruin it so the description should have been far more clear.

And if someone was to buy the product on their website they are unlikely to zoom in and look at the entire picture looking for anything about alcohol and there is zero mention of alcohol at all except in the ingredients list.

Also in the same range there's a tiramisu which was probably likely to be very close to it or even next to it on the shelf as there's only 5 desserts in the range that I can see

They have
strawberry and cream meringue kisses
Lime cheesecake slices
Sticky toffee pudding
Amaretto Tiramusu
Chocolate hazelnut pots

The chocolate hazelnut pot description on the front of the pack says
Sponge biscuit, layered with creamy chocolate hazelnut mascarpone and topped with chopped hazelnuts and chocolate shavings

I wouldn't be checking that further to see if it contained alcohol or coffee because I would assume it didn't...seeing as it didn't say so in the description and also because it was likely beside the tiramisu, why would they have 2 similar flavor desserts in such a small collection, but misrepresent the flavour of one of them? weird

It's definitely not clear. Everything should be considered, not just the fact that the wording is on the packet.

Is it clear though?

I think it is clear.
It's on the front and written in clear font, and is not particularly small font.

I saw it on the first opening of the image.

Maybe you need to go to the opticians then.

If people bother to read the op updates they will see that she admitted she didn't bother to read the label properly and it was on the front.

Bold is used to highlight key allergens.
Alcohol doesn't meet that criteria.

It does say that it contains alcohol, quite clearly, on the front of the packaging - this is in addition to it being in the ingredients list.

It’s clear that that op has run off .

I looked a number of times before I saw it written in plain sight.

It's clear in the sense that it's written in plain language on it twice, but it's not clear in the sense that some people aren't very good at looking for things.

Is it clear though? It took me looking at the packaging 4-5 times to see it. 2-3 of those times I knew it was on the front and wanted to see it from myself.

Wow. Thank goodness you turned up!

Is this the product in question?
It says Contains Alcohol clearly on the front of the box 🫤
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-chocolate-hazelnut-pots-taste-the-difference-2x95g

Of course you do. People with no.specific dietary requirement don't need to read the lable. This is not a surprise.

Anyone who does have specific requirements has to read the information given. It's all there.

What do you expect supermarkets to do? Employ a member of staff to follow every shopper around saying 'Do you know what's in that?' every time they pick up a product?

Sainsbury are probably wondering why there’s an upsurge in the sale of these, or views on their website!

It's definitely not clear and anyone with sight problems wouldn't be able to see the tiny writing.

If I read the description of the product, I would think that it would be a nice posh dessert for my young children. This is why it is misleading. It should be in the description of the pudding to make it clear, not in micro letters elsewhere on the packaging.

They're on my list for today!!!

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Something like this I would check the ingredients particularly because a lot of chocolate desserts contain meat products and dairy

However I do know many people who are not vegan or vegetarian and don’t have allergies who just pop something like this in their basket without paying much attention to what is in the product

Slightly of topic but I added these to my shopping and they are fairly good.