US-based food company General Mills and consumer watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) have settled a lawsuit over the company's Fruit Roll-Ups product label.
According to the settlement, the company will have to revise the labeling of its strawberry-flavored Fruit Roll-Ups by mentioning that the product does not contain any natural strawberries, reported Startribune.com.
The settlement includes only strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups, and not other flavors or Fruit by the Foot snacks.
Last year, a Californian consumer filed a case with the help of CSPI, which monitors and takes up food labeling issues.
In the lawsuit, the consumer alleged the company incorrectly claimed on the labelling that the product was "made with real fruit" where as the snacks' ingredients comprises pears from concentrate, rather than actual strawberry.
The consumer group had said that strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups' label actually misled consumers about the fruit content.
