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Tag results: Fads

Eat More, They’re Healthy

The ’90s defining treat might have been SnackWell’s, a low-fat cookie brand that sold itself as healthy, but really just exposed public health policy failures.

Apr 02, 2019

Mean, Green Marketing Machine

During the early 1950s, you could not get away from chlorophyll at the grocery store—all thanks to a thinly sourced belief that the plant pigment fought odors.

Jan 15, 2019

 Related Tags: food, marketing, food history, health, cookies, nabisco, alternative medicine, chlorophyll, plants, plantlife, fads, 1950s, clorets, snackwell's, health food, low-fat, cookie man, health policy

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