A recent tweet from David Kessler provided this link, fooddive.com/news/the-case-against-all-natural/265149/#.U3yxf6BysiU.twitter …, regarding all-natural products and recent spate of lawsuits:

Here’s an excerpt from “The case against ‘all-natural’:

But how “natural” is the “natural” label? It might be a bit more misleading than you think. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration admits it doesn’t even have a hard-and-fast definition on what the term means. The agency also doesn’t object to a product being labeled as such, so long as “the food does not contain added color, artificial flavors, or synthetic substances.”

However, some consumers just aren’t buying that “all-natural” claim, and there have already been many notable court cases to prove it. Here’s a roundup of five recent lawsuits forcing food producers to cough up cash and remove labels after products didn’t live up to their farm-to-store promise.

Five recent lawsuits -highlighted in article

• Kashi
• Nature Valley
• PopChips
• Naked Juice
• Tropicana Orange Juice

In a related post, ClarkHoward.com discusses how labels are misleading:

Here’s the link: 5 Label Tricks

“Food labels like “organic,” “free range,” “all natural,” and “multigrain” don’t necessarily mean what you think.”  He provides specific advice to avoid buying a misleading product.