In 2011, a San Diego mother filed a class-action lawsuit against Ferrero USA Inc., the company that makes Nutella hazelnut spread. The woman declared herself “shocked to learn … that Nutella was in fact not a ‘healthy,’ ‘nutritious’ food,” as she said its advertisements misleadingly implied. Similar suits followed, leading Ferrero USA to agree to a $3-million settlement, which will compensate the mother and other shocked and appalled (and nutritionally oblivious) U.S.
