How “Healthy” Is That Health Food, Actually?

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Does a Nestlé drink that tastes delicious and boosts your kid’s immunity sound too good to be true? Yeah, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission thought so too.

TIME’s Tiffany O’Callaghan wrote today about the FTC’s announcement that Nestlé will have to withdraw its’ claims that BOOST Kid Essentials has “friendly bacteria”—bacteria so friendly, that it was said to boost your children’s immunity. The truth is those marketing claims were completely unsupported.

For the whole story, as well as another company that made bogus health claims, check out the Wellness blog.