Fake cream: FACUA reports five manufacturers and supermarkets for fraud in King cakes
Despite the fact that their fillings are a mixture with vegetable greases, they use the term 'cream' in their names or on signs next to them. These are Aldi, Lidl and Dia and the manufacturers Aserceli and Zampabollos.
FACUA.org
España-04/01/2022
FACUA-Consumers in Action has reported two manufacturers and three supermarket chains for selling King cakes (roscones de Reyes) that are fraudulently presented as cream-filled, when in fact they contain other substances. These practices constitute misleading advertising and a violation of European labelling regulations.
Three of the supermarkets, Aldi, Lidl and Dia, have resorted to the misleading claim of displaying signs in their shops to present as cream filled cakes whose labelling indicates otherwise.
For its part, the Andalusian chain MAS sells a cake made for these supermarkets by the company Zampabollos, from the town of Almonte in Huelva, which has also been reported. On its box it is presented as a «deep-frozen cake filled with cream«. However,
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