Bottles of Vimto recalled as customers issued with warning

Bottles of Vimto have been recalled as customers were issued with a warning. Nichols plc has recalled Vimto Original products because the bottles have been wrongly labelled with a ‘No Added Sugar’ statement.

The 500ml bottles have been recalled due to them being labelled with a ‘No Added Sugar’ statement when, in fact, the product within the bottles contains added sugar. This makes the product a potential risk to consumers who need to manage their sugar intake.

The warning issued by the Food Standards Agency reads: "If you have bought the above products and need to manage your sugar intake, please do not drink them. Instead, return it to the store from where it was bought for a full refund."

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The products that are affected are the 500ml ‘Love The Taste’ Promotional Pack versions of Vimto Original. Those with a batch code of 4051 and 4052 with a best before date of October 2024 have been recalled. Also included are those with the batch codes 4073 and 4074, with a best before date of November 2024.

‘Love The Taste’ Promotional Pack versions of Vimto Original £1.25 Price Marked Pack with the batch codes 4050, 4051, 4072 and 4073 with best before dates of October and November were also recalled.

The customer notice says: "This action is being taken due to a packaging error, which has caused a limited number of bottles to be labelled with the statement ‘No Added Sugar’, despite the product within the bottles containing added sugar. No other batch codes or Vimto products are affected by this error.

"A simple way to identify whether a product is affected, is to establish whether the product has a purple cap but carries the statement ‘No Added Sugar’ as depicted above. All 500ml products with purple caps contain added sugar."