• Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Strictly speaking this is a subset of what the food industry calls reformulation. They’ll also reformulate a product for other reasons (eg to reduce sugar/fat/salt or add a vitamin so they can make a health claim, tweak the flavour if it isn’t performing well, etc) but reducing materials and manufacturing costs is a big part of it. Maybe we can coin the term “deformulation”.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      2 months ago

      I like that name. Deformulation definitely implies that the change was not made for the benefit of the consumer.