A US consumer has filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming that there is no mango in Starbucks’ mango drink.
According to Bloomberg News on the 8th, the woman named Joan Comenis filed a lawsuit with the federal court in Manhattan, New York on the 5th.
She claimed that some Starbucks drinks that had ‘mango’ in their product name didn’t contain mango.
She also added that there was no acai in the drink that had ‘acai’ in its name, a type of palm tree fruit.
Comenis claims that water, grape juice concentrate and sugar are the main ingredients in these drinks ‘unwittingly’ by the consumer.
She did not disclose the basis for making this claim about the ingredients of the beverage.
A Starbucks spokesperson declined to comment, saying she has not yet been contacted by the complaint.
One day, she ordered a drink of acai, and she was shocked to find out that she didn’t have acai, Comminis claims, depriving her of the health benefits of the fruit.
The company also argued that Starbucks violated a New York State law prohibiting consumer deception and false advertising in that the product name was viewed as an “implicit promise” to an ingredient.
She also said that Starbucks took advantage of this by cheating on the ingredients of its products.
The price of a mango drink in Manhattan is $5.25 (about 6,830 won) for a medium-sized (Grande).
“The consumer pays a high price when he sees the product name,” the company said in a statement.
According to Bloomberg, the amount claimed by Comminis is said to be more than $5 million.