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'Marketplace' Report: Check Your Spices

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August 25, 2008

That might not be chocolate you're eating. Some big food makers have been altering their recipes on candy and other products to save money. Hershey is substituting vegetable oil for some of the cocoa butter in chocolate bars, for example, and spice maker McCormick is now using Mexican oregano instead of the more expensive Mediterranean version. Madeleine Brand talks with Marketplace's Bob Moon about what might be in your Italian seasoning.

 
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