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All is not bright and cheery with colorful prebiotic soda brand Poppi. A California woman has filed a class-action complaint against the brand over what she says is false advertising of its prebiotic functionality. The lawsuit was filed in the U.

S. District Court in the Northern District of California on May 29 by San Francisco resident Kristin Cobbs. The plaintiff says she purchased Poppi products on multiple occasions because they were labeled and marketed as a prebiotic soda made “For a Healthy Gut,” noting the brand’s slogan was “Be Gut Happy.



Be Gut Healthy.” (The slogan could no longer be found on Poppi’s website at the time of publication.) Cobbs says she bought sodas in March 2024 both in-store and online, noting one can of Poppi soda contains two grams of fiber.

According to the filing, that’s an amount “too low to cause meaningful gut health benefits” for someone who drinks just one can. “Accordingly, a consumer would need to drink more than four Poppi sodas in a day to realize any potential health benefits from its prebiotic fiber,” the lawsuit claims, adding one would need to drink at least that many, daily, for 21 consecutive days to even potentially see results. The document adds that “even if a consumer were to do this, Poppi’s high sugar content would offset most, if not all, of these purported gut health benefits.

” The Poppi website that each can of its soda has, at most, five grams of sugar and contains agave inulin and , which ar.

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