Kettle Chips “All Natural” Class Action Settlement
Class Eligibility
Purchasers of certain Kettle Brand products in the U.S. between 1/03/2010 and 2/24/2015. Kettle Brand tortilla chips, potato chips and TIAS chips are covered by the class action settlement if they included the following words on their labels:
- “All Natural”
- “Natural”
- “Naturally”
- “Made with All Natural Ingredients”
- “Natural Promise”
- “Nothing artificial”
- “No preservatives”
- “Non-GMO”
- “Non-GMO ingredients”
- “Only natural colors and flavors”
- “A Natural Obsession”
- “Real food ingredients”
- “Reduced Fat”
- “__% Less Fat”
- And/or any other derivation of “natural”
Estimated Amount
Up to $20 with proof of purchase or $10 without. It may be adjusted up or down based on the number of valid claims
Proof of Purchase
Not Required
Claim Form
Case Name
Klacko v. Diamond Foods Inc.,
Case No. 9:14-cv-80005
District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Case Summary
The lawsuit resolves allegations that the manufacturer made false claims regarding the products under the Kettle Brand products that were allegedly mislabeled as natural, nothing artificial, and non-GMO. According to the plaintiffs the products unnatural, synthetic and/or artificial ingredients. Further, the plaintiffs allege the “Natural” language is central to the marketing of Kettle Brand products and is likely to deceive reasonable consumers.
Settlement Pool
2,750,000
Settlement Website
Deadline
8/1/2015
Contact
Kettle Chips All Natural Settlement Claims Administrator
P.O. Box 43324
Providence, RI 02940-3324
1-877-450-8811
I bought Kettle Chips for parties/events I organized. Disappointed to learn that the claims may be false.
I am so disappointed!!!! We always buy these chips!!!! If only I would have known to keep my receipts 🙁
I buy kettle chips because I like how churches they but I didn’t keep my receipts
Rude.
This is my usual brand. I have bought hundreds of these!
So they are NOT GMO free????? I am very upset!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many kinds of Kettle Chips contain maltodextrin. Maltodextrin is an artificial sweetener that is derived from genetically engineered corn.
So happy there was a settlement! Love Kettle!
I would purchase a bag every Friday with my hero sandwich. Shame, shame.
Oh no! This is a brand that I purchase every single month because I thought they were Non-GMO! I am a blogger and I have been promoting them as a Non-GMO product on my blog and I am concerned on what my readers are going to think! I never keep my grocery receipts and I even have 2 bags in my pantry right now.
ADMIN-Hi Melissa,
Sadly they are not the only company who has promoted their products as natural when the reality is different. I would suggest you include a link to our website to help your readers check if they have been affected by false advertising claims.
oh no!!!
You sound like Mr. Bill on Saturday night live. Oh No!!!
I am sure you can email both readers of your blog and correct that life altering event about those damn potato chips!!
Now file your $10 claim and quit calling attention to yourself.
Got hard on?
You Lie….You Lie
That what I purchase for my kids because I thought there were no GMO.
I have always bought these chips, they were my favorite. To bad I didn’t keep any receipts.
Once again, and again and again. Another product that has lied, deceived, hoodwinked and bamboozled. I’m so tired of these companies promoting false advertising to gain our trust and steal our money. Thank God there is this legal action against this company and others, I just wish I had saved my receipts. From this point on, I will be filing all receipts bc this is becoming so darn common…….smh!
this goes for all that have replied so far…
why you folks acting like the world is gonna end over a bag of potato chips? Quick acting like this and just file the damn claim and take the free money like you usually do,.and quit calling attention to yourselves.
Haha! Really Holden. Give the masses a little slack. And chill out. Your stress levels sound awfully high to me.
This is so disappointing! I’ve probably spent over $100 buying this brand BECAUSE of their claim. Like many others I too don’t save my grocery receipts past maybe a few weeks. I’m so tired of companies doing this – actually I’m disgusted not tired – disgusted.
Who can we trust? Lies…all lies for the sake of profits! I guess we’ll just have to start making our own potato chips now.
WHAT CAN A PERSON BUY THAT IS WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE. I AM AFRAID TO BUY OTHER CHIPS AS THEY MAY BE LYING TOO.
what ashame they have to lie to get sales. I bought this brand for my kids, I never buy GMO’s. I guess I do now
Another product that lied so sorry I buy kettle all the time
Sorry to hear as I thought they were so good
Last 2 July 4TH party’s I purchased loads of these…and have since then!
I am so sorry that this company has been found to be con artists. Their product is great and we love them. Of course, I have no receipts (who saves potato chip receipts anyway?) so I am only requesting the $10, but am glad for the warning that they are con artists. Thanks alot.
yes I have purchased about 5 bags did not real care for them.
This brand I aalways bouht for partys holidays and just to snack on, I bought them cause they said all natural, Sucks that is not trie.
I bought kettle chips for a party, sorry to hear they are NOT natural.
I bought tonsof these chips due to the thought that they were all natural, I neeever sace my food recepits , This brand was my favoriate would buy them for hokidays and party,
i had gastric sleeve surgery so i only eat healthy all natraul foods this could be very dangerous for myself being mislabeled i cant believe ive been buying this and eating it thinking im going the healthy way
If you are eating ANY type of potato chips after gastric sleeve surgery, thinking they’re somehow a healthy choice, you need some serious support and education from a nutritionist or dietician. Learn to read the nutrition facts, rather than the label.
Love kettle chips. Love Natural foods I was fooled
Buy these all the time thinking they were better for my health.
Seriously stop the healthy crap.If you were so worried about healthy perhaps ANY DEEP FRIED CHIP is not the best way to go. Thank you Holden Caulfield {LOL} for saying things a lot of us would like to say!
DISGUSTED that they have the audacity to lie and pass something off as natural ! Just tell the truth
wow, and this is one of my favorites. This or Vicks… sad to read I have been taken…
I’ve eaten 3-4+ bags per WEEK of Kettle Brand Potato Chips for YEARS!!!! No wonder my wasteline isn’t as lean as I think it should be, eating chemicals makes for challenging weight loss. They owe me lots and lots of money. I was Vegan for years and Kettle Brand Chips we’re my savior so to speak. No one and I mean NO ONE has eaten more Kettle Brand Chips than me. We’re talking, thousands of bags of Kettle Brand Potato Chips OMG. I raved to everyone how great these chips were and why they should buy them. Now I look like a flake… Or a chip, rather.
Man I love these chips, we buy them all the time, why would I think to keep those grocery receipts?
ADMIN-Hi Jim,
Just file up to the maximum without receipt. I don’t think anyone keeps their chip receipts.
wow! as everyone else…very hard to hear this…love them and only eat natural products. countless money spent ,who would ever save their grocery receipts?!
Having been under the impression that the ingredients in these chips were natural, containing ‘no artificial ingredients’ – feel that I have been cheated. If I, or anyone really….. purchases something because of what the exterior advertisements say, then I expect them to be EXACTLY that. Whatever the label may be – we, as shoppers, are going to purchase based on ‘what the bag says’. This is disappointing, yet again. As a consumer, being cheated, with companies continuing to make money off of me at the same time.
Please help the shoppers, myself included, gain a bit back for consistently having faith in what we are being sold.
I loved Kettle Chips!!!
I was buying them for daughter part of her diet, sher liked them
Wow I bought 5 bags in February for my daughter’s birthday party wow
I bought bags and bags of chips,only to find out they are not natural
I bought kettle chips for my children. They love it and I can’t believe they lied!
I thought they were all natural, liked the chips but not what I expected them to be, will not purchase again
yes this is very disappointing when I buy a product I buy a product then set it is what it says it is
I would always buy these over other chips in the past. so disappointed.
Oh no! So upset over this!
Very disappointing….. i support Non-GMO products for health reasons. I purchased kettle chips at least 5 times of week trusting I made a good decision…….This upsets me
I cant believe this. These s.o.b.s got da cujones to lie to me . fugedaboutit, Im sending somebody down to straighten these mamalukes out right now .
I love Kettle chips. The “all natural” is an enticement for sure.
I bought these sometime like 2 years ago
I don’t like being lied to. Rocks are all natural, but that doesn’t mean you should eat them!!!!
I save all receipts because of this kind of fraud I am on special Diet PAY UP
and permantly disabled
my family loves kettle chips sorry have to go find another brand
Nothing in a package is all natural. If you want all natural, make it yourself. Stop being so neive. If your kids like them, what does it matter which non all natural brand you buy?
Poor Joel.
Take a valium.
Upset little Joel!
brought these all the time for the kids
Misleading……
I would buy at least 2 bags a week
I guessing natural isn’t all natural after all.
Don’t look now… Its captain obvious!
This is awful, I purchased several bags and I can potentially pull the receipts from vons card.
I’ve always loved these chips and now this? Oh well, hope were all ok. LOL
Wow I had no idea loved these chips did bye them all the time with lunch
very disappointed in this company
Wow! Highly disappointed !
All natural consumer of this product for many years. Dissapointed.
Purchase these chips frequently. Disappointed
I always purchase these chips! My favorite & I had no idea!
I always bought kettle chips,upset they lied
We pur chased these chips cause they were in the health food section. How can this be fair. We chose healthy foods for our family and it turns out to be false.
So disappointed I have been lied to for so long, I used to love this brand…
Very upset this was false.
We are fooled daily with false claims on products but it is terrible.
Of course no receipts but these are my favorite
I have bought this product many times over the years. Very disappointed I was mislead about it.
I love Kettle Brand chips anyway, crunchy, flavorful and good value……….
You do your best to eat right and then find out the stuff you buy is pure GMO Garbage. So I did a video on You Tube to help every one – I make no money off of it and if I wever get paid Patch Adams will got the money to run his 2 free clinics — “THE CURE FOR CANCER”
WE try – but theseI found a video on You Tub that can help : William Mount AGING REVERSED and STROKE DAMAGE REVERSED IN A CAT.
Go figure
these are my favorite chips. i try to eat healthy and non-GMO was about the only thing that made these a preference. very disappointed.
These chips were one of my favorites one of the reasons is I thought they were natural. Fooled again.
I have used this product many times. We all like the thicker chips. Never thought there could be anything wrong with them.
I loved these chips because they were GMO free and they tasted great! Now so disappointed!
Bag stating all natural
I have been buying these for years because I thought they were the healthier choice, so disappointed.
I tried to get my husband hooked on a better brand of chips since he is a chip fiend. That did not work so well since they aren’t so natural afterall.
Always buy these chips. I’m very disappointed to hear the claims are false !
Every time I would go look for chips I saw these next to other brands and thought natural meant better. I guess I might of well bought the other chips and would of gotten the exact same thing health wise.
Sad when it states it’s natural…healthier, disappointment…
I am super disappointed. I work at a grocery store that i bought these regularly at. They were my favorite. One tried every flavor. Too bad…
^ “oops “I’ve” tried every flavor
Great chips. They are a favorite at our house!
I buy these all the time because I thought they were healthier.
What’s REALLY incredible is that for all the people that are SO shocked and taken aback…you were looking for a healthy POTATO CHIP?!?!! AND YOU’RE SURPRISED IT WASN’T REALLY HEALTHY?! Will you be this floored when it turns out that Vaping is just as deadly as smoking cigarettes.
However, thanks for the comic relief. The fake indignation over the false claims…Oh You are soooo horrified. You were SWINDLED! WORD TO THE WISE – SAVE THE THATRICS AND HYSTRIONICS AND BIG TIME FIBS. You are gonna get your 100% free money no matter what. You could probably leave a post saying you never bought the chips but just wanted the free money and you’d still get the free money.
I think there is a very small percentage of people on and off this site that even understands what a “Class-Action Lawsuit” is. They KNOW they are paying people who don’t deserve it. But they are also paying people who DO deserve it. Stop with the false indignation, “I NEVER keep my receipts!” RIGHT! That’s why CLASS-ACTION LAWSUITS EXIST and THAT’s WHY YOU GET MONEY FOR NOTHING!! Because even the people that really DID buy these chips don’t have their receipts from 2009.
Last tidbit of info: It’s not foolproof though. You DO see that EACH time you file you are swearing it’s true and if they see you just fill out every single CALS that comes along….that’s perjury. And perjuring yourself is even less fun than eating crappy potato chips.
Good God Almighty.
Bought these chips because I thought they were healthy. Sad to hear the claims were false
I too have been misled about the health benefits of the chips.
Bought these chips to attempt to live a healthier life.. Sad to see this company lie.
Misrepresentation of health benefits of these chips – Bought these on regular basis – sorry to find out that I had been misled.
I love kettle chips because of the crunch and less saltiness. My go to chips easy them all the time.
I have bought numerous bags for these chips substantially on the fact these chips were GMO free.
I purchased the natural kettle chips from Kettle because I was on a diet, no wonder i wasn’t seeing a difference!
The only reason I buy these is there healthier come to find out they same as cheap ones
Fat free X2
always look to the more natural choice, its bull that a company lies to people that trying to take the healthier road
So these chips are full of GMO’s not cool, very disappointed, I though this was a safe brand to buy for my family!
Oh wow I’m so sad to hear this.
why are these label natural this is wrong
My HUSBAND Love these chips sad to tell him that the brand is misleading.
I have purchased this brand during my weekly shopping on a consistent basis for years . I thought I was purchasing an all natural product.
guess they are really not natural.
Very, very disappointing to think you are getting one thing and then you get something else.
Heartbroken! When these hit the shelf, I fell in love! I buy a big bag for home every week and the small ones and a Coke if I’m in a convenience store! Hundreds of bags!!! If they fix this, I will remain a customer forever!
I eat these all the time
I love these chips! Way better then Lays.
Very disappointed to learn these are not `GMO free in addition to it not being natural
not natural. False!
yes very embarrassing at my party.
I love these chips, this is really too bad.
I always buy these chips because I try to eat healthy. At times I have even promoted them to all my friends at work to the point that they are always buying them in bulk. I can not because I am in a tight budget.
Who the heck keeps grocery receipts for months after the food is gone?? I bought these ALL the time and now I feel like a fool for believing their advertisements!
Sad to hear we have been lied to. WE love these chips and purchase them often. Are they still made the same way now?
I purchase the all natural for grandkids and when I give parties get together a I thought we were eating healthy what a disappointment
$4.00
$3
$10
I always buy these chips but fave it no thought as to authentication
I ALWAYS BUY THESE