JonnyPops Accused of Falsely Saying Its Popsicles Are 100% Fruit

The maker of GoodPop frozen treats accused rival JonnyPops LLC of selling “trojan horse pops” that dupe consumers who are looking for healthy, fruit-based snacks into buying popsicles that contain mostly water and cane sugar with very little fruit, according to a new federal lawsuit.

“Indeed, JonnyPops’s pops have 66% more added sugar per fluid ounce than a traditional Coke,” Austin’s Natural Frozen Pops Inc. said in a false advertising complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas. “And to find any actual fruit content in JonnyPops’s fake fruit, sugar water products, you will ...