Sara Lee ‘All Butter’ Pound Cake Has Soybean Oil, Suit Says

Sara Lee “All Butter Pound Cake” is deceptively labeled because the iconic product also contains soybean oil, a cheaper shortening ingredient, a new proposed class suit alleges.

Consumers prefer butter to chemically-produced “vegetable” oils for reasons including taste, health, and avoidance of highly processed artificial substitutes for butter, Paula Salouras says in a suit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Where a food is labeled as “butter” or uses the word “butter” in conjunction with its name, reasonable consumers will expect all of the shortening ingredient to be butter, the suit against Sara ...