Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient gets listed first

American food companies use a legal FDA-approved tactic called "ingredient splitting" to manipulate product labels by dividing sweeteners into multiple separate ingredients so each weighs less individually, allowing a less dominant ingredient like strawberries to appear first on the label. This technique creates a misleading impression of the product's primary ingredient when sugar is actually the main component, exemplified by Smuckers jam which lists strawberries first despite being primarily sugar-based.