Nutrition Advocates Blast Marketing of Girl Scouts' Newest Cookie

Mango Crème touted as 'delicious new way to get your vitamins'

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Nutrition advocates chose National Girl Scout Cookie Day to take the organization to task for marketing the organization's newest cookie as "a delicious new way to get your vitamins."

"It's bad enough that the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. sells cookies to raise money, but it shouldn't pretend that its new 'Mango Crèmes with NutriFusion' are nutritionally equivalent to fruit," said the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which fired off a letter Friday to Girl Scouts CEO Anna Maria Chávez.

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