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Is there a term similar to "shrinkflation" when food is made cheaper instead of smaller?

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Strictly speaking this is a subset of what the food industry calls reformulation. They’ll also reformulate a product for other reasons (eg to reduce sugar/fat/salt or add a vitamin so they can make a health claim, tweak the flavour if it isn’t performing well, etc) but reducing materials and manufacturing costs is a big part of it. Maybe we can coin the term “deformulation”.

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I like that name. Deformulation definitely implies that the change was not made for the benefit of the consumer.

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