• iopq@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    But it’s not lite peanut butter. It’s all items that are marked candy and soda. That’s a clear category

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      16 hours ago

      that’s not how any of this works… UPC codes (barcodes) only have the category as broad as “Food, Beverages & Tobacco”, brand names, product names, etc

      you have to maintain some database of UPC numbers to categories, which is how things like variants of peanut butter slip through… and good luck if you want to buy some smaller brand that isn’t on the governments radar