Misleading advertisment : PriyaGold Orange Juice
Posted by JV on April 27, 2008
I have been frustrated over many misleading advertisements aired on Indian television. Particularly I have strong dislike against certain advertisements of food products which are bent upon to change the eating habits of people. Unfortunately there is no such thing as censor on advertisements.
In this advertisment of orange juice from PriyaGold, the ad is attempting to establish that one should drink packaged/preserved orange juice instead of water. No doubt fruit juices are good for health, and I am not against that, but again preserved/packed juice does not contain any natural nutrition/nourishment as to natural homemade juice (eating fruits is better than drinking juice, but that is another issues).
However, this advertisement without any hesitation declare that onc should drink only juice and not water, which is apparent by its punch line “AB PANI KOI NAHI MANGEGA” / अब पानी कोई नही मांगेगा ( Nobody will ask for water) .
You may find me little bit touchy, but I cant help myself and decide to grudge.
April 27, 2008 at 1:50 pm
pretty soon they’ll be telling us not to eat any other food except sun feat biscuits.
April 27, 2008 at 10:17 pm
JV, there is a censoring body and its called ASCI. The link is here. In fact now the ASCI is going to be even stricter than before about which I have written on my own blog here.. Looks like you don’t read my blog JV!
April 27, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Well, my own blog link didn’t appear for some reason. Let me try again.
Its here.
April 28, 2008 at 10:10 am
Ahm, you are right
Thanks for the link.
April 29, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I agree with you JV.This advertisement is misleading.
May 2, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I hate such advertisement too… Here we have many products for children, where the advertisement says, that it is healthy and tasty, that it is make of milk, and no conservation material are used and so on. But they have a lot of sugar, which is not good for the health and especially for health of children.
Did you see the film Iciocracy? There stupid people replaced the water with some limo 
They even watered the plants with that 
And you are right, drinking only orange juice is not healthy. Those juices are very caloric. Drinking one bottle of such juice is like you have eaten maybe a kilo of oranges at once. Not mention, that in the ad they do not say, that such juices contain sugar, conservation materials and E´s too. They should write it on the pack, but who reads that in the shop? Fruits are healthy, but much of everything is unhealthy. And replacing water with orange juice is a total absurdity. People do not run on orange juice, but on water
May 4, 2008 at 10:03 am
Thanks for your informative comment. No ihaven’t seen Idiocracy, but plan to see now.
May 5, 2008 at 6:01 pm
And what do you say about the Manikchand Oxyrich water that claims to have 300% more Oxygen
May 5, 2008 at 6:39 pm
lol, well said. it would be amusing to know how water (h2o) would contain extra 300 % oxygen, chemically perhaps it would be converted into something else.
May 8, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Very true. And there are so many more out there ….