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Why cake mix lacks one essential ingredient

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  • 2017
  • #Nutrition
Veronique Greenwood
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The invention of cake mix nearly foundered – but when manufacturers made a counter-intuitive change to their simple recipe, sales boomed.

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Antonio García Martínez @antoniogm · May 7, 2023
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A classic marketing case study is Betty Crocker redefining “made from scratch” by intentionally (but needlessly) requiring the addition of an egg to cake mixes to boost sales.
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