ziljin But, the generic labels would have to show hfcs (in the U.S. anyway) or any ingredient. Though, in my experience, the generic brands tend to have the exact same ingredients as the name brand, at least if they're beside each other in the store.
Same manufacturer and ingredient doesn't *always* mean you get the same quality product though. And I'm telling you this as a fairly open-minded frugal person(read cheap-skate), I get genuinely excited over cheaper alternatives! It's basically trial and error, trying the cheapest alternative and working your way up until the quality is agreeable lol. Drug part is spot on, always get the cheapest painkillers.
I work in a grocery store and most of our store brand dairy products(ice cream, sour cream, milk, dip for chips)are made by Hood. Occasionally we'll be out of a Hood product and I'll suggest our brand. People scoff at me and say it doesn't taste the same. Then I'll tell them it is made by Hood and is exactly the same and they still argue that it doesn't taste right. Funny stuff.
Bad analogy. Ferraris and Fiats are not identical. There are several major obvious differences. Now for a better analogy. Occasionally a car company will produce a specific model of car under 2 different makes. Like the Chrysler Cirrus and the Dodge Stratus. Same exact car in every way. The only differences being the company logo and name of car. Our store brand dairy products have the same exact product inside as Hood does. No difference at all.
It's like milk that is sold here where I live. The named brand and store brand are the same. They both come from the company it just they put different labels on the milk.
Just because it's made by the same company doesn't mean that it's made the same. Have you checked to see if the ingredients or nutritional value are both the same?
The biggest difference is marketing. Brand names get marketed and whether you think about it or not, it stays with you subconsciously. For example, when you're at the grocery store and you have the same product (that you've never tried) from different brands, you'll feel more familiar with the one you saw on TV last night. It's why people would rather buy something that says Tylenol rather than acetaminophen. The first one sounds familiar, the second sounds scary and complicated (yet they're the same).
I know right? I remember when "President's Choice" (generic brand in Canada) came out with their white cheddar macaroni. SOOOO much better than Kraft Dinner.
I usually go for the generic brands for most things as I don't find too much of a difference except for cosmetics, where I notice a pretty big difference between the quality. Food, cleaning products, medicine, vitamins etc. are all generic for me!
Lava Yuki only thing I ever buy name brand is Laundry detergent, shampoo, and razors. But I get those on sale with coupons so I end up paying less than the generics.
Actually...I was just in the store a couple days ago and bought some allergy medicine. 1 box of 10 Claritin tablets cost about $11.99. The generic version (10 tablets in one box) cost about $2.39. I looked at the list of active ingredients, and they are both the exact same...They also claim to treat exactly the same things. However, some things that are brand named are better than their generic versions. Charmin bathroom tissue is one of them, at least based on what I experienced.
Generic paracetamol is hardly ever over about 25p in UK shops but brand name ones with shiny packaging routinely run around £4. That's a massive difference for the same drug.
It's all marketing, they make you feel like the name brand is more valuable/exclusive etc. In some cases the name brand can be the right choice, if it results in great superior quality. According to my calculations, if one plus one equals two... one plus one two times will equal four.
+Savage Cookie That is the absolute most stupidest comment I have ever read. In fact, I bet that every person that reads this comment, looses 30 IQ points.
There's one thing you missed about generic drugs- while the active ingredients may be the same, some time-release drugs have different coatings that affect how smoothly the drug is released. I have heard of multiple people talking about how the generic version of Wellbutrin is more "peaky" than the brand name version, because of an inferior designed time release coating.
the good thing is that the placebo effect goes away when you're aware of it. thanks to this video i no longer taste a difference between some brands of food
This video was featured in my Human Disease & Drug Pharmacology class's lecture! It was awesome to see them feature knowledgeable youtubers like you guys. Cheers!
Uh.... if the coffees both the same why would I not prefer nicer looking cups and silverware? And most brand name actually have very different tastes from each other (aside from drugs?) It's the reason why people have an issue when you try to substitute pepsi and coke.
For the brand name vs generic on drugs, while I do prefer the savings of generic over the counter stuff, I've noticed that much of the time the brand name stuff seems to be "Fresher" IE the expiry date is often a year or even two further than the generic stuff. It makes me wonder if there is some actual correlation between this, or whether the bran name stuff moves faster, leaving generic ones to sit on the shelf/warehouse for longer. I often end up buying brand name for stuff that will only be consumed sporadically, so it doesn't run over it's expiry sitting in the medicine cupboard. (Especially when the few bucks of savings leaves me with only ~6 months to use the generic ones before they aren't guaranteed to be fully effective anymore.)
keep in mind when it comes to drugs, in certain cases the inactive ingredients in pills play a role in helping more efficiently metabolize the active ingredient and control how it is absorbed into the body. These inactive ingredients are a lot of times specific to no name or brand name(meaning that sometimes the no name might work better than brand name).
My sister and I were raised on off-brand everything. When we went on vacation one time, our parents let us pick out the brand name version of our favorite cereals (we were poor and this was a big deal, yo.) The next morning, my sister poured out her legit Cocoa Puffs and was alarmed at how gross they were. She immediately asked for the generic brand as soon as we got home.
see popular companies can price their items by anything they can make a bag of chips the same amount and same ingredients as store brand food but when people see that lays symbol or coke symbol they will always go for those and they know when they price foods even higher most people will but because they think it's healthier
Thank you for making this video, as someone who works at a pharmacy I constantly hear how generic brands don't work, and I just wanna yell at the customer
Bruh those chips are copyrighted No Name is a Canadian Brand runned by a grocery brand called Presidents Choice which includes Loblaws, Zehrs, No Frills, Independent, and Shoppers Drug Mart
In many cases, for me generic is the way to go. However, there are one or two items I can think of (foodwise) that I just cannot handle. The store-brand version of greek yogurt I tried was absolutely horrible. I have to have my Chobani, even if it costs more. I have to live cheap when I can, and generally food that is generic is just fine. But not greek yogurt.
There are methods to 'skip' certain steps when creating medication, and those methods can greatly affect a patient. I've suffered from ill effects from the 'same' medication before, but one brand was awful and the other was good.
No GMO's and everything has accurate ingredient labels. I can't count the times I found two products at walmart for the same price but the ingredients were completely different and one had significantly less product! I'd rather go into Aldi and know I'm always getting the best product.
sometimes the fresh fruit and veg isn’t actually fresh which is my only problem, I once halved an avocado on the same day I bought it and it was all brown inside
Having worked at Walmart stocking shelves I ended up noticing a store brand product get shipped to Walmart in a name brand case. So yes sometimes the name brand and the store brand are exactly the same and produced by the same company, just packed in different containers.
This is not a complete argument. Everyone knows the taste is pretty much the same but why shouldn't presentation be considered in the competetion? How is that irrelevant? Everyone loves drinking Coca Cola often simply becasue it's Coca Cola. A part of the enjoyable experience during drinking Coca Cola is knowing the fact that I'm drinking Coca Cola, I wouldn't enjoy it as much if it wasn't because the Coca Cola company have worked hard to build up their brand over the years. Everyone in the world drinks Coca Cola, I drink Coca Cola, my friends drink Coca Cola, I drank Coca Cola as a kid, I drink Coca Cola as an adult. They have built up their brand to feel real and simply being Coca Cola is part of the experience.
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky Then explain why the Placebo Effect is a consistent and reproducible result in a wide range of studies. There absolutely is a difference in brand versus generic to many people even if the products are "identical"
+Jason Shen this kinda goes out the window when u learn that they're the same. u can't TELL ppl they're on the placebo and expect a result which is why they require blind tests. by the act of watching and believing this video (or other sources) u can no longer get the placebo effect from brand namee
here in the UK you have to pay £8.40 per item on a prescription, when you get a prescription you only get generic medication(majority of the time). sometimes brand names are a lot cheaper than the set limit of £8.40, so the pharmacist might recommend you the brand names instead of the generic counter-part because its a lot cheaper
In the beginning of the video, they mention the Peter Pan Peanut Butter recall. Odd fact, I was very young when I ate the contaminated peanut butter and caught salmonella.
The thing about brand name items is that you typically know what you are going to expect. If you shop at a specific store and haven't tried their own brand, you may or may not get a product that is the same or better for less. If you have to choose between a ton of different brands, the one that you know you prefer is the one you're going to buy. Since the brand name items are often the ones you try first, you may not want to take a chance on something different
Yes. There is a difference between generic and the brand names items. I've bought both of the "same" kind of food and even when they have the same ingredients, they taste different. Trust me, I want to buy the cheaper kind but most don't taste as good or better. There are some that are better than the brand name, but not many. The same with shampoo, i bought the cheaper kind when I compered the ingredients and it was a mistake that I've done more than once. I went back to Head n Shoulders as the store brand didn't help any even if they had the same percentage of anti-dandruff.
+NyteMunkey This might fall into the spectrum of placebo effect/noceble effect. Have you tried to let some of your family members remove the labels and let you eat them without knowing which is which? It would be even better if your family members code these items in a way that even they don't know which is which before revealing the coding. If you can tell the difference in that case, than it might be the case that generic is different from brand names items even if they have the same ingredients. It is also possible that packaging and unrevealed ingredients or other factor might be contributing to the difference.
Yogurt tastes better in a metal spoon other then a wooden one Water tastes colder if served in a blue glass over a green one And a strawberry dessert on a white place is creamery then on a black one It’s the placebo effect 🤗
Generic Cereals taste like shit though and I know it's not placebo because I was served generic brand of fruity pebbles and immediately knew it was not real Fruity Pebbles.
+Happyfeet +Happy Loner Are you guys even talking about cereal? Maybe cereal as in everything you eat for breakfast with milk, but not actually cereal, right?
+Happy Loner Well, turns out that Fruity Pebbles and Froot Loops can be considered cereals according to their ingredients list. I apologize for the inconvenience. I would like to draw your attention to the fact, however, that both these products contain trans fats by virtue of (partially) hydrogenated vegetable oils. Take care =)
When you cook bread, it chemically changes the ingredients to be... well, bread. When you make chex mix and just rename it corn squares, it's pretty much the same.
Same thing for my asthma meds. Originally I was prescribed Singulair, which worked very well, but later, another doctor prescribed an off-brand version that was way cheaper and worked the same
It doesn't matter actually. All you have to do is look up the amount of layers, number of sheets and its softness (3-4 layers is the only thing I tolerate lmao). You can get yourself the same kind of toilet paper but have to pay ~2€ less if it's generic. Just don't randomly grab stuff without looking at it properly
Well, my father worked in those industries and he told me (for at least in my country (France)), that generic food and great brand food aren't the same at all. For example, sugar is often replaced with glucose syrup
Can you do a your brain on sugar video, I was telling my daughter how she should eat healthier food instead of sugar. But I couldn't explain how sugar isn't all that healthier than food we need to get us through the day.
+Jocelyn Sandoval tell her sugars only contain the sweet things needed for bodies to function everyday and she needs a lot more which come from veggies and meat.
I always buy the Kroger brand. Kroger brand chips cost $1.88 and a bag of Wavy Lay's usually cost $3.29, they are the same exact chips. Kroger brand unsweetened apple sauce $1.99, Mott's unsweetened apple sauce $2.49, they are the same size and have the same exact ingredients ( APPLES, WATER, ASCORBIC ACID).
There's a significant potassium component. Also the other constituents change quite a lot from product to product. The variation between edible salts is great and noticeable. See for example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_edible_salts
Two things that I have never found a generic alternative that tastes identical for: Oreos and Cheerios. The closest I can find to Oreos always tastes burnt and the closest toasted oats I can find to plain Cheerios done even have the same texture (much larger air pockets/bubble).
Commodities like salt and flour are pretty safe, but there is no way in god's green earth you will ever convince me that 'Tastey-O's are identical for 'Cheerios'.
Especially when buying things like cold medicines the store brand will almost exactly be the same and sometimes yes the brand makes the generic as well. They do that to see if spending more on advertising can be made up in the higher cost they charge, versus the less they charge for a product being balanced out by the money they saved by not advertising.
