What a product costs to make, line by line: ingredients, packaging, labor, freight and the margin at each step to the shelf.
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Sep 23, 2026
Why canned pumpkin is really squash, how one corner of Illinois packs a year of it in 6 weeks, and what an ounce costs whole, cut and canned
What's in the bottle, how a plant builds a cream substitute out of soybean oil, and why the real thing sells for less