Some large corporations can have processed foods made for them by smaller companies and they might not always know where all the ingredients came from. Sugar, spices and other ingredients might have come from foreign countries. So, I think to protect themselves they just make a blanket statement "distributed by".
The other reason it might say "distributed by" is if the product comes from a foreign country and the corporation thinks it might hurt sales if people knew the country of origin.
It's another good reason to stay away from processed foods. But it's not just processed foods.
Fruits and Vegetables: Another trick marketers might use to sell packaged fruit and vegetables is to come up with a name that sounds American like: Country Harvest or Valley Farms. Then you have to search the back of the package to find "China" in small print. That's what I found in "Dollar Tree".
And most people never bother to look because they just assume it's an American product.
When it comes to canned or frozen fish it usually says where it's from.
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