A New York woman is roasting almond giant Blue Diamond, claiming in a new class-action lawsuit that its nuts are misbranded to fool people into thinking they’re naturally smoked.

Harlem’s Leela O’Connor says shoppers are duped into thinking the nuts are roasted over a real wood fire, when in reality, they’re just doused with liquid smoke.

The almonds’ packaging, “emblazoned on a red banner, with orange edges, evocative of fire,” made her picture a smokehouse or the burning of hardwoods in nature, she claimed in her Manhattan Supreme Court filing against the company.

O’Connor, 48, felt cheated when the fine print revealed an ingredient called “natural hickory smoke flavor,” she claimed. 3

“Natural hickory smoke flavor is another name for the ‘quasi-toxic’ additive, ‘liquid smoke,’

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