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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, there's absolutely nothing wrong with using brand names in a recipe. The only thing you couldn't do is to sell your own products and use someone else's trademarked name to market them. Eg, you could publish a recipe book in which you use Philadelphia cheese in a recipe, but you couldn't call your recipe book "The Philadelphia Cheese Cookbook", because that would be trademark violation.
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Harry,
According to US trademark laws, you have to have permission to use the brand names in a cookbook. Yes, I looked this up.
Now yes, I could say in a book that I had a Philadelphia Cream Cheese Cheesecake with a Coca-Cola. (That is fair use.)
On the ingredients there are two reasons, one is lack of permission and two is customer service.
They don't want their products put in a bad light.
That depends on the book. I know you can't do 69 fun things to do with Jell-o in the bedroom. You better not even have Jell-O in the book.
Fair use with trademarks refers strictly to "you can have your character use a name brand product" and cookbooks are a different story.
That is because you are telling the reader to use a certain product.
Now it may be different in the UK.