Brand Name vs. Generic
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- What is the difference between brand name and generic products?
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Generic is cheaper means it tastes better for my wallet
preach sister
Perfect
This comment smooth af lol.
Taeyeon let me buy you food xD
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I find the placebo effect so fascinating.
I am not sure if placebo is a good thing or a bad thing.
Czesnek Still fascinating either way though.
Czesnek can be both good and bad
Ikr?
It's the brain, the most complex thing in the entire understandable Universe.
you my friend have obviously never had an off brand pop tart
That sounds terrible
I don't even like the brand name Pop Tarts.
Oh yeah. Wal-Mart ones taste like shit.
this is hella specific but save a lot off brand blueberry poptarts are the shit
NO ONE CARES off brand cereal is so salty too.
I got an ASAP Science ad for an ASAP Science vid. Really?
great job youtube
I got no ads because adblock
i got a Lays ad before this
Adi Sankar i got a walmart at xD
Adi Sankar I got a target ad
how quickly do you guys go though markers?
Ikr? 😂
do they use crayola brand markers or generic?
+Dolan Trimp you win
+Dolan Trimp doesn't matter. Both have the same nutrients 😏
+TheMrFloozies lol
At Save-A-Lot, I remember getting an Oreo knock off called "Creme Betweens" Lol
I bought Shreddies cereal knockoffs called 'malted wheaties'
+Aoa Tee How?
+denzal689 Oreos are a knockoff of Hydrox. :D
+jonas vader That sounds like a zelda boss.
Thats my pornstar name
Brand name are definitely different for many products. generic toilet paper feels like sandpaper. that's not the result of the placebo effect.
talkin bout food and medicine mostly
Well for food. generic brands are more likely to have HFCS which is allegedly unhealthy.
allegedly
no label is the best .plus math
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.
Generic Oreos NEVER compare to real Oreos
Yup, you don't poop the same.
YaNoAwantoMas, lol
iSuperDuper yhea u right
Kroger’s are really good . You really can’t tell them apart plus the fact they are half the price makes them a real winner .
for real, generic oreos have a chalky taste, but sometimes for some weird reason I feel like eating the generic ones more than the real ones
Let me guess
U use generic markers?
Random! 😂😂
You can see the brand name, dumbass.
LDR ElectricHue it was a joke, dumbass.
TOTALLY! I always knew the letter “u’ uses generic brands!
It would have said u uses think about it
Generic cereal be better than the brand name. Cocoa dyno bites and cinnamon toast crunchers >
Ayy lmao.
Don't forget the fruity Os and the honey bunny oats
lol tru
+LightEmUpHomie Wallmart Froot Loops are so much better.
kernel munch is great to
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.
well the fiat chrysler group owns/makes both ferrari's and fiats. Would you still argue that a fiat matches a ferrari in performance?
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.
Ugh, my dad thinks generic brands taste different than name brands, even though he buys off brand acetamimophen
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?
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.
Cathrine Lundqvist ....lol. This is exactly what I do. Start at the bottom and work my way up. And always the cheapest drugs.
Trust me. Theres a hige difference between Great Value oreos and regular oreos
+michaejackson4ever Sometimes there is due to secret recipes.
+michaejackson4ever I think Oreos are overrated *flies away*
+Blake Wolfington
The difference is in the white stuff ;)
+Blake Wolfington
(I was making an inappropriate joke, not making fun of your English. I probably will still die in a hole though.)
+Blake Wolfington
Oh you edited the comment. Now it's not funny :(
Name a fish that is made out of 2 sodium atoms
2 Na
lmfao
Oh same
tuna
+Hibah Mirza 2Na
Lol good luck getting 2 sodium atoms to bond.
kraft dinner and no name mac and cheese have a massive taste difference
AtlasInFlames IMO the Wegman's brand mac is better.
KD is by far superior.
Sherman Herritt Hmmmmm, you american ?
Sherman Herritt Your parents dropped you when you were a baby.
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.
So i guess ill be going to Aldi then
WooferJr shout out to the British mandem/galdem
Omar Barton aye London kid!!
@@DevilsChild222 In Australia then basically every one Coles and Woolies then there are two aldis
It’s in Texas too!
Lidls too.
Meh, Lays chips aren't even that good. They're too thin and very oily. Kettle is so much tastier.
But Kettle are not a generic brand. You could compare Kettle with Tyrells
kettle used to make really good chili chips but now they taste like a sweet anus and not very spicy at all :(
MetallicBlade kettle? Bruh, Walkers are best.
AlanDudyGam3rGuy But I only have Kettle and Tyrells where I live
MetallicBlade that's a lie
Who is here after watching Ryan's video (How to be ninja pt.2)
me hahaha
me
lol how is that connected
+Brahim Hax well I'm subscribed to other channels so awesomness tv and alex wasabi (and two others) uploaded after ryan and before asap
Lol hi hi :D
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).
Like prefer brand names.
Idc if it's brand name or generic, but I understand what you're saying.
I got knockoff pringles at Aldi and they are hard like a rock
Link on the end of video (Taste Test) directs to this video again.
Inception!
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+happy the youtube links have been broken lately. its a whole youtube crisis.
Are you telling me... those commercials are a lie?! I don't beleef it.
Beleef
+PictureFit *beleaf
Believe* And please tell me your kidding
PancakePuppy I was. That first comment needs to be send to YourGrammarSucks
+PancakePuppy you're
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.
I always use generic drugs
Youknow Idontknow that's drug addiction
Who really can afford name brand prescriptions? Especially if you don't have insurance 😂
it's so cool when drug stores actually have generic drugs, they don't where i live. greedy fuckers
"White's family homemade Crystal Meth"
Same, i cant remember the last time i bought Tylenol that wasn't generic. Always look at the active ingredient. Same goes for Nyquil, Advil, etc
Difference is, one charges you for air and the other doesn't -_-
btw it is just to protect the chips
*Imagine this video was sponsered by Aldi ;)*
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.
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!
Cocaine vs Crack Cocaine. Which one is better?
Yes
Cocaine
+Afrika Smith Crack rocks coated in powder cocaine
Logic, that's better than both!
Probably coke.
Is there a generic AsapSCIENCE channel? :D
Vsauce
minutephysics.
+TC TC LOOOOOOOOL
+TC TC
Haha
Checkout my channel.
It's depend on the formula and the way they made. A lot of time brand names made better products compare to generics
I tried Walmart potato chips. Never again.
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.
Why do we get stuffy noses and what happens to your body when u get one?
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.
I don't care what ANYONE says Heinz ketchup tastes better.
I see that pats logo avi
PATTY D
Uh... you'll care what i say young man! Now go to your room!
Due to that massive amount of sugar they add to it. Hello obesity.
it's a condiment bud, unless you're chugging it straight outta the bottle it's not gonna make you obese. what you're putting it on is the problem
PATTY D what? no! del monte catsup tastes better!
As a person who grew up with very little money I can say that no name brand foods usually has no difference. I still usually buy no name brand things.
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.
***** you're a silly person.
I don't know why, but I find it hilarious that he's using red Tic Tacs for the medicine part.
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.
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.)
Try saying that to oreo's vs great value cookies and cream
this is so painfully true
+Exterminate The Daleks All the Gods
And cheese nips vs cheeze it's.
+Exterminate The Daleks Are you kidding or
Abe Well Technically cheezits and cheese nips are BOTH brand named products
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
You should take into the account the quality of the ingredient
You guys should do " What happens during a Seizure"
I second that mate :)
The annotation over the Taste Test video name at the end of the video just takes me back to this video again.
They're doubling their views!!!! Haha
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
At least with a generic brand, you don't just get air instead of chips
Conclusion: generic and brand name chips will kill you equally fast.
But with less of a price!
His hand writing is so frikken perfect I'm so jelly
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
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
are you sure that was sugar
+MaryAngela Senter it better not be. I NEED SOME
The peanut butter catastrophe happened due to the actual peanut plants being contaminated, it had nothing to with the factory supplying them.
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).
Rhett and link have already did the tests
I never bought oreos.Give me likes for that!
No.
Yes
+Imxn Lovespie Thank you 😉
I've never bought ham.
Many many people haven't bought ham.
Religion mate. Also i also have never bought Oreos lol
L
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
I'm always buy a generic cereal that's taste 100% same as Kellogs, but cost HALF as much as Kellogs.
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.
98operate or 7-up and Sprite
can you guys make a video on why our stomach "growls" when we're hungry and what evolutionally influenced this
The Wal-Mart generic brand for chips is nasty.
My aunt got some great value cheddar cheese chips and they tasted like tree bark
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I probably shouldn't have put my essay off but this really helped! Thanks!
1:06 *Sodium Chloride*
I did this as my sixth grade science fair project
+Fiona Mayes Awesome!
+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.
loses*
I would do you as my sixth grade project
+Savage Cookie I want to see you do a science fair project
The Placebo effect is strong with this one.
Another great video ASAPScience keep it up
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.
I feel for food there is a difference but for medicine no difference
You are everywhere
Not with cereal. Most are made at the exact same factory.
+Youmuus lol I found you, AGAIN
I was gonna make a sodium joke, but decided against doing so.
+TheBoomshine Thank you for restraining yourself and not joining the horde
I once had a generic brand cool ranch chip. Not as good as Doritos at all.
Doritos are definitely a one of a kind chip. generic Doritos don't even come CLOSE to the name brand!!! I freaking 💖💖💖 Doritos!!!
Doritos cheese generic brand seem to be covered in much more cheese
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
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.
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.
all my friends never drink soda
+Its Jack your friends suck
I have always gotten Generic brands. Cheap and works great c:
ikr
stingy.
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
Aldi has the best food on the planet. Objective FACT
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.
Mark M And it's the same shit as the store brand. I can't taste the difference between Aldi eggs and grocery store eggs. But my wallet can.
Patrick shut up idiot
Patrick one time Aldi brand multi pack had branded food in it and the branded multi pack had Aldi brand stuff in it.
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
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.
i know someone who used to work in a fruit salad factory (or whatever you would call it) and they said that the exact same fruit was put into 2 different pots, ones for an expensive brand and ones for a value brand that cost 3 times less.
If generic products go through the same tests and regulations then why not they put their name on it. Is it the costs linked with trademark?
If they pass these tests then on whose name is the certification issued?
Brand Name products are more expensive simply because people are willing to pay for them.
+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
Ya but those big bags of generic cereal are much better than the tiny boxes with half inflated name brand bags
+Andrew Tickel couldn't agree more
This gives me a new perspective
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.
You can tell the difference between cheap cola and coca cola
+Northern Swole yeah I was about to say this. lol
so basically what you're saying is people are stupid ? yea I'd have to agree with that statement.
TnJcanodezo off brand cocacola isn't the same :(
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'.
jonskowitz but they are dumbass
As a recent graduate, I tend to gravitate towards cheaper generic stuff. It really is surprising how close some of these products can get to their name brand counterparts. A "party size" bag of Walmart potato chips costs less than a regular size bag of Lay's and they're actually pretty good. For some other items, though, I'll definitely stick to the name brand, like sodas. I like Pepsi and Vernor's and I haven't been able to find a cola or ginger ale to match those.
However when does brand matter?
Non food items! Have you ever had generic cheap toilet paper? Super thin and sometimes coarse.
omg ikr!😂😂😂 toilet paper brands matter!
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
hitlerious what is 2€ equal to?
google is your best friend
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.
Psychology ftw
+Andy Sendouw No. It's not. You can literally do this yourself. Stop trying to make science edgy and cool. It is neither.
+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.
NyteMunkey You sound like a kid trying too hard on the internet. The placebo affect is psychology by the way.
Lol "little guy". I'm done wasting energy on kids like you. Find something better to do on your spring break kid.
AsapScience is clearly the best science channel out there .
the reason i buy branded salt is because the container has this fancy holes that let me put just a bit on my food, and generic ones don't, and those who have it the holes are too small or too big or the space between them breaks off
I remember the Peter Pan peanutbutter problem, I used to always eat it and guess who got salmonella...
+Jimmy7780 The answer is you?
No name Yep :/
me
Anthony Sacarello lol ooooh ;)
Lmao me too
I LOVE KNOCK OFFS. I DUN CARE.
Also what is pain tolerance? Like myself inquires injuries often vs a person whom land paper cuts as work hazard have two different spectrums of life vs the difficulty
what is the name of the song that's the ad for this that goes "it's in your mind" !!!! it's amazing
Can you do GYM VS YOGA? Cuz i am always curious about this.
so for painkillers get the cheaper ones
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
I used to work at a grocery store and one time when I was stocking these cans of generic brand soup I found a can of campbells soup in the box