How do store brands get so close to name brand?

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Do they have food scientists just guessing and checking with taste testers? Or do they know the exact recipe somehow and just tweak it to avoid lawsuits? Or do big box stores require name brands to hand over their recipes as part of a contract to shelf their brand along with their own store brand? Do the name brands try to keep it a secret but they keep getting bested? I have no idea how this works.

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Fun fact: a lot of the times these products are made _by the exact same company_ and distributed with different names.

Past that, food products do have the ingredients listed and a lot of the time it’s not that hard to figure out. Plus a lot of the time the taste isn’t _exactly_ the same. It’s not that hard to get to “close enough”.

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