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[-] Thorry@feddit.org 303 points 1 week ago

In civilized countries the nutrition facts need to be stated in both serving size and 100 grams. This makes it easier to compare products with different serving sizes and also prevents bullshit like this.

[-] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 37 points 1 week ago

Serving size is generally speaking complete bullshit regardless. Per 100g is sufficient

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Serving size has a lot of use cases, especially when looking at things individually packaged or in separate units (cookies for example).

Per 100g has fewer use cases in my mind as I'm not a scale and have no idea how to break down most products into 100g.

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[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 83 points 1 week ago

Its a weird american thing I believe, since a serving size is so small that it counts as <1 calory.

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 68 points 1 week ago

Yup, the "serving size" nonsense is a US corporate lobbied loophole which basically allows them to put whatever they want on their nutrition information.

I wouldn't have expected anything else from the US "Corporations are people too" of A.

[-] jdr@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

EU has absurd serving size measurements too, but also 100g measurements

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 19 points 1 week ago

The 100g measurement is so good. Makes it extremely easy to compare foods and decide which one is healthier. Like if you see protein powder which is 31g sugar per 100g, and realise it's literally 31% sugar, maybe don't buy that one lol

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[-] toynbee@piefed.social 25 points 1 week ago

Supposedly this is why tic tacs, which are almost 100% sugar, can claim to be sugar free.

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 week ago

They don't claim to be sugar-free, at least not the ones made of sugar. Instead, they claim to have 0g of sugar per serving. That is a critical difference.

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[-] hhg@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago

Avocado oil should have 884 kcal per 100g, therefore one serving of 0.25g would be 2.21 kcal. Why is that allowed to be rounded to zero?

[-] Daedskin@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

It's rounded to the nearest multiple of 10; it could be up to 5 (exclusively), and could still be listed as 0. It's why so many lower-calorie products are listed with a zero-calorie serving size in the US. I'm not sure about the specifics of regulations — if any exist — on selecting serving sizes; this particular example feels a little fishy to me.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago

And legally, they are right. One serving is very, very small, and therefore, one serving is considered to have no [whatever].

Just like TicTacs. They are 100% sugar to a rounding error, but as the "serving size" is one TicTac, which weighs less than half a gram, it is legally considered "sugar free".

Which tells a lot about the real value of "legally".

[-] notastatist@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago

And who the fuck cares about calories in serving size?

What about a better standard like calories per 100g?

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Like Europe uses?

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[-] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 49 points 1 week ago

One thousand five hundred and thirty-two servings

[-] portifornia@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago

🎼 "525,600 servings - how do you measure a quarter-second spray?" 🎶 ~Rent, probably.

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[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

If it was only 1500 then I think it would have rounded to one calorie.

[-] False@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

The FDA let's calories under 5 round down to 0

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[-] Etterra@discuss.online 44 points 1 week ago

So according to this it has 884 calories per 100g. So 1g has 8.84 calories, and 1/4 of that has 2.2 calories.

So they can't even pretend to have rounded down to 0 from a fraction of a calorie. Apparently it's also loaded with saturated fats. Which tracks since it's, ya'know, oil.

[-] Briguy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

The FDA lets anything under 5 calories to be rounded down to 0. It's a scam

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[-] femmylemmy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

I could be wrong but I believe they can round to the nearest 5 calories.

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[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 41 points 1 week ago

It's zero calories per serving, of which there are over 1500 in that can. It's a rounding error. If each serving has say 0.2 calories, the whole can might contain 300.

Also, "1/4 second spray"

Are you using a fucking aerosol can of avocado oil? 🤨

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Sprays have their use cases for griddles and molds that need to be lubed.

Not my daily driver for fats but I don’t see the problem.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You must consider, the info here isn't random, it's legally required by the FDA or state regulator. They have to follow the guidelines for packaging labelling requirements precisely. When the serving size is very small, the numbers are misleading. But some manufacturers also use ridiculous serving sizes to fudge the numbers.

Thats why in Australia, they are required to publish two or three columns of data. Per Serving (which can be skipped if the item is clearly just one serving), per 100g (even if the whole thing is less than 100g net, it makes figureing out percentages easier) and sometimes per whole package.

I'm not going to eat 12 seperate portions over several days from this bag of chips just because it says that many on the bag. I know this. The manufacturer knows this. The regulator knows this. We all know I'm hoovering that bag clean in 20 minutes. So the manufacturer is forced to give me a number that is easily mathable so I can't hide the damage, even from myself.

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[-] betelplouf@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago

In Europe (or at least in France), it's mandatory to put the nutritionnal informations per 100g. It avoids that kind of stupid things

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[-] farmgineer@nord.pub 18 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's rounding. Under a certain amount, it just rounds to zero. No one is actually using the recommended serving size. There should be legal requirements to always provide the information for the full amount in the package/container/bottle/whatever as well next to the other values (some countries at least sometimes do this).

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In Australia, we have per serving and per 100g/ml/etc both on the packaging to make it clear

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago

EU as well. (the 100gr. is mandatory).

[-] farmgineer@nord.pub 11 points 1 week ago

Yeah, here in Japan as well. I think really enforcing realistic serving sizes (no one is going to accurately do 0.25s) in labeling would also help the US.

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[-] chunes@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

lmao, that's so shameless. Avocado oil is one of the most calorie-dense food in existence.

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[-] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

So $0 per serving, I can just get it for free, right?

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the miracle serving sizes. Similar to how tic-tacs are advertised as "low calorie" when they're basically flavored sugar.

[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Maybe the amount of calories and fat is too small for typical measuring methods to register anything above 1 given the serving size. Of course, I don't know how anyone can spray for 1/4 of a second with any close to accurate.

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[-] sunsofold@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

You, too, are 0 calories if we eat you in small enough bites.

[-] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

that's why it should say "calories per 100g" instead. no way i'm gonna just use 0.25g. that's like eating a single potato chip then putting the package away.

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