Aren’t the serving sizes intentionally small so they can get away with saying that stuff has less sugar?
Smaller portion = less sugar, fat, salt, calories etc… If I remember correctly a few states have addressed making unrealistic portion sizes for the label as making misleading claims.
In the EU (probably in the rest of europe too) you must have a per 100 gram (you can have bullshit “portions” too if you want to, but the “per 100 gram” must be there).
How the hell do you americans compare different brands??
Nutrients should always be listed in pr 100g or in percent (effectively the same).
Honestly do both and also per container and volume. Sometimes you care about absolute nutritional value, so you go on serving size or container, and sometimes you want to compare between two different things, so you use % mass or per 100 ml
As it is the in the EU
Tic-tacs are 94% sugar. A serving of tic-tacs is 1 tic-tac, which is just under half a gram. The FDA considers less than half a gram of sugar in a serving to be negligible and not required to be listed.
In other words, a product that is 94% sugar is legally sugar-free.
Wtf peanut butter you get into that’s got sugar?
Looked into it, could not find a peanut butter jar whose nutritional facts did not have sugar. Most common amount was 3g per serving.
Serving size was 2 tablespoons, or 32 grams. That doesn’t actually sound that unreasonalsble for a pb&j to me.
Any excuse to put corn into everything. Otherwise US farmers might have to go back to growing diverse crops instead the environmentally destructive monocrops. Won’t you think think of the investors?
Monocropping is destructive, corn is fine.
Corn is a monoculture
Three sisters companion planting begs to differ. Any plant is a monoculture if you plant it alone, and isn’t if you don’t.
Yes. And corn is not 3 plants.
We’re talking about corn. Just corn. Not 3 sisters. Not multiculture. Just corn.
I’m just trying to point out that it doesn’t make sense to classify a plant as a monoculture because monoculture is a planting style that can be applied to any plant, and any plant can also be planted as part of a polyculture.
They are almost always 1 oz (28g).
But, individually packaged stuff does tend to pull bullshit like “1 serving=half a bottle of soda”
Peanut butter is probably going to be fine though
I saw a wrapped item that did the opposite, which was weird. It was a pack of 3 pieces and a serving was 4.
Probably to hit some magic number:
Contains 10 g of protein per serving!!*
*Serving size 10 kg
Tic tacs have a serving size of less than a gram so they can claim 0g of sugar.
Only in America. Always thought that was a weird law.
As someone who, if anything, wants to gain weight, this has the inverse effect for me. Peanut butter is great because it’s so dense with calories. (I try to avoid sugar though, but I don’t think peanut butter has much added sugar, but I’ll have to check next time I have some.)
I know I’m in the minority though. I’m a 6ft tall man who weighs ~125-130lb. I was stuck at 120 for a decade or more, and only recently have put on a couple more pounds. I don’t have an eating disorder or anything, but I just struggle to put on weight, so my serving sizes personally for peanut butter are way higher than average.
Yeah well fuck you
Just FYI, I’m not sure if this is a joke or not, but it’s not appreciated. I’ve had issues in the past, and still do some, about feeling too skinny. This was not me bragging, and I’ve gotten it a lot in the past that people treat it as something good, while I struggle with it. Would you say the same to an overweight person who is trying to not be overweight?
Suggested serving sizes have never been realistic. Manipulated by the manufacturer to make us think the food is lower in calories than it actually is.
In reality we all serve ourselves a fifth of a jar. List THOSE calories on the label please.
I think these things should at least have the total calories also listed, and not just from multiplying the (frequently rounded down) serving size calories.
Yeah ‘serving size: three jelly beans’ or ‘one Oreo cookie’ are not realistic even for people who don’t actually binge them.
Peanut butter typically has a serving size of one or two tablespoons. That’s entirely reasonable.
No that’s not reasonable wtf
Maybe for someone with a peanut allergy. The rest of us are out here using cups.
Cup rationing virgin vs. Litre chugging Chad
It’s the recommended serving sizes that are out of touch with reality.
Damn personal size potato chip bag said 2.5 servings!
A single serving was like 6 chips!
Yeah, it should be illegal to list serving sizes that disconnected from reality. They should be MANDATED to have the first column list the nutrition information for the container as a whole, and then let them put whatever ridiculous lie, but it should only be allowed in a second column, that I can ignore after seeing the first column that shows what the container actually contains.
I don’t know how they do it elsewhere, but here in New Zealand, they put “per 100g” measurements on the labels which are really helpful.
Everything in the US is a scam.
In the U.S. they use deception to make it unclear how many servings are in a container.
And they’ll do this in multiple different ways. They’ll do things like selling you a single candy bar and claiming that it has like 8 different servings, but the amount that each serving is supposed to be isn’t set by any standard, so one company may have the serving be a whole bag, one may be half a bag, one may be like 1/4.7 of a bag(and yes, they’ll literally say there are 4.7 settings in a bag).
And they might sell you an teeny tiny individual bag of chips and claim that a serving is like 1.87 chips.
I bought a snack food a while back, and it was a very small container, but the nutrition information was listed deceptively to imply that it had 180 calories. In the store, the bag was next to multiple similar foods that all had roughly the same health information and were all about 200 calories. I am health conscious and I checked the calories and saw that it had 180 calories. So I tried it, and I liked it, and bought it fairly regularly for about two months(and by that, I mean about once a week).
After about two months, I happened to notice that the serving size listed for this product wasn’t the same as the other foods next to it on the shelves, but that instead the serving size was about 1/3 the serving size of the similar products. I found out I’d been eating 540 calories per bag, when literally all of the similar products on the shelf next to it had 200 calories per whole bag. The servings for the others were one per bag, but for this product, there was no indication that the bag wasn’t a single serving.
And I wish that they’d use SI units, but they don’t.
People in the U.S. have trouble searching for information for the nutritional value of the food, and companies intentionally lie, trick, and deceive, and then some are also very direct in making things completely ridiculous.
Half my diet was stopping eating peanut butter. The other half was drinking less. Helth
Oh you sunuvabitch!
Peanut butter is delicious but it’s basically the neutron star of food calories! Makes me sad.
I’ll do more pushups before I eat less peanut butyerm calories ain’t bad if you’re using them!
15 ml of natural peanut butter equals about 200 pushups. You’re gonna be ripped!
Given that the most typical use is spreading it on a slice of bread, I’ll argue, no I’m not out of touch, everyone else is. When the “serving size” can’t fill the expected use case, it’s not the consumer that’s wrong
If it’s anything but the entire jar, it’s wrong.
It’s not me that’s out of touch with reality, peanut butter jar.
We would like to remind you that your peanut butter jar will never talk back to you and, in fact, cannot speak. In the event that your peanut butter jar does speak, we urge you to eat its contents immediately and dispose of the jar responsibly. Please recycle.
I’m in touch with my peanut butter jar
Remember, a peanut butter jar does not have a flared base.
