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[+] -17 points 2 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    The "family size" lasagna is about 1400 Calories total. I think it's reasonable to say that's 2 adult servings, but Stouffer's says it's 5.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah if that’s 5 servings, assuming three meals per day, that’s 840 calories per day. That’s not healthy, even for non-Americans.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You're supposed to have a diverse diet. Mac and cheese, broccoli, a pork chop, some fruit. Its so weird that people keep narrowing their diet, globally. We're monkeys that are supposed to be eating many different things.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They usually put a picture on the box of a 'serving suggestion' where the product is on a plate with a bunch of other things. So it's five servings if each serving is a quarter of a full meal.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    I'm sure that's their excuse, but I think most people buying and heating a frozen lasagna are doing it because of time and effort, so it's about on par with cereal companies calling their sugar pellets "part of a balanced breakfast"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I have no idea why we are even pretending servings have anything to do with what you're supposed to eat. "Popcorn Perfect Butter Blast" has "0 fat, 0 calories" while being literally just oil i.e. pure fat because they divided 150g of it into 450 servings as if the average person i s individually buttering each piece of popcorn. Tictacs are pure sugar and round down to 0 calories and 0 sugar. I've seen cookies with 1/2 a cookie for the serving size. Legally they are supposed to reflect "typical consumption patterns" but it's more like "the smallest portion the FDA will let us get away with".

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