Why YSK: consuming too much sodium can lead to high blood pressure, increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke. In my country (USA), the average daily sodium intake is over 3,300mg, exceeding the recommended maximum of 2,300mg. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends an even lower maximum of 2,000mg.

Also: with the rising cost of food, being mindful of additives that increase sell weight is important.

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[–] 26 points 3 months ago* (18 children)

Also, at least in my area, I believe there is a mislabeling scam going on. At least twice now I have bought boneless skinless chicken thighs from 2 different grocery stores (different chains) and the weight has been like ~15% lower than advertized.

Like a package of chicken thighs labeled at 3.11lbs (1.4kg) actually weighed roughly 2.67lbs (1.2kg), 14% less. One labeled at 2.49lbs (1.13kg) actually weighed roughly 2.1lbs (0.95kg), 16% less.

Some of that may be accounted for by the absorbant pad sucking out some of that excess liquid they pump in, but it shouldn't be so radically different

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    You can weigh it with the pad to check

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    You'd have to know the dry weight of the pad to do that.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Meat has a water content, and water is lost by evaporation between the packagers and the person who brings it home.
    If you care about this, buy from a butcher who weighs at the time of sale.

    Or, wash your chicken and watch the weight magically increase.

    This is another Tiktok "scandal".

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It's not just meat though. And sometimes they are way off to the point it is definitely not within reason. A good one seen was the prepackaged mini hams that are airtight. They were weighed and basically 30% off or more from the label the store slapped on them.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Again, if you believe every "scandal" on tiktok and YouTube...people fake this shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I have only seen 1 person do it and I am not on tik tok or ever used it before. I guess theres a chance they are lying, but they have gotten several suppliers to admit to issues they reported and were corrected. I would like to think I am good at weeding out fake videos and they just dont seem like it, but there is always a chance.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    It's really not. The weight determines the price and added water raises the cost, you are essentially paying meat prices for water content. In the EU there are strict rules against that. A meat producer has to declare the amount of added water if it's above 2%. Of course there are companies which fraudulenty go above that without declaring it. My point is, that's illegal for a reason

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yeah, like I said I'm not certain. And I have since seen random people circulating this on various social media, but I noticed it myself first. At 15%, it could just be water loss, but also it could be something more than that. Mainly it's just an annoyance.

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