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[–] 128 points 1 week ago (26 children)

Aren't the serving sizes intentionally small so they can get away with saying that stuff has less sugar?

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  • [–] 66 points 1 week ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Nutrients should always be listed in pr 100g or in percent (effectively the same).

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  • 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

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I saw a wrapped item that did the opposite, which was weird. It was a pack of 3 pieces and a serving was 4.

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  • 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.

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    [–] 42 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    It's the recommended serving sizes that are out of touch with reality.

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    [–] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Half my diet was stopping eating peanut butter. The other half was drinking less. Helth

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Peanut butter is delicious but it's basically the neutron star of food calories! Makes me sad.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    It's not me that's out of touch with reality, peanut butter jar.

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    [–] 25 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You guys get multiple servings from a jar?

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    [–] 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    It is rough that many types of peanut butter contain the sugar content they do. Really deceptive with how significant it builds up to being once put into perspective. I encourage y'all to try plain peanut butter, just nuts and salt. Gonna be a slightly different experience, but the peanut intensity is just so much greater, and man its much healthier.

    Speaking from experience, as I am actively eating it now.

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    [–] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    A serving size of peanut butter is one.

    One spoon.

    One inch.

    One jar.

    etc.

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    [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    I'm not out of touch, those lying fucks trying to obscure the calories are at fault

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The serving size is what I snack on while I'm making my peanut butter sandwich.

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    [–] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    That’s a European serving. The rest of the jar is one Texan serving.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    "serving size" is a BS scam. it's "whatever amount so the calories look OK"...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    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

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    [–] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    That 2 tablespoon serving shows me that i regularly eat 4 servings per sammich.

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    [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)
  • This is the one of the top signs that we're living in a simulation.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I put like 10x this on some graham crackers last night 😬

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