Nutritional Facts in the US just plain suck.
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, September 7th, 2013 at 09:17 PM (2680 Views)
Threw in about a dish-sized personal pizza for dinner today. Since I've begun to exercise more in an effort to get into better shape, I decided to look at the nutritional information.
Calories, 280.
Servings... 4.
Because we all know when you're hungry, 1/4th of a dish-sized pizza will make you not feel hungry at all for a good chunk of the day. Nope.
I can understand this for stuff that, generally, should not be eaten all at once - if you eat Oreos by the sleeve, then yes, it's down to idiocy. But even there, things are ridiculous. The nutrition facts are 140 calories, which doesn't sound too bad of course.
The catch? Serving size: THREE COOKIES.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but unless someone is on a very hardcore diet, even girls tend to want more than three Oreos.
What they need to do, if they pull this, is to restrict it to things that you generally shouldn't eat all at once, for example, a bag of sugar, or bottles of maple syrup. (Although...) Anything where a person is likely to eat more than the listed serving size, put it in individually-wrapped containers inside the larger box, or edit the nutritional information to reflect what is actually a general amount that one can assume that an average person would be most likely to consume when they eat.
(...Why did I turn into John Charles Daly?)