Do you trust fast food nutrition on their websites?

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  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    Zedeff wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    I trust fast food nutritional information more than I trust restaurant nutritional information. The reason is that fast food margins are very very thin, they *have* to get close and consistent to their defined servings, and the food products themselves are far more standardized.

    100% agreed.

    For the poster that said that fast food workers aren't weighing everything and you could end up with more food than advertised, I guess this is true, but you'd be at least equally likely to end up with less food for the same reason. You get a few extra fries, a touch less mayonnaise on the burger, the drink isn't topped up all the way... is that more or less calories than advertised?

    It's a mean. Log it that way. This week's fast food might be over, next week's might be under but they'd vary by fairly little and in the end it's a wash/

    Haha yeah. I had a theory that the best way to get close to the mean (advertised calorie value) was to have a higher sample size, ie eat a specific fast food meal a lot of times :bigsmile:
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    _tierachanel wrote: »
    Occasionally I will enjoy fast food and always log what I eat. I get my information off the restaurants website. Do you trust that information? It bothers me to think I could be thinking the calories are "this" but really is "that". Like, the small fry I ordered may have been more closer to a medium..

    Do you know a better way to get a more accurate count of calories? Scale? Just wanted to see what you guys think.

    I don't really, and I believe most restaurants underestimate calories. I usually overestimate to account for any error.
  • dragonmaster69
    dragonmaster69 Posts: 131 Member
    I swear every time I get French fries from Burger King and weigh them at home, somehow they are always the exact weight listed (143g I believe). Okay, okay, maybe not exact but the listed weight or very close to it.
  • MysticRealm
    MysticRealm Posts: 1,264 Member
    I don't eat out all that often, so I trust the website's nutritional info. And if it doesn't have any, I trust my wild quesstimations.

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