When are food labels going to change? Serving sizes?

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  • Ironandwine69
    Ironandwine69 Posts: 2,432 Member
    Why is this so important? Or important at all?
    If you want the serving size to be bigger, eat more than one serving. That's one of the reasons math is mandatory in school.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,278 Member
    I think it is important to have clear labelling - like everything in standard comparisons ie per 100g/per 100ml.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    paperpudding wrote: »
    I think it is important to have clear labelling - like everything in standard comparisons ie per 100g/per 100ml.

    Agreed - I don't care about someone else's suggested serving size, I'll eat as much of something as I like. I do like having an easy comparison though, and get annoyed with the imported products I get from the US without info per 100g or mL!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    edited July 2017
    Seriously though, did anyone really even read serving size before getting on MFP? I sure didn't. I just ate whatever amount I felt like having at the time (and still do). But yeah, having a reasonable idea of how many calories are in a reasonable portion size can be useful for most people (for things like chips or ice cream. For cookies, I see no reason why giving calories for 2 cookies and not just 1).

    That being said, the '3.5 servings' per bag or whatever needs to stop. Give me the calories for the whole bottle and the whole cookie... not half. I do agree that 100g means nothing to the average American though.
  • rainbowbow
    rainbowbow Posts: 7,490 Member
    edited July 2017
    Francl27 wrote: »
    Seriously though, did anyone really even read serving size before getting on MFP? I sure didn't. I just ate whatever amount I felt like having at the time (and still do). But yeah, having a reasonable idea of how many calories are in a reasonable portion size can be useful for most people (for things like chips or ice cream. For cookies, I see no reason why giving calories for 2 cookies and not just 1).

    That being said, the '3.5 servings' per bag or whatever needs to stop. Give me the calories for the whole bottle and the whole cookie... not half. I do agree that 100g means nothing to the average American though.

    I really think it means nothing to the average american because you guys still use innacurate measurements like cups (dry), cups (wet), tablespoons, etc. instead of weighing ingredients like pretty much everywhere else in the world. Hopefully as new generations are born and raised they're being introduced to the metric system and learning this in schools.

    I hope one day america (and the UK) can be done with miles, pounds, stones, cups, pints, and all the other ridiculousness. :pensive:


    edit: p.s. i am an american living overseas by the way, and i can't tell you how much it's taken me getting used to things like temperature (how hot is it outside, how hot is the oven, etc.), judging speed in a car in Km/h, trying to make recipes without using "cups" as a measurement, etc. I've grown to resent the entire backwards *kitten* system i grew up learning just because it's made it sooo hard to learn the new one. Oh, and don't get me started on how less impressive my lifts sound in kg now. :lol:
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    I eat how much of any given thing I want, I don't eat what someone else says a serving size is. It's just math. They should put 1 and 100g amounts on there and leave it at that.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    Seriously though, did anyone really even read serving size before getting on MFP?

    Yes. I often ignored them, but I read labels and saw the servings sizes.
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    I always hate the cookie labels that say the serving size is 2 cookies, wth.........who eats only 2 cookies besides a child under 5.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    emmydoodles83 wrote: »
    I always hate the cookie labels that say the serving size is 2 cookies, wth.........who eats only 2 cookies besides a child under 5.

    Better than half a cookie...
  • ritzvin
    ritzvin Posts: 2,860 Member
    There are times when you can't weigh your food (at least not without looking nuts, like say at a restaurant or event), so listings in visible-to-the-eye measurements (ie volume or approximate number of) can be extremely useful to have. I would love listings on MFP and food packages in cubic inches/centimeters for things like cheese (that I typically only eat at dance venue snack platters -- I actually have a cheat sheet post-it'd into a notepad for cheese).

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  • Luna3386
    Luna3386 Posts: 888 Member
    I haven't heard of this. I don't think it will change anything.

    If people are truly ignorant of serving sizes, nutrition information, etc, changing the label probably won't educate them.

    But I think most choose to ignore. I mean, are people going to mcd's 6 times a week (for example) and not aware that it's not health food? I'm guessing they don't care.

    I personally plan out my food on a day to day basis. I don't always have enough calories for even a serving so I log it per gram.
  • rainbowbow
    rainbowbow Posts: 7,490 Member
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    emmydoodles83 wrote: »
    I always hate the cookie labels that say the serving size is 2 cookies, wth.........who eats only 2 cookies besides a child under 5.

    Better than half a cookie...

    to be fair, they are large cookies.

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