ASDA Reference intake serving size calories vs weight and calories

Zeuiodh

Hello,

So ASDA have two sections for calories,
The first is how many per half of the meal so via serving size.

It also has the total weight of the food.

In the second it has the nutritional value per 100grams, so generally multiplying this by the weight tonget total calories.

But the total calories are difffent between these two. Which is the correct amount, calories per 100g fines 535? Or the serving size calories times 2 ?

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kommodevaran

It's impossible to say. Ask them.

kommodevaran

No, I think the discrepancy stems from this: The whole pack, uncooked, weighs 535 grams. When you cook it, water evaporates. The calories in the whole thing stays the same, but the calories per 100 grams, increases. So the amount you actually eat, when you eat the whole pack, is less than 535 grams, varying, that's why the use of "typical", but definitely less - the values per 100 grams, are for the cooked meal. So you can't multiply the weight of the uncooked meal with the calories of 1 g cooked food.

It's bad labeling, possibly misleading, definitely making it harder for consumers, but not wrong.

Zeuiodh

Thanks, for that, so the first image of the calories is the amount after it’s cooked which makes sense