Irritating calorie anomalies from food manufacturers

nooboots

This is very annoying.

I have got some stuffed mushrooms from Lidl for me tea.

On the packet it says that per 100g, they are 195 calories. However on the very same panel it says that the calories per half pack (102g) is 199 but the pack contains 250g, although as I write this I realise I have not weighed it, so it might be that the pack size is wrong.

But that is very irritating. I plan to have 2 with some salad so luckily I have the calories to spare but as I took notice only of the 'per half pack' bit (when I bought them) I assumed there was about 400 in the whole pack. Now it would appear that its 500. Quite misleading.

I will just have to overestimate and assume its 500.

How do you ever trust what the manufacturer says?

cwolfman13

nooboots wrote: »

This is very annoying.

I have got some stuffed mushrooms from Lidl for me tea.

On the packet it says that per 100g, they are 195 calories. However on the very same panel it says that the calories per half pack (102g) is 199 but the pack contains 250g, although as I write this I realise I have not weighed it, so it might be that the pack size is wrong.

But that is very irritating. I plan to have 2 with some salad so luckily I have the calories to spare but as I took notice only of the 'per half pack' bit (when I bought them) I assumed there was about 400 in the whole pack. Now it would appear that its 500. Quite misleading.

I will just have to overestimate and assume its 500.

How do you ever trust what the manufacturer says?

I would just use the "per 100 grams" number and ignore such things as "per half a pack" and such. If you weigh it, you don't have to overestimate anything.

nooboots

I know what you mean but it makes me distrust what they're printing overall, which is what I meant.