I hate unclear packaging nutrition!

yirara

So I got a free meal package at my supermarket. It consists of 175gr dry pasta, 40gr herbs and 66gr tomato sauce.

Nutritional info available as:
Calories per 100gr unprepared (33gr of each, or 100gr of 286gr total ingredients?)
Calories per 100gr prepared product based on recipe
Calories per portion based on recipe, 2-3 portions in package

There are 3 different recipes on the package, with very different ingredients and either 225gr lean mince, or 300gr lean or not lean mince. Yeah right. How is something like this acceptable?

lemurcat2

I'd go with 100 g of 286 g total unprepared ingredients (although likely estimate the cals separately to make sure that number matches up reasonably), but yes, that's ridiculously confusing.

yirara

lemurcat2 wrote: »

I'd go with 100 g of 286 g total unprepared ingredients (although likely estimate the cals separately to make sure that number matches up reasonably), but yes, that's ridiculously confusing.

That's what I'll do. The pasta will be roughly 350kcal per 100gr, and another roughly 50 cal for the rest might be reasonable. But yeah, why do companies do this? To be particularly unhelpful?!? I hardly ever buy such things because I might not want to use all of the sauce or herbs, or use my own.

Lietchi

Luckily we don't have many foods here with those kinds of labels, usually they're much clearer. But I have gotten the occasional bad surprise, such as a packet of curry paste that only specifies nutritional info per 100gr 'as prepared'. But as prepared is a whole recipe with rice, chicken, oil, Thai wok vegetables (whatever that means) and coconut milk. And fresh pineapple and mango are mentioned in the recipe steps, but not the recipe ingredients. Ludicrous and I'm never buying that product again

springlering62

And I hate when Amazon and it’s various sellers don’t post their blinking’ nutrition labels.