Confusion on counting

alliann25
alliann25 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
This may be a silly question but I need some help clearing something up. How is is it that something that has zero calories per serving can have calories when you have a little more than that serving. For example, 1 cup of coffee is 0 calories, but 1 1/2 cups has 4 calories. How does that work because I can't seem to get it to make sense in my head. 0 calories = 0 calories.

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  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    The numbers are rounded. If I have a food that's 10 calories for 100g but I only use 4g that would be 0.4 calories which MFP would round down to 0 calories.
  • BlueObsidian
    BlueObsidian Posts: 297 Member
    There's almost nothing that is calorie free (besides water). However, because of the regulations on nutritional information, many calorie counts can be rounded down to zero. Actually, almost all the NI on labels ends up being rounded.
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    I forget what the exact numbers are but if something has less than 5 calories per serving they can call it 0 calorie so a lot of manufacturers make sure their serving size fits the criteria to make it 0.
  • rockerbabyy
    rockerbabyy Posts: 2,258 Member
    I forget what the exact numbers are but if something has less than 5 calories per serving they can call it 0 calorie so a lot of manufacturers make sure their serving size fits the criteria to make it 0.
    exactly this.
    which is why I Cant Believe Its Not Butter spray can claim 0 calories per serving, but theres something like 900 calories in the whole bottle.

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