HELP! this food label is WAY confusing

So annoying that they include the nutrition info for "unpopped". Who is eating raw kernels and then licking the salt and butter from the bag? Just use the popped column.

For each cup of popped popcorn you eat you consume 35 calories.

Yes, exactly....And if you eat the whole bag which is 2.5 servings (10 cups of popped corn) then the whole bag is 350 calories...

The more I look at this the more I get confused...:huh:

Right

So there's this thing called MFP?

You can create a new food, add all the information for a known serving size (like, I don't know 35g?), then once it's in the database, you can change the serving size to anything you want and it works out the calories, carbs, protein, fats and micronutrients for you!

It's amazing!

I know that some kernels don't end up popping, but I'd rather go with the unpopped calculation (if I'm going to eat the whole bag) than the popped calculation since the kernels will be uniform to measure 2 tbsp. whereas popped popcorn is so irregular to pack into cup volumes. It's my preference to err on the side of the higher calorie estimate rather than the lower one, so I'd go with 425 calories/bowl instead of 350 calories/bowl if I was logging this myself. Thank goodness MFP will do the math for everything else since we've all clearly seen my attempt here!

okay, hoping this works (glad I'm not the only one challenged with posting photos for the first time!)

If you look under the serving size at the top of the box it states (makes about 4 cups popped). Then go to the "Amount Per Serving," it states "1 Cup Popped," look below and it is 35 calories. So, there are about 4 cups of popped popcorn per bag. Take the 4 cups popped and multiply it by the 35 calories for 1 Cup Popped and you get 140 calories per bag. 4 x 35 = 140. The calorie count of 170 is for unpopped popcorn. It seems like all the microwave popcorn boxes are just as screwed up. I don't know why they have to make things so confusing. Hope this helps.

The perfect explanation, great work...was everyone else ignoring the, "makes about 4 cups popped", line? That is the popped yield of the whole bag!!! To those thinking that it would make 10 cups of popcorn just think about what that would look like.

I have measured it out and it is about 10 cups popped! Your missing the 2.5 servings per bag. Each serving has four cups so that equals ten...

okay, hoping this works (glad I'm not the only one challenged with posting photos for the first time!)

If you look under the serving size at the top of the box it states (makes about 4 cups popped). Then go to the "Amount Per Serving," it states "1 Cup Popped," look below and it is 35 calories. So, there are about 4 cups of popped popcorn per bag. Take the 4 cups popped and multiply it by the 35 calories for 1 Cup Popped and you get 140 calories per bag. 4 x 35 = 140. The calorie count of 170 is for unpopped popcorn. It seems like all the microwave popcorn boxes are just as screwed up. I don't know why they have to make things so confusing. Hope this helps.

The perfect explanation, great work...was everyone else ignoring the, "makes about 4 cups popped", line? That is the popped yield of the whole bag!!! To those thinking that it would make 10 cups of popcorn just think about what that would look like.

Wrong. That makes absolutely no sense.

Amount per serving is the title of the table. The two serving size options are listed to the right, with their corresponding nutrition values underneath.

Above is listed the convention ratio for unpopped to popped. 35g popped = four cups popped.

If the serving sizes were the same, the nutrition underneath would be the same?

So annoying that they include the nutrition info for "unpopped". Who is eating raw kernels and then licking the salt and butter from the bag? Just use the popped column.

Who cooks a load of food to then measure out one portion?

I think because it's bagged, you have to pop the whole bag....otherwise, yea just pop your own kernels...

I eat the Pop Weaver brand if you can find that. It actually has the nutrition information for the whole bag on there. Or you could switch to the smaller single serve bags to make it easier.

My youngest son and I were talking about it this morning. Why do they even put the nutrition info for the unpopped kernels on there? I mean does anyone really grab a bag of popcorn, open it up, and just eat the seeds?

what about eating what you want and saving the rest for another time? I mean, that is what I do, per se. Except I buy it pre-popped, already bagged. Also, though, I don't eat the butter and salty kind either. Maybe movie butter popcorn tastes different if it is stored as popped? :shrug:

okay, hoping this works (glad I'm not the only one challenged with posting photos for the first time!)

If you look under the serving size at the top of the box it states (makes about 4 cups popped). Then go to the "Amount Per Serving," it states "1 Cup Popped," look below and it is 35 calories. So, there are about 4 cups of popped popcorn per bag. Take the 4 cups popped and multiply it by the 35 calories for 1 Cup Popped and you get 140 calories per bag. 4 x 35 = 140. The calorie count of 170 is for unpopped popcorn. It seems like all the microwave popcorn boxes are just as screwed up. I don't know why they have to make things so confusing. Hope this helps.

The perfect explanation, great work...was everyone else ignoring the, "makes about 4 cups popped", line? That is the popped yield of the whole bag!!! To those thinking that it would make 10 cups of popcorn just think about what that would look like.

Wrong. That makes absolutely no sense.

Amount per serving is the title of the table. The two serving size options are listed to the right, with their corresponding nutrition values underneath.

Above is listed the convention ratio for unpopped to popped. 35g popped = four cups popped.

If the serving sizes were the same, the nutrition underneath would be the same?

Actually, you make no sense, "35g popped = four cups popped", must be a "European thing". How about "convention ratio"? I've never heard of that one and I've had a lot of math classes. Did you mean conversion rate? And your last sentence, was a statement, not a question. Right? Hey, I do love the metric system though. Now down to business.

Despite all of that, I know what you are trying to say. And I admit that I was wrong with 4 cups to a bag statement. If I would have stayed with my original comment of "1 cup of popped popcorn consumed = 35 calories" I would have been okay.

According to that label, a full bag of that popped popcorn equals 10 cups of popped popcorn which equals 350 calories. If you want to eat the whole bag before you pop it, you will consume 425 calories.

However...

I went to the website and it had the nutrition for that specific popcorn being 170 calories for 4 cups of popped popcorn (the one in the picture must have been incorrect) and there is 2.5 servings, which makes it 425 calories for the bag. The same if it were not popped. My advice would be to eat it popped, it is the same caloric value and it taste better.

350 calories in a bag (10 cups in a bag x 35 cal per cup popped)

Why is everyone using the unpopped calories? Some of the butter remains in the bag so unless you lick the bag...just my thoughts

lol I got this... Why not just buy 100 calorie mini bags...lol... alot easier. That box is way confusing. I think most who buy movie theater butter popcorn big bags don't really look at calories... I get 100 cal bags and use spray parkay to give it butter.

It's 350.

One bag popped has 10 cups (serving size= 4 cups x 2.5 Servings per bag)

10 Cups x 35 Calories per cup = 350 Calories.

Problem solved.

We actually air pop popcorn right in the microwave. Just put a few tablespoons of kernels into a glass bowl, cover with something (parchment paper and some string, or a plate) and pop. Takes five minutes in our microwave, which is a little longer, but it includes the time to heat the bowl. Some people seem to have success doing it in a brown paper bag too.

I'm not usually one to complain about the chemicals in foods, but microwaving plastic is basically always a bad idea. Of course, the biggie in popcorn was diacetyl, which most manufactuers have removed from their formulation, but it's still some pretty nasty stuff. Plus, doing it yourself is SO cheap, and you can make all kinds of awesome flavors!