Wrongly labeled foods!

So this is kind of the same, but different. I scanned the barcode right off a bottle of Blue Diamond Natural Almonds - Dark Chocolate last night, and it showed up on my MFP as some kind of flavored cashews with twice as many calories. How does this happen?!?! Wasn't even the right nut!! Haha.

I definitely agree. As for the diet soda, I doubt there's actually much in it since it's nearly all chemicals that your body can't process. But I have noticed since I cut out my diet coke, I don't eat nearly as much. I've read before that it has an effect on your brain not feeling full.

Wha? Diet sodas are 96% water. Pretty sure your body knows how to process water. The rest of the ingredients are various proteins and minerals that your body digests by the truckload (figuratively speaking) in all the food you eat every day. There's absolutely nothing in a diet soda that you don't already eat.

Ingredients in diet coke:
Carbonated water, colour (caramel E150d), sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame-K), natural flavourings including caffeine, phosphoric acid, citric acid. Contains a source of phenylalanine (not a good thing btw)

Cherry diet coke:
Carbonated water, natural flavourings including caffeine, colour (caramel E150d), citric acid, sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame-K), phosphoric acid, acidity regulator (E331), tartaric acid. Contains a source of phenylalanine.


If you're getting any of these besides the carbonated water (and caffiene). in your daily diet, that's not good for your health.

Again, to each their own, but that's how I feel

Hmmm.

Aspartame - Aspartic Acid and Phenylalanine, both amino acids, phenylalanine is essential for life, aspartic acid is made by the human body.

Citric Acid - Well gee, our entire human metabolism runs on something called the "Citric Acid cycle," so I'm not sure how long you'd live with no citric acid in your system. Also, oranges, lemons, grapefruits, limes, but I'm guessing you don't eat CITRUS fruits, either, right?

Phospohoric acid - Well Phosphorus is a major structural component of DNA and RNA, so again, good luck staying alive without it.

Acesulfame-K - a Potassium salt. Yeah, you need potassium to live also.

So uh yeah. If you're not getting those things in other foods you eat, you won't be alive. But hey, go ahead and keep on with your fear mongering.

Your logic is completely flawed, along with your science.
Citric Acid Cycle/Krebs cycle provides its own buffering systems.
Phosphoric acid and phosphorus are not the same thing.
Citric Acid has been proven to tear down the animal in your teeth and affect your stomach negatively. Soda, with a pH of 3 is not healthy.
Aspartame: Look at the research.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/96/6/1249.short

The fact that taking each ingredient and matching it up to body components on a google search is ludicrous. As you can develop toxicity with vitamins, you can build toxicity with salts and inorganic and organic compounds.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT! Calories don't matter if you are feeding yourself with horrible food choices. One person wrote that she loves and eats heaps of bacon. Only worried about the fat?! What about all the nitrates and more importantly, it is not a healthy food choice.
If calories were all that mattered, nutrition facts would not be required. Use MFP to your advantage and track your carbs, fat, protein and also your vitamins and minerals if you want to be healthy and lose weight effectively.

Citric acid negatively affects your body? Is that why lemons are always being pushed as super healthy?

And phosphoric acid IS phosphorus. Without phosphorus, there would be no phosphoric acid.

Also, my teeth don't have animals. I think the word you're looking for is enamel, and tooth enamel is worn down by just about every food a human being eats, tomatoes and strawberries being particularly vicious examples.

The pH of your stomach is 1, so a soda with a pH of 3 would actually dilute it if anything.

And finally, there are 100 times more nitrates in leafy greens than your get from bacon.

That 0 calorie spray butter? It's actually 8 calories per spray. The government has some kind of guidelines where if it's under x, they can write 0, or something. (You can find out more by Googling, and hopefully someone comes and says I'm wrong, cuz it's delicious).

Zero calorie soda? I'm not sure about this one, but I've seen quite a few people say they've gained weight after taking diet soda back into their dietary rotation.

Post all the ones you know (or are curious about, maybe someone else has the answer)! :-)

Well, first I know that you need to get your facts straight. The zero calorie spray butter is 0.8 calories per spray, NOT 8 calories per spray.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/parkay-spray-lawsuit_n_2956709.html

Second, if a serving, as defined by the manufacturer is less than 5 calories, the FDA encourages the manufacturer to list the food as zero calories.
http://www.fda.gov/food/guidanceregulation/guidancedocumentsregulatoryinformation/labelingnutrition/ucm064911.htm

As for the soda, a can of diet soda has less than one calorie, therefore by FDA guidelines is allowed to label the soda as zero calories
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/1calorie.asp

Edited to add this: I drink diet sodas literally every day and I have been losing weight. That's another myth exploded.

I heard air has 1 calorie a breath. The internet told me.

Confusing labels:

When weighing chicken (or fish, or whatever) are the calories on the label for the raw meat, or cooked? I always thought cooked because it loses water and stuff, but I'm not sure. Anyone know?

White rice! It says 160 cals for 1/4th cup...does it mean 1/4th dry or cooked? Huge difference!

Pretty sure it means prepared, I don't know of anyone eating dry rice, so why would they put the calories for dried rice on a package? but who knows! just my guess

So you weigh the meat product dethawed, right?