Food manufacturer math

tomatoey
tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
This was on the rice I made today.

Serving size in nutritional information: 35 ml
Serving size per person as listed in cooking instructions: 62 ml (250 ml / 4, when 250 ml is meant to prepare 4 servings)

I can't wait for this to make sense soon.

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  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    Intentionally misleading labelling. :disappointed:
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Intentionally misleading labelling. :disappointed:

    Yup :/

    This is changing soon, though, right?
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    Each serving (per instructions) equals 1.77 servings (per the nutritional information)
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    edited March 2015
    LiftAllThePizzas wrote: »
    Each serving (per instructions) equals 1.77 servings (per the nutritional information)

    Yup, I just hate that they do that. Why is there no angry emoticon. Ok well I'm more kind of miffed than angry, really.
  • westcoastgrl21
    westcoastgrl21 Posts: 172 Member
    I'm guessing that the 35ml is a dry volume, and the 62ml is a cooked volume (hence being included in the preparation instructions). Rice roughly doubles when cooked, so that would make sense-ish. ISH.
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    edited March 2015
    westcoastgrl21 wrote: »
    I'm guessing that the 35ml is a dry volume, and the 62ml is a cooked volume (hence being included in the preparation instructions). Rice roughly doubles when cooked, so that would make sense-ish. ISH.

    Nope.

    "Nutrition Facts: Per mL (30g) (about 125 ml prepared)"

    vs.

    "4 servings:
    [add]
    Rice: 250 ml (1 cup) [this is the dry bit, I don't know why it's in ml]
    Water: 500 ml (2 cup)"
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    OR am I doing it wrong, it's true, I could be doing it wrong.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    250 ml of rice + 500 ml of water = some volume around 625ml then you lose water by evaporation and the rice swells up. 4 servings at 125ml = 500 ml total volume after cooking. Seems credible.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    One doesn't normally serve rice dry. Water increase the volume, but not the calories.
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