Trader Joe's Butter Chicken - conflicting nutritional info
Gaia85
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I take a different frozen meal to work each day for lunch.
Today, I ate Trader Joe's Butter Chicken with Basmati Rice. On the back it says that it is 270 cal/serving (250g) and there's 1 serving per container.
So, I happily log my meal at 270 calories and as I'm eating it, I'm thinking, how did they get all of this food in this container for under 270 calories?
Now curious, I look at the front of the box and it says Net Wt. 354g.
1 serving = 250g
1 container = 1 serving
Therefore, 1 container = 250g
But...
Net Wt = 354g
The math does not add up...
Long story short, I logged it as 1.4 servings to be on the safe side.
So is this a mistake? Or does 354g include the weight of the container? I didn't have a scale at work to check. Has anyone had this frozen meal and noticed this?
Today, I ate Trader Joe's Butter Chicken with Basmati Rice. On the back it says that it is 270 cal/serving (250g) and there's 1 serving per container.
So, I happily log my meal at 270 calories and as I'm eating it, I'm thinking, how did they get all of this food in this container for under 270 calories?
Now curious, I look at the front of the box and it says Net Wt. 354g.
1 serving = 250g
1 container = 1 serving
Therefore, 1 container = 250g
But...
Net Wt = 354g
The math does not add up...
Long story short, I logged it as 1.4 servings to be on the safe side.
So is this a mistake? Or does 354g include the weight of the container? I didn't have a scale at work to check. Has anyone had this frozen meal and noticed this?
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Looks like they've buggered it up. I'd complain. Seek free stuff.6
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According to this thread, someone called TJ's and the answer is the box has 1.4 servings and they rounded down to 1.
https://www.reddit.com/r/1200isplenty/comments/501ru1/trader_joes_butter_chicken_with_basmati_rice_a/#bottom-comments1 -
Wow! Talk about false advertising. I'm glad I put it in for 1.4 servings.
Thank you!2 -
Good on you for paying attention! This BS is part of the reason why people who mainly eat packaged foods may suddenly plateau. When stuff like this adds up over a day, AND your target deficit is not that big, you won't lose weight as expected.0
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does the net weight also include the box and the container or just the food?
I always double check if possible the weight of microwave meals - since legally they can have up to a 20% variation1 -
What bugs me about this is that its made in Canada, yet we in Canada dont have TJs nor do we have these ready boxes lol
TJ doesn't usually make their own Indian foods - I know I've found the same ready meals with different branding in the frozen section of various Indian grocers.0 -
Thank you for this post! TJ's butter chicken is my favorite frozen meal, and I recently went to log it and was like "wow, too good to be true!" but didn't investigate further.0
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@thegeans That's exactly what I was thinking...too good to be true!
@crazyravr I thought the exact same thing. I'm a Canadian living in America and thought, it's a bit ironic that it's made in Canada and I never knew Trader Joe's existed until I moved here.
Now, I'm constantly checking Net Weight with nutritional info.
Today, I had Evol's Bulgogi Beef bowl and it was delicious and accurate! 310 calories for 255g, as listed on the back.
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Oh boy! That's good to know. Very observant of you. That would really suck if somebody had to watch their intake of sodium and other things. Geez Louise0
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@thegeans That's exactly what I was thinking...too good to be true!
@crazyravr I thought the exact same thing. I'm a Canadian living in America and thought, it's a bit ironic that it's made in Canada and I never knew Trader Joe's existed until I moved here.
Now, I'm constantly checking Net Weight with nutritional info.
Today, I had Evol's Bulgogi Beef bowl and it was delicious and accurate! 310 calories for 255g, as listed on the back.
I'm not familiar with that brand, where did you find this one? Sorry about the pkg issues, but shark catching it. Guess it's a case of anything under .5 it isn't counted. :laugh: In this situation it matters!0 -
I had that issue with another brand of frozen meal that was made in Canada, which I bought at a Walmart in Connecticut. Same manufacturer, maybe?
I'm used to the "grams/serving x number of servings" not quite matching the package weight, but it was over the top of what could be considered acceptable, in my opinion.0 -
PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »I had that issue with another brand of frozen meal that was made in Canada, which I bought at a Walmart in Connecticut. Same manufacturer, maybe?
I'm used to the "grams/serving x number of servings" not quite matching the package weight, but it was over the top of what could be considered acceptable, in my opinion.
Its just us Canucks trying to secretly fatten you guys up across the border lol
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PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »I had that issue with another brand of frozen meal that was made in Canada, which I bought at a Walmart in Connecticut. Same manufacturer, maybe?
I'm used to the "grams/serving x number of servings" not quite matching the package weight, but it was over the top of what could be considered acceptable, in my opinion.
Too late to edit, but it was Chef Bombay.0 -
this thread made me start looking at serving and packaging size.
Already found a few items where the serving size doesn't match the packaged size. Example, Libby's chocolate bars. The nutrition label says it has 2 servings of 40g, but the packaged weight is 85g. So 1 bar is actually about 2.1 servings total. Not much, only a difference of 16 calories, not nearly as problematic as this one.
But it's certainly something I'm paying attention to now.4 -
my question stands - does the packaged weight include the physical package itself - 5g could easily be accounted for in the packaging...0
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deannalfisher wrote: »my question stands - does the packaged weight include the physical package itself - 5g could easily be accounted for in the packaging...
no. the bar itself was 85g on the nose. Wrapper only weighed 1 or 2 g anyways.0 -
PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »I had that issue with another brand of frozen meal that was made in Canada, which I bought at a Walmart in Connecticut. Same manufacturer, maybe?
I'm used to the "grams/serving x number of servings" not quite matching the package weight, but it was over the top of what could be considered acceptable, in my opinion.
Its just us Canucks trying to secretly fatten you guys up across the border lol
Maybe Canadian grams are just worth a lot less...you know...like your dollar.3 -
Hearts_2015 wrote: »I'm not familiar with that brand, where did you find this one? Sorry about the pkg issues, but shark catching it. Guess it's a case of anything under .5 it isn't counted. :laugh: In this situation it matters!
Evol has some amazing frozen meals. I find them at Whole Foods.
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Yikes. I guess I need to start weighing packaged food again (and check the box for TJ stuff). That's why I have trust issues.0
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I feel like canned beans are always confusing as crap to me and I think it's because of the liquid, that throws off the serving size to the weight. But how many people really keep the liquid from the can, they should do serving size without considering the liquid in the weight.0
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Yikes. I guess I need to start weighing packaged food again (and check the box for TJ stuff). That's why I have trust issues.
Always ALWAYS weight and measure EVERYTHING that came in a box. Companies can be off by a LOT and its legally OK. CBC in Canada did a show on packaged foods and calories. Some were off by 20-40% and acceptable.
Yeah I know. I just got lazy when I started to maintain and realized that I can apparently get away with overeating 200+ calories a day and still not gain, lol (ok, I did gain... but 10 lbs only in 2 years, not the 30+ I should have gained if I trusted my fitbit). So I don't really worry that much about accuracy (plus we're eating out more at places that don't have nutrition info anyway).
But yeah, I've had that before, a waffle that was supposed to be 240 calories turned out 340 or something.emmydoodles83 wrote: »I feel like canned beans are always confusing as crap to me and I think it's because of the liquid, that throws off the serving size to the weight. But how many people really keep the liquid from the can, they should do serving size without considering the liquid in the weight.
5 years into MFP and I still don't know how to log canned beans.0 -
Hearts_2015 wrote: »I'm not familiar with that brand, where did you find this one? Sorry about the pkg issues, but shark catching it. Guess it's a case of anything under .5 it isn't counted. :laugh: In this situation it matters!
Evol has some amazing frozen meals. I find them at Whole Foods.
@Gaia85 Thanks!
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