A serving is WHAT????
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Jthanmyfitnesspal wrote: »
As @BartBVanBockstaele notes, listing calories per weight does allow for comparison to other foods, but I don't carry a scale with me everywhere I go!
It's far from universal but I see quite a few nutritional labels with both here:
- per 100gr
- per unit/several units/portion size
For example for After Eight mints, a serving is 2 mints:
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Here in Australia all labels have the info per serving and per 100g/ml it makes it so much easier to really assess what you're buying and eating2 -
My lunch yesterday was a weighed out single serving of saag paneer (naan bread on the side) as I'm watching my saturated fat intake. It was delicious, but this just looks like a sad amount.
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Jthanmyfitnesspal wrote: »
As @BartBVanBockstaele notes, listing calories per weight does allow for comparison to other foods, but I don't carry a scale with me everywhere I go!
It's far from universal but I see quite a few nutritional labels with both here:
- per 100gr
- per unit/several units/portion size
For example for After Eight mints, a serving is 2 mints:
I'm a huge fan of that for 'ready to eat' foods such as cookies.
I was going to say that ridiculous serving sizes are a typically US thing, but I stand corrected. For a small 45gr bag of Lays chips, the stated portion size is 40 grams
Who on earth would leave 5 grams for another time?
And on top of that, a large bag of exactly the same chips states 30gr as a portion...
It's interesting that they're allowed to wiggle the portion sizes like that. I'd bet that it's because that way they can include the phrase "10 portions per container" (if it's 300gr) on the large one instead of "7.5 portions per container."
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I know this wasn't what you were aiming at, but I'd like to express outrage at US vegetable serving sizes, especially in restaurant sides.
Three or four asparagus stalks is pathetic. A tiny heap of maybe a dozen green beans is sad.
In home foods, I know I'm an eating preferences outlier, but the frozen broccoli I fall back on for lazy days says a pound (frozen weight) is 5 servings. Nah. That's just a smallish cereal bowl of broccoli, when cooked: One serving.2 -
One of the worst food labeling that I see...Costco sells frozen Japanese-style fried rice. The box contains 6 individual microwavable bags of rice. The nutrition information panel states that the box contains 7 servings of rice. So...if you wanted to eat just one "serving size", you would have to save 1/6 of each little bag and then make the 7th portion with those remnants?6
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Giggle, it seems we have the same problem.@BartBVanBockstaele I’m working on my self control and I feel 1/4 jar is reasonable also regardless of jar size. I enjoy the economy school cafeteria style 64 ounce monster.
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I have seen those as well, and in Canada at least, they tend to note the number of grams/ml per claimed 'serving' instead of per 100 g. While that is already something. Stating per 100 g should be universal in my opinion. It is how scientists do it, and even the USDA does it that way. The claim that stating per 'serving' is easier for Americans, essentially says that Americans are the dumbest of the dumb, and I refuse to accept that idea.It's far from universal but I see quite a few nutritional labels with both here:
- per 100gr
- per unit/several units/portion size
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There are some of those in Canada as well, but –as far as I am aware– not many. It is a pity, really. On the other hand, if accuracy were to be enforced, that would certainly be a major improvement.Alatariel75 wrote: »Here in Australia all labels have the info per serving and per 100g/ml it makes it so much easier to really assess what you're buying and eating
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clicketykeys wrote: »Jthanmyfitnesspal wrote: »
As @BartBVanBockstaele notes, listing calories per weight does allow for comparison to other foods, but I don't carry a scale with me everywhere I go!
It's far from universal but I see quite a few nutritional labels with both here:
- per 100gr
- per unit/several units/portion size
For example for After Eight mints, a serving is 2 mints:
I'm a huge fan of that for 'ready to eat' foods such as cookies.
I was going to say that ridiculous serving sizes are a typically US thing, but I stand corrected. For a small 45gr bag of Lays chips, the stated portion size is 40 grams Who on earth would leave 5 grams for another time?
And on top of that, a large bag of exactly the same chips states 30gr as a portion...
It's interesting that they're allowed to wiggle the portion sizes like that. I'd bet that it's because that way they can include the phrase "10 portions per container" (if it's 300gr) on the large one instead of "7.5 portions per container."
Nope, our packages don't state how many portions they contain. Just total weight. I think only nutritional info per 100gr is mandatory, and any other portion/serving/... is optional and (possibly) freely chosen. Sometimes a serving size, sometimes per piece, sometimes for several pieces, sometimes for the whole package (for example a ready meal). And sometimes no extra info at all, just let 100gr. I'm no expert on EU guidelines, but from the labels I've seen, it's so irregular that I don't think there are strict rules.0 -
Nursegirl_jax wrote: »
My lunch yesterday was a weighed out single serving of saag paneer (naan bread on the side) as I'm watching my saturated fat intake. It was delicious, but this just looks like a sad amount.
I love you for your photographic evidence!!!
It looks delicious but also like a SNACK!
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Oh @suzysunshine99 that is AMAZINGLY stupid!!! I love it.0
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quiksylver296 wrote: »A quarter of a pint of Ben and Jerry's. Yeah, right. Everyone knows one pint equals one serving.
I've given up trying to moderate pints of B&J and just don't buy them anymore
No consolation, but the label now says there are three servings per container.2 -
Poptarts. 200 calories each. Who eats just one?
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22 servings in a box of cereal. Really. Must be using toddler bowls.1
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IMO, the issue with Industrialized countries like the US and UK is that they are so used to huge portions of food that when a reasonable serving size (like those served outside the US) is considered small. There's a reason why other countries who don't have as much industry aren't suffering from weight issues due to the fact that their portions are much smaller. Where we eat off 13" plates, a lot of other countries use 9" plates or smaller as a reference.
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I totally agree with that. I use one-third of 750 g bag, i.e. 250 g of frozen broccoli (about 60 Kcal) as a serving/portion and that is barely enough to even be aware that I ate something, despite the label stating that one serving is 85 g. At the beginning of my diet, I used 375 g which was half a bag and that wasn't very much either, but with weightloss also comes a reduction of calories needed, so I have had to adapt. Sometimes I wish I were fat again, 375 g (88 Kcal) would look a lot bigger now.Three or four asparagus stalks is pathetic. A tiny heap of maybe a dozen green beans is sad.
In home foods, I know I'm an eating preferences outlier, but the frozen broccoli I fall back on for lazy days says a pound (frozen weight) is 5 servings. Nah. That's just a smallish cereal bowl of broccoli, when cooked: One serving.
And don't get me started on a "handful of baby spinach". What is that again? 6 or 7 g? And that is then usually followed by the advice that "you have to learn to throw things away". Hugh?
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