Ultimate Naked Noodles - misleading calories

darkwraithmu
darkwraithmu Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Nutrition values per 100g 130 calories, per pot 320g, 417 calories, however the pot is 90g.
If you just add water (zero calories) as it’s already got herbs, flavourings in it, how can it be 417?
Calories don’t increase when adding water. E.g. If 100g of pasta was 100 calories dry, it’s still 100 calories when cooked.

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  • Kiyomoo
    Kiyomoo Posts: 354 Member
    I am assume that the 320g "per pot" is referring to 320g of noodles in the pot, not including the additional weight of water. But you should weigh the cup and see how many grams it is before adding water just to be sure.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,207 Member
    edited January 2023
    These products are self contained and they're all single servings and they all have different weights. Which actual product are you referring to. Most are in the 280 calories per container and they're all carb bombs at 60 to 78%
  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,754 Member
    100 grams of pasta is 130 calories, not 100. And 100 grams is one serving, there are 320 grams of pasta in the pot, meaning over 3 servings. Do the math, it's 416 calories for the pot. You're only meant to eat 1/3 of the pot.
  • BarbaraHelen2013
    BarbaraHelen2013 Posts: 1,940 Member
    The pot (full of dried noodles and flavourings) contains 90g of product.

    That has no bearing whatsoever on the nutritional information since that is given on an ‘as consumed’ basis.

    The ‘as consumed’ calorie count per 100g is given as 130 cals.

    The dry contents when rehydrated with the amount of water as given in the instructions will yield 320g of ‘food’.

    130 x 3.2 = 416

    The 417 stated on your pot is due to rounding somewhere in their numbers. But it’s just a single calorie!

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