serving sizes

Jessicaruby
Jessicaruby Posts: 881 Member
edited October 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Does any one else find that the amount of servings in some items is wrong? Today i bought a container of trail mix and it said it had 8 servings in the whole container but i swear i only got 4 out of it !?!?!?!

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  • SergeantSunshine_reused
    SergeantSunshine_reused Posts: 5,382 Member
    did you weigh it out?
  • austepants
    austepants Posts: 356 Member
    Bump
  • Athena413
    Athena413 Posts: 1,709 Member
    YES! I just made a bag of stir fry and it said it had 4 1.5 cup servings...I measured my food out with a measuring cup and left the rest for my husband, but there is NO way that there is still 3 servings in there!
  • Jessicaruby
    Jessicaruby Posts: 881 Member
    also if the serving sizes are not the same does that mean a serving contains more calories than listed?
  • lucylue21
    lucylue21 Posts: 214
    i did this with cereal. said there was so many cups in it. i measured and it was like 6 short.
  • rockerbabyy
    rockerbabyy Posts: 2,258 Member
    ive noticed it with frozen veggies... but if it says like "1 C (xx grams)" ill get my food scale out and measure the grams instead of getting out a measuring cup..its a bit more accurate that way.
  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
    should definitely weigh portions to see how they line up, but sometimes production errors happen, the single potato chip in a bag still slips through the production line the odd time (seen it maybe 4 times in 10 years in retail)
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