Asian foods/foreign foods have wrong nutrition??

Hey everyone!
So lately I've been venturing outside my local Wal-Mart and going to various Korean/Chinese markets around. Now, I have been getting some AWESOME stuff (sriracha, various curries, POCKY) but I noticed that the nutritional info seems kind of....sketchy. Not only is some of it in KJ instead of kcals, but sometimes the info doesn't seem to make sense. Sometimes the info seems too high or too low......like these cookies I saw that said that they were 570 calories for two tiny almond cookies.Each was barely bigger than a coffee coaster and about 1-2 cm thick.....
And this noodle soup!
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It's all rice noodles, but only 185 calories?? I had it for lunch-the amount of rice noodles seemed to be so much for just 185 cals!!!!!
so in conclusion: does anyone know whether it is safe to trust the nutritional info on majority of foreign products?? :O or should i be more wary....o_O

The almond cookies might have been in kj not calories (divide by four for a rough conversion). Although if they are all almonds, the calorie count could be reasonably high.

As for the nooodles - if you aren't sure, check another brand in the database or online. Generally I would expect that if the company has gone to the trouble to provide the nutritional info its probably correct, but you do need to be careful to work out if they mean cals or kj and if the numbers are for the whole pack - maybe your noodles have two servings not one?

Don't they have nutritional info on the package?

I have the same problem! The majority of what I eat is stuff I need to put through Google translator...

I lived in Toronto for several years, and I can tell you that from my experiences shopping in Chinatown and Koreatown (I absolutely PAT Market in Koreatown), I can tell you that there were plenty of products with nutritional info that was waaaaaay off. Given how many typos I find and different standards of labelling from different countries, I wouldn't be surprised if conversions from one unit measure to another ended in miscalculations. Canada has labelling requirements that are roughly on par with the USA, but some of this import stuff seems to slip through the cracks.

The best thing that you can probably do, if you absolutely can't give up your questionably labelled imported goods (and I totally understand if you can't), is to substitute nutritional info from similar domestic products (keeping in mind that some of those noodles have hidden fats from being fried, first). The caloric content by weight and the macronutrients should be fairy close, at least.