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If you are in the US, food labels are only required to list total fat, sat fat and trans fat. Mono and polyunsat fats are voluntary so are usually missing on the typical label so wouldn't be entered in the MFP database.

Even people who are not trying to plan healthy meals feel this way. Years ago when I broke my arm and couldn't cook, it took my husband about 3 days before he got tired of planning, cooking. He looked at me and said "if I ever complain about what you make for dinner again, I want you to hit me."

Allulose is unique in that it contains carbs but they are not digested as calories like regular carbs.

Contact the manufacturer. They usually willing to provide the info.

Probably best option would be to email them directly and ask them. Most companies are pretty good at providing that kind of information.

Estimate the best I can. If I am off significantly for 1 day, I won't stress out about it.

My answer to morning sickness was to eat the things that tasted better coming back up (sweet things). And since they weren't necessarily staying down long enough to count, I never worried about it. Eventually (after 5 months) it went away. Good luck!

I don't know where you are from but in the US, 5g underweight for a 125g package would be well within the acceptable limits. The rules are that the weight average of a lot of product must be at or above the declared net weight. That means that individual containers may be more or less than that average. For a package that…

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1. FDA REQUIRES the rounding on labels. This is not something that manufacturers make up on their own. 2. The +/- 20% is also part of the labeling regulations. Food is natural and its composition varies. Sometimes a lot. The range allows for that variation. If a manufacturer were to label at the top or bottom of that…

I bought one of those ceramic tile squares (12"x12") off the clearance rack at my local hardware store to put my scale on when all I had was carpeting. Best 89 cents I ever spent!

I think you are confusing quick oats sold in bulk containers with instant oats often sold in packets and combined with other ingredients and flavors. There is very little difference nutritionally by weight between steel cut and quick oats (or old fashioned oats) . They all contain the same whole grain groat (minus the…

And the official response I got from Chicken of the Sea - "Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding information on our products. We always appreciate hearing from our customers. Differences in catch location, water depth/temperature and diet of the fish can affect the nutritional content of the tuna. Because of this, we…

@ninerbuff Do you have any links to data that shows the calorie difference in tuna from different seasons? The video doesn't discuss it and all I am finding is water vs oil pack differences. I know that different varieties of tuna (light vs white for ex) have different profiles but I have never heard this one before.

Apples and oranges. My % fat is % by weight. Yours is calories from fat.

You misunderstood what I said- the % fat is clear as a bell. Trying to add up % calories from fat and try to determine if everything balances out is confusing. Why make it harder than it has to be? The jennio turkey is 10% fat and a serving contributes 12g of fat to my 50g target for the day. I have 38g to eat from other…

Yes, I've been reading it from the beginning and thought that one was discussed to death. We had moved on to pop tarts. 90% lean means 10% fat and 90% everything else as packaged. I don't eat individual foods in isolation so 1 particular food that has a higher % of calories from fat may not be meaningful in my overall…

Yes, they come 2 to a sleeve and the serving size for poptarts has been 2 pastries for 7 years (since 2016). And understand that the required labeling is for the entire box - it is what you see when you buy it. So a "package" would not be useful unless you were going to eat the entire box as a serving. Since the shelf-life…

At least the RACC is a starting point and gives some standardization. For many people (my husband is 1), NEVER look at a nutrition label so it could say anything and it doesn't matter.

It may have changed with the update in 2016 - I have no idea. I just know what the 2016 version said the serving size is 2 pastries and that was 7 years ago. It just means that people haven't really bothered to read the label since they eat them all the time and figure they are the same as they always were. Sounds like…

FDA does specify serving sizes in spite of what social media makes people think. All foods in the US are covered by 21CFR101.12 https://accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm?fr=101.12 which specifies a reference amount for different categories of food. These regulations have been in place since NLEA…

In the US, food manufacturers do not just make up what they think should be a serving. FDA specifies what a serving size is for a particular type of food. On the poptart question - where is everyone seeing that a serving is only 1 poptart? Reference amount from FDA is 110g which equates to 2 pastries. Every single label I…

It has natural and artificial flavors in the ingredients so that's probably the source of the lemon flavor.

Depends on the particular brand. There are several types on the market now that just use compressed air as the propellant.

"Deceptive" implies that they had a choice in determining the serving size. They don't - it is specified by FDA as 0.25g for those types of products. Whether it is 1/4, 1/3, etc of a second spray just depends on their particular spray mechanism to deliver that amount of product. The label rounding rules that FDA has set up…

The exact reason why I stopped using the barcode scanner and didn't care when it became a paid option.

You are correct in what was pictured was a patty and not necessarily ground beef. But since 75%+ of ground beef in the US is sold in bulk forms, not patties, I would assume a lot of that is being made into patties in people's homes and those people can relate to this comparison. Those homemade ones sure don't have 20+…

I second the scale - their nutrition facts panel says 1 scoop is 30 grams but I highly doubt that 2 Tbsp of a dry powder weighs 30g. Best would be to weigh it.

Some products may have additional flavorings, spices or salt added but products labeled as "ground beef" cannot have any water, extenders, phosphates, preservatives, colors, etc added by law. So that package of plain/unseasoned bulk ground beef is just beef.