The latest entries in the WTF serving size competition

[katster]

So I’ve been trying to be more interested in nutrition labels to get a better idea of what calorie counts and other stuff are in my food. This has now become a game, in which I attempt to find the most egregious and/or crazy entries on the nutritional label.

Today brings us two entries in the WTF serving size competition:

1) Apparently, a serving size of Tic Tacs is one Tic Tac, with the extremely precise value of 1.9 calories per serving. (Sorry the picture’s kinda blurry, was trying to take it fast.)

2) I’d like you to try and eat just one-third of a muffin at once. (The whole muffin is 600 calories. OMG.)

Mirrored from retstak.org.

Comments

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

I can, and do, eat a single Tic-Tac, I have them at my desk to suck when my throat goes dry, a packet can last over a week.

FF

[inflection.livejournal.com]

When used as mints, a single Tic-tac makes sense, but if used as candy or gum, most people will take a handful.

I'm actually pleased that Tic-tac is so precise about its calorie number; American food labels allow values below 5 calories to be rounded to 0. There's a low-sugar jam I like which lists 10 calories a serving, but there are 22 servings in a jar. I just budget it at 15 per, for a total of 330.

The serving game is why I bought a food scale. :^)