• Scott 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Maybe the amount of calories and fat is too small for typical measuring methods to register anything above 1 given the serving size. Of course, I don’t know how anyone can spray for 1/4 of a second with any close to accurate.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      A quarter second is about what I do for my only use case, but I’m only covering a couple of square inches.

    • portifornia@piefed.social
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      1 day ago

      No, in US labeling, it’s all a rounding scheme designed to hide the facts thanks to junk food lobbyists.

      “amounts less than 5 calories may be expressed as zero.” [Within whatever arbitrary(!!!) serving size the company elects to use for their junk.] So they just pick a serving size that, for instance would be 4 (k)cal, and then call it zero across the board to suit their desire to obfuscate the truth.

      Not to mention, what they call a calorie is really a kilocalorie.

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        5 calories is all but meaningless. There’s a small beetle on my window right now. Less than 5 calories.

        In the calorie tracking world, there’s no difference in kcal and cal.