Fuck…
Half my diet was stopping eating peanut butter. The other half was drinking less. Helth
Peanut butter is delicious but it’s basically the neutron star of food calories! Makes me sad.
I’ll do more pushups before I eat less peanut butyerm calories ain’t bad if you’re using them!
This is the one of the top signs that we’re living in a simulation.
It’s the recommended serving sizes that are out of touch with reality.
I’m pretty sure that most of the time, you can’t see them with the naked eye.
Yeah, it should be illegal to list serving sizes that disconnected from reality. They should be MANDATED to have the first column list the nutrition information for the container as a whole, and then let them put whatever ridiculous lie, but it should only be allowed in a second column, that I can ignore after seeing the first column that shows what the container actually contains.
I don’t know how they do it elsewhere, but here in New Zealand, they put “per 100g” measurements on the labels which are really helpful.
It’s not me that’s out of touch with reality, peanut butter jar.
I’m in touch with my peanut butter jar
Remember, a peanut butter jar does not have a flared base.
Aren’t the serving sizes intentionally small so they can get away with saying that stuff has less sugar?
As someone who, if anything, wants to gain weight, this has the inverse effect for me. Peanut butter is great because it’s so dense with calories. (I try to avoid sugar though, but I don’t think peanut butter has much added sugar, but I’ll have to check next time I have some.)
I know I’m in the minority though. I’m a 6ft tall man who weighs ~125-130lb. I was stuck at 120 for a decade or more, and only recently have put on a couple more pounds. I don’t have an eating disorder or anything, but I just struggle to put on weight, so my serving sizes personally for peanut butter are way higher than average.
Tic tacs have a serving size of less than a gram so they can claim 0g of sugar.
Only in America. Always thought that was a weird law.
Wtf peanut butter you get into that’s got sugar?
Any excuse to put corn into everything. Otherwise US farmers might have to go back to growing diverse crops instead the environmentally destructive monocrops. Won’t you think think of the investors?
Looked into it, could not find a peanut butter jar whose nutritional facts did not have sugar. Most common amount was 3g per serving.
Serving size was 2 tablespoons, or 32 grams. That doesn’t actually sound that unreasonalsble for a pb&j to me.
nonetheless that is shit peanut butter. Yes, it’s all got sugars in it
Smaller portion = less sugar, fat, salt, calories etc… If I remember correctly a few states have addressed making unrealistic portion sizes for the label as making misleading claims.
Nutrients should always be listed in pr 100g or in percent (effectively the same).
They are almost always 1 oz (28g).
But, individually packaged stuff does tend to pull bullshit like “1 serving=half a bottle of soda”
Peanut butter is probably going to be fine though
I saw a wrapped item that did the opposite, which was weird. It was a pack of 3 pieces and a serving was 4.
Probably to hit some magic number:
Contains 10 g of protein per serving!!*
*Serving size 10 kg
What is this, lettuce?!
Depends on the quantity of parasites on the lettuce
You guys get multiple servings from a jar?
Given that the most typical use is spreading it on a slice of bread, I’ll argue, no I’m not out of touch, everyone else is. When the “serving size” can’t fill the expected use case, it’s not the consumer that’s wrong
One slice is two servings, clearly.
A serving size of peanut butter is one.
One spoon.
One inch.
One jar.
etc.
This is why I serve my peanut butter in cheese wheel form. 1 inch thick but 18 inches wide.
The trick is to use the back of the spoon to scoop it out! Makes spreading so much easier.
290 kcal
That’s a European serving. The rest of the jar is one Texan serving.
we don’t even list serving sizes on our stuff, just nutrients per 100g so you can count it yourself
I used to think this was a bad idea because while objective numbers are great, it can be difficult to apply it to real life. But then manufacturers play games with serving size so it’s no more realistic than a flat 100g, so I’ll pick the more honest choice
In Germany the nutrients per 100g are mandatory, but most of the time there is nutrients per serving on there too.
A nutrition label useful for both comparison and meal planning? What will they think of next?
100g maps directly to percentages. 3.5g sugar per serving, 1 serving is ⅓ cup -> ??% sugar per unit weight. 9g sugar per 100g -> 9% per unit weight. makes it possible to actually calculate nutrient intake in your head.
I know, I was making a reference to how ridiculously large American portion sizes are.
I put like 10x this on some graham crackers last night 😬
It’s better measured in thickness. Obviously, you’ll cover whatever it’s being smeared on from edge to edge.
