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The truly deceitful food industry trick here isn't with calories but trans fats. The FDA allows food companies to round down and say "0 grams of trans fat" on
by rarrrrrr 17y ago
The truly deceitful food industry trick here isn't with calories but trans fats.
The FDA allows food companies to round down and say "0 grams of trans fat" on the label if the product contains less than 0.5 grams _per serving_.
So food companies proudly say "0g trams fat" on the front of a package, even though it might be loaded with heart poisoning hydrogenated oils.
Unsurprisingly, FDA requirements are fairly relaxed in this area compared to Canada and the EU.
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- bshep 17y agoI have a PAM non-stick cooking spray that says '0g of fat' and has something like 430 servings, a serving is a 1/3second spray, something tells me that 1/3 second spray is what has less than 0.5g of fat and hence why they used that number. EDIT: As someone mentioned below, wolfram alpha has a good database. According to that the can (5oz) has 112g of fat. By my math 112g/430servings = 0.26g/serving =/= 0g/serv http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pam+cooking+spray+5oz http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pam+cooking+spray+5oz
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