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American serving sizes are extremely corrupt. Its unusual to eat two bananas, so my "real world" breakfast is one banana or about 12 g carbs. We sell unhealth
by VLM 10y ago
American serving sizes are extremely corrupt.
Its unusual to eat two bananas, so my "real world" breakfast is one banana or about 12 g carbs.
We sell unhealthy stuff in crazy small serving sizes to market it as healthy. When I eat junk food, like pasta and meatballs night, we use two boxes of Penne (some consider use of Penne to be sacrilege in itself) and the box is labeled as 8 fifty gram servings per box, although we make two boxes for four people and admittedly have plenty left over for lunch the next day. Sure that pasta sauce claims a mere 24 grams of carbs per serving, if you get 9 servings out of that little jar (we usually get about four servings). I don't eat junk food very often.
Lets compare guacamole dippers. For a good laugh look at the official legal serving size for potato chips. Like 10 chips. For real human beings its more like half a bag (if not the whole thing). An entire half pound "single serving" bag of baby carrots is about 80 calories. I pig out in front of the TV sometimes, the difference is I don't think its physically possible to get fat off carrots and guac and I eat like "half a zerving" and feel I've had enough, but obviously pretty easy to get fat off soda and chips and I can eat ten servings and feel hungry-ish. Ten servings of potatoe chips is only 100 or so chips ya know.
- derefr 10y agoOne thing I've figured out about "servings" is that the corporate nutritionists' mental model of dinner is a lot like a "balanced breakfast": they expect that instead of eating big portions of one or two things, you'll be eating the "recommended servings" of five-to-eight different things, each of which takes a half-hour to prepare.