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Serving sizes are set to a standardized size so you can compare equal portions between products. So if you want to know which type of potato chip has lower salt
by orev 5y ago
Serving sizes are set to a standardized size so you can compare equal portions between products. So if you want to know which type of potato chip has lower salt, they both list “8 oz” as the serving size, even if one bag has 10 oz and the other has 12 oz. Then you can easily tell which one you want.
- cyberpunk 5y agoYeah right and one small bottle of cola is 3 servings right? Or one bag of crisps, definitely 4 servings there... The packaging should explain the contents, not some weird fraction of the contents that no one sticks to.
- orev 5y agoYou don’t seem to be getting the point. The idea is so you can compare the nutritional value using a standard measurement size, no matter how big the bottle is. Knowing how much sodium is in something is not very useful when shopping if you can’t compare it to other products on the shelf. The main issue is really the term “serving size”, as it implies that what’s in the package is a single “serving”. (And this confusion only applies to smaller, convenience size packages. Nobody would think a party size bag of chips is a single “serving”). If they called it something else, like “sample size”, it might not be so bad. However it’s also difficult to come up with a succinct word to describe it.
- loonster 5y agoI believe the EU has a requirement of listing it per 100g. I would greatly prefer that system.
- jeegsy 5y agoI was going to comment to say something like this. Intuitively this seems like a simple problem that has been deliberately complicated to provide some wiggle room for the producers.