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The biggest complaint I have is that anything sold in a non-resealable single-serving container should be treated as one serving, regardless of any standardized
by TylerE 3y ago
The biggest complaint I have is that anything sold in a non-resealable single-serving container should be treated as one serving, regardless of any standardized size.
So for instance a can of soda should be totaled on the full 12oz, not the 8oz serving size that no one actually consumes.
- psygn89 3y agoI remember looking at the nutrition label on my popcorn box. It looked something like https://i.redd.it/9elpy3nck0x61.jpg https://i.redd.it/9elpy3nck0x61.jpg. It would be nice if in addition to their measured nutrition they just have a simplified "1 bag = ...".
- hombre_fatal 3y agoI’d like to see per 100g standardized in a second column like it is done in Mexico so that you can actually compare products regardless of what they say their serving size is (first column).
- TylerE 3y agoThat makes way too much sense to ever actually happen.
- hdhdhsjsbdh 3y agoWhy can something so simple and unobjectionable happen in other places but not the US? Your knee-jerk response is the same as my own, but I wonder to what extent the apathy/cynicism has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- TylerE 3y agoLobbyists and runaway corporate greed.
- freddie_mercury 3y agoTIL corporations in Mexico aren't greedy and there is no lobbying/corruption...
- robertlagrant 3y agoBlimey. We're just learning about the person that invented this type of labelling, in the US. And don't blame lobbyists; they should be lobbying, just as a public defender should be defending their client. The people deciding the wrong thing after all lobbying has happened are to blame, especially given they're funded by mandatory taxes.
- ryandrake 3y agoIt’s ridiculous that companies are allowed to just conjure up a unit of measurement (the Serving) out of thin air purely to confuse the public.
- teraflop 3y agoCompanies aren't allowed to choose whatever serving size they want. Serving sizes are governed by federal regulations drawn up by the FDA, which means they have the force of law. 21 CFR § 101.9(b) defines general procedures for determining serving sizes: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/101.9 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/101.9 21 CFR § 101.12 defines specific "reference amounts" for particular food categories: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/101.12 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/101.12 See, for instance, § 101.9(b)(6) which says: "A product that is packaged and sold individually that contains less than 200 percent of the applicable reference amount must be considered to be a single-serving container, and the entire content of the product must be labeled as one serving."
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- bobthepanda 3y agoThere is also the rather annoying thing where you can round so a tic tac is allowed to say it has zero grams of sugar, despite being nearly all sugar.
- nostromo 3y agoThis is why there are standard sizes in the US. So you can compare products and smaller products aren’t able to advertise as low calorie.
- TylerE 3y agoBut that's exactly what they're doing! Note the "Serving Size: 1 piece (0.49g)" https://commonplacefacts.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/img_0706.jpg https://commonplacefacts.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/img_070...
- gnicholas 3y agoTrue, you can compare tic-tacs to other similar candies, and discover that they all have zero grams of sugar, apparently.
- notjulianjaynes 3y agoI noticed this insanity on a spray can of Pam the other day as well. "0" calories if you only spray it for 1/4 second.
- thfuran 3y agoYes, I've seen a can of spray oil for sale with 0 fat per serving and some 1,500 servings per container. It's ridiculous.
- tekla 3y agoif you're eating enough tic tacs for this to matter, you have bigger issues
- ramblenode 3y agoThis is the most glaring flaw of the system. The per serving amount is often arbitrary or misleading and just adds noise. I would rather know the total for everything inside the container and estimate my own serving.
- michelsedgh 3y agoI think no one has actually made a nutrition facts label here, but when you are making it, it is sooo easy to manipulate it to get what you want and in practice, most of the customers, like 85-90% of them don’t look at the serving size, they just look at how much and get deceived. I think most food companies know this deep down and use it.
- HWR_14 3y agoWhen's the last time you checked? Because the FDA did fix that issue (although it happened very recently, I believe during the pandemic). There are exceptions where the manufacturer can (a) put both the recommended servings and total package size as two columns and (b) can still use servings if the non-resealable container contains 2 or more servings (e.g. a party sized bag of chips).