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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 3 days ago (4 children)

People SEVERELY underestimate how many calories are in food. I've seen people online estimate that a snickers bar is only 40 kcal.

[–] stray@pawb.social 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's especially weird with packaged food because it says right on it.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

> implying people read nutritional labels.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

implying people read nutritional labels closely.

There is nothing more fucking annoying to me than some of the portion size bullshit on packages. Like, when I have a bowl of fruit loops, I'm going to have a bowl, not a tablespoon*. Either give me the whole fucking package worth of calories (which... seriously some people need) or at least be realistic with portion sizes. I know it's an estimate, but I'm pretty sure companies love to make their crap sound better than it is by giving the minimum.

Edit: * - I call out fruit loops but I haven't actually looked them in a long time now, so my example is not real world. As someone paying attention to this across a lot of different products though, it's been really grinding my gears and I needed to rant. XD

I don't know how it is where you are, but here there's always nutritional information per 100g, in addition to the portion sizes. So I always ignore everything but the per 100g, and compare the macronutrient distribution that way

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I severely overestimate my calories if it’s food and not booze. I think I’ve been eating 1000-1300cal daily, but I really gotta not drink more than I eat.

[–] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

beer is the thing that really tips the scales in my life. god damn you wonderful precious fermented grain water give it to me

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 1 points 3 days ago

liquid bread..... with drugs :)

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’m guessing a mini is that or higher. Who’s teaching these people nutrition??

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago

no one. that's the problem.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

In America? No one.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

According to the post, 41 grams of snickers has 200 calories. 40 kcal or 40000 calories is 8.2kg of snickers. If anything they would be vastly overestimating the amount of calories...

[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

1 kcal = 1 "food Calorie", yes it's confusing.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ok, so TIL, but also the post has 200 cal, not Cal which would be kcal.

Edit: Ok I'm wrong. It says Cal