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 Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 12:44 pm Post subject: Watch food serving size carefully when counting calories |
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I've been deceived by this Amy's product too.
From Calories in Food, issued by NutritionAction.com:
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Watch out… the calories listed on Amy’s Cheese Enchilada cover only half of what's inside
August 9, 2013
Author: Jayne Hurley in: Calories in Food
Amy’s Cheese Enchilada may seem like a 240- calorie bargain (though its 6 grams of saturated fat and 440 milligrams of sodium aren’t exactly low).
Look again. The Nutrition Facts on the box are for just one of the two small enchiladas that are inside. Eat them both and your bargain morphs into about a quarter of a day’s calories and half a day’s sodium and sat fat.
The FDA’s serving size for enchilada-plus-sauce is about 7 ounces. Each of Amy’s enchiladas weighs 4.5 ounces. But thanks to a loophole in the labeling rules for foods that come in “small discrete units,” Amy’s can pretend that one enchilada is a serving.
You’re not fooling us, kiddo. |
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