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 Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 7:25 pm Post subject: Watching calories can be tricky |
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If you're watching your calorie intake, those nutrition information panels on food labels can be very tricky. Here's an example from NutritionAction.com:
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Pesto Change-O
Posted By Jayne Hurley On October 25, 2013
It’s bad enough that a serving of tomatoey pasta sauce is just half a cup, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (Of course, that’s all it takes to coat the FDA’s tiny one-cup serving of cooked pasta, which is more like a side dish.)
And it’s not clear if the FDA’s quarter-cup (four-tablespoon) serving for pesto would cover a cup of pasta well enough to satisfy most people.
But Whole Foods 365 Traditional Basil Pesto uses a one-tablespoon serving. It’s hard to see a good rationale for that…other than to make a sauce with 280 calories in four tablespoons look like it has just 70. |
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