Warning: Your food label could be lying to you!

Tell you what bugs the crap outta me about labels is when the labels says serves x amount. So you use your food scale and you weigh your servings per their serving size down to the exact gram, and there's no way you get the number of servings they say (and no I'm not talking about packaged by volume issue, I'm talking servings by the weight grams/ounces).

So then my question becomes, is the calorie data correct for the serving size or is the calorie data skewed and should be adjusted for the smaller content (raising the calorie count)?

For that very reason, I tend to overestimate my calorie consumption for the day just to make up for the inaccuracies of the manufacturer labeling.

But it does bug me, me being a data girl and wanting accuracy....

Tell you what bugs the crap outta me about labels is when the labels says serves x amount. So you use your food scale and you weigh your servings per their serving size down to the exact gram, and there's no way you get the number of servings they say (and no I'm not talking about packaged by volume issue, I'm talking servings by the weight grams/ounces).

So then my question becomes, is the calorie data correct for the serving size or is the calorie data skewed and should be adjusted for the smaller content (raising the calorie count)?

For that very reason, I tend to overestimate my calorie consumption for the day just to make up for the inaccuracies of the manufacturer labeling.

But it does bug me, me being a data girl and wanting accuracy....

Gosh I wish I could tell you all what I know about the food industry but just read the front page of the new york times from yesterday...the food mislabeling lawsuits