Iris
Full Member
Are you wary of any calorie-counted foods?
I mean, do you doubt the accuracy of the calorie count, or feel uncomfortable eating it because it just -has- to be more than the label says it is?
There's a pack from Asda's Good For You range. '2 Cheese & Chive filled Jacket Potatoes,' 400g. The pack says that it's 170 calories for half (one spud), 340 for the two. It also says that it's 97 calories per 100g.
Here's the nutritional breakdown on the pack (per 100g):
Energy: 97kcal
Protein: 4.7g
Carbohydrate: 16.2g
Fat: 1.5g
Saturates: 0.9g
Fibre: 2.7g
The column for 'per half pack' which should be 200g (right?) reads:
Energy: 170kcal
Protein: 8.2g
Carbohydrate: 28.4g
Fat: 2.6g
Saturates: 1.6g
Fibre: 4.7g
The thing is, like every yo-yo dieter and former binger worth her salt, I've eaten my share of small meals and of whopping great mountains. Eating two of these potatoes feels like a binge. It feels like 700-800 calories. Is it possible they've miscalculated and it's actually 340 for one potato/half the pack?
The reason I'm wary is because I know that Asda's fresh egg pasta has an incorrect calorie count on its label. I once ate half a pack after kidding myself it was okay due to the ridiculously low calorie count on the label. After examining it more closely, I realised they'd screwed up and applied the calories for a cooked weight to that of the uncooked weight.
What do you guys think? Any foods that you've tried that you feel are inaccurately represented in the calorie stakes?
How rigorously are these things checked and verified?
I mean, do you doubt the accuracy of the calorie count, or feel uncomfortable eating it because it just -has- to be more than the label says it is?
There's a pack from Asda's Good For You range. '2 Cheese & Chive filled Jacket Potatoes,' 400g. The pack says that it's 170 calories for half (one spud), 340 for the two. It also says that it's 97 calories per 100g.
Here's the nutritional breakdown on the pack (per 100g):
Energy: 97kcal
Protein: 4.7g
Carbohydrate: 16.2g
Fat: 1.5g
Saturates: 0.9g
Fibre: 2.7g
The column for 'per half pack' which should be 200g (right?) reads:
Energy: 170kcal
Protein: 8.2g
Carbohydrate: 28.4g
Fat: 2.6g
Saturates: 1.6g
Fibre: 4.7g
The thing is, like every yo-yo dieter and former binger worth her salt, I've eaten my share of small meals and of whopping great mountains. Eating two of these potatoes feels like a binge. It feels like 700-800 calories. Is it possible they've miscalculated and it's actually 340 for one potato/half the pack?
The reason I'm wary is because I know that Asda's fresh egg pasta has an incorrect calorie count on its label. I once ate half a pack after kidding myself it was okay due to the ridiculously low calorie count on the label. After examining it more closely, I realised they'd screwed up and applied the calories for a cooked weight to that of the uncooked weight.
What do you guys think? Any foods that you've tried that you feel are inaccurately represented in the calorie stakes?
How rigorously are these things checked and verified?