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Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄

Yeah, it’s rounding. Under a certain amount, it just rounds to zero. No one is actually using the recommended serving size. There should be legal requirements to always provide the information for the full amount in the package/container/bottle/whatever as well next to the other values (some countries at least sometimes do this).

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osanna@lemmy.vg ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
In Australia, we have per serving and per 100g/ml/etc to make it clear

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- Rothe@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  EU as well. (the 100gr. is mandatory).
  
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- farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yeah, here in Japan as well. I think really enforcing realistic serving sizes (no one is going to accurately do 0.25s) in labeling would also help the US.
  
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  - huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    help the US
    
    The US people? Yes The US corporations? No
    
    Who do you think matters?
    
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    farmgineer@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I meant help people in the US get accurate information on what they’re consuming.
    
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  - osanna@lemmy.vg ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Definitely. It’s pretty egregious that they can get away with saying 0 kcal because their serving sizes are so incredibly small.
    
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    EpeeGnome@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Under FDA rules, if there are less than 5 dietary calories in a serving, the label must round down to 0, which, yes, is super misleading. Murica!
    
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  - MrQuallzin@pie.eyeofthestorm.place ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Since it’s a spray, I assume that 0.25s is just a single pump of the spray head
    
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logi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Fun thing is, though, that 0.25g of oil is 2.2kcal and not 0.

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breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Then why not round the serving size?

The label is true for a serving size of zero. At 0.25g, it’s 0.25g of fat and 2.2 calories. The fat content is the exact same as the serving size and the calories should not round to zero. You literally can’t use the label to figure out any of the numbers if you use different amounts. It’s no different than not having a label at all.

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jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Would it be so hard to just write it in milligrams por whatever,?

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