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

• Daedskin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s rounded to the nearest multiple of 10; it could be up to 5 (exclusively), and could still be listed as 0. It’s why so many lower-calorie products are listed with a zero-calorie serving size in the US. I’m not sure about the specifics of regulations — if any exist — on selecting serving sizes; this particular example feels a little fishy to me.

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  • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s an arbitrary rounding I’ve yet to see in packagings here. A lot of calorie numbers end in other values. Yeah the comma is usually rounded but that’s it.

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• Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think you can round down and be off by a certain percentage.

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  • jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What’s 20 or 50% between friends?

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• huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because it is 0g fat

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  • logi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’re multiplying by the 0.25g serving size, then rounding the 0.25g of fat down to 0g and calculating the calories from that? I can barely imagine the apoplectic rage this would have triggered in my experimental physics professor.

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because they are allowed to do their own testing to determine caloric quantity and there is often some flubbing in the recipe during the testing. Kinda like how VWs used to have a different engine mode for emissions tests than normal driving.

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