Most ridiculous food label I've seen

[ShawnD1]

I was eating my Stagg Chili at work, and I noticed that it says "97% FAT FREE"

I look at the back.
Per cup (250g):
260 calories
8g fat
30g carbs
-7g fiber
-7g sugar
17g protein

(250 - 8) / 250 * 100 = 96.8% of it is not fat. You tricky bastards!

 

[highland145]

27.7% calories from fat.

 

[pontifex]

how can you have negative fiber and negative sugar?

 

[Charles Kozierok]

(250 - 8) / 250 * 100 = 96.8% of it is not fat. You tricky bastards!

That's standard.

Figure out what percentage of calories come from fat in 80/20 hamburger meat, and you'll never buy it again if you care about your health.

 

[Rakehellion]

I was eating my Stagg Chili at work, and I noticed that it says "97% FAT FREE"

I look at the back.
Per cup (250g):
260 calories
8g fat
30g carbs
-7g fiber
-7g sugar
17g protein

(250 - 8) / 250 * 100 = 96.8% of it is not fat. You tricky bastards!

Maybe it's 7.5 grams and they rounded up.

 

[highland145]

Maybe it's 7.5 grams and they rounded up.

More like it's 15g and the rounded down.

 

[Vdubchaos]

So what exactly makes this "most ridiculous food label" again?

 

[Drako]

So what exactly makes this "most ridiculous food label" again?

I believe it's the negative fiber and sugar numbers? I could be wrong though :biggrin:

 

[ShawnD1]

So what exactly makes this "most ridiculous food label" again?

It's a completely meaningless label. It's like the bag of sugar I bought that says "100% natural" as opposed to that magic fake sugar we mine on Mars.

Another fun one is "100% trans fat free!"

 

[AstroManLuca]

No, the MOST ridiculous food labeling is either when breakfast cereals set the serving size as 3/4 cup. That's not enough for even a small child to feel full. Close behind is when you buy a jar of peanuts and on the back it says "ALLERGY INFORMATION: CONTAINS PEANUTS."

 

[ShawnD1]

No, the MOST ridiculous food labeling is either when breakfast cereals set the serving size as 3/4 cup. Close behind is when you buy a jar of peanuts and on the back it says "ALLERGY INFORMATION: CONTAINS PEANUTS."

I bought a 10 pound tub of "weight gain" protein powder a few weeks ago. On the back it says "May cause weight gain."

 

[nehalem256]

I think the Non-stick cooking spray that is 100% oil and contains "zero" calories is the winner

http://www.pamcookingspray.com/non-stick-spray-products/original-spray-oil/

 

[Rakehellion]

I think the Non-stick cooking spray that is 100% oil and contains "zero" calories is the winner

http://www.pamcookingspray.com/non-stick-spray-products/original-spray-oil/

Per serving.

 

[Rakehellion]

So what exactly makes this "most ridiculous food label" again?

 

[MomentsofSanity]

I think it's the "in gravy" part that gives a true wtf moment.

 

[Mixolydian]

how can you have negative fiber and negative sugar?

It actually takes existing fiber and sugar out of your body! :whiste:

Never heard of Stagg Chili though.

 

[Rakehellion]

It actually takes existing fiber and sugar out of your body! :whiste:

It's called explosive diarrhea.

 

[Zunhs]

My favourite was on an ice-cream. It started listing ingredients as normal but finished with "and some stuff to make it taste good".

 

[pmv]

Agree that its daft, but its absolutely commonplace and has been for as long as I can remember, normal even.

Its funny that its telling you 97% of it has NO FAT AT ALL, while keeping quiet about the fact that the remaining 3% is ENTIRELY fat. And that the two parts are completely interwoven so in reality 0% of it is 'fat free', it ALL has 3% fat (by mass).

Best food labeling ever is the bottled drink I remember drinking in India.

Fruit Beer

non-alcoholic, contains no fruit

 

[bradley]

Horse meat has less fat on average (6%) vs. beef.

Yummy!

And it only contains premium cuts of horse.

 

[Rakehellion]

My favourite was on an ice-cream. It started listing ingredients as normal but finished with "and some stuff to make it taste good".

 

[Kadarin]

I was eating my Stagg Chili at work, and I noticed that it says "97% FAT FREE"

I look at the back.
Per cup (250g):
260 calories
8g fat
30g carbs
-7g fiber
-7g sugar
17g protein

(250 - 8) / 250 * 100 = 96.8% of it is not fat. You tricky bastards!

You think that's bad? Now go look at the sodium content, and then start taking your blood pressure pills.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

That's standard.

Figure out what percentage of calories come from fat in 80/20 hamburger meat, and you'll never buy it again if you care about your health.

You'll never buy anything else, if you care about flavor. Take the blue pill and strap your helmet on. Some of us enjoy food.

 

[ShawnD1]

You think that's bad? Now go look at the sodium content, and then start taking your blood pressure pills.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt

This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure. In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine—an excellent measure of prior consumption—the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease. These findings call into question the common wisdom that excess salt is bad for you, but the evidence linking salt to heart disease has always been tenuous.

So reducing your sodium intake is actually bad for you? No shit. Maybe it's because sodium is one of the most important parts of your diet.

Worries escalated in the 1970s when Brookhaven National Laboratory's Lewis Dahl claimed that he had "unequivocal" evidence that salt causes hypertension: he induced high blood pressure in rats by feeding them the human equivalent of 500 grams of sodium a day. (Today the average American consumes 3.4 grams of sodium, or 8.5 grams of salt, a day.)

So it's basically the same as those bullshit studies showing aspartame and marijuana cause brain damage and tumors. In the marijuana study, researchers forced monkeys to inhale nothing but smoke, then they reported that the monkeys had severe brain damage. No shit. The brain damage is caused by oxygen deprivation.

Intersalt, a large study published in 1988, compared sodium intake with blood pressure in subjects from 52 international research centers and found no relationship between sodium intake and the prevalence of hypertension. In fact, the population that ate the most salt, about 14 grams a day, had a lower median blood pressure than the population that ate the least, about 7.2 grams a day.

People who try to reduce their salt intake often end up feeling like shit. This is because the adrenal glands heavily rely on sodium. Reducing your salt intake below what your body needs causes extreme fatigue, confusion, headaches, and memory loss.

 

[bradley]

Excess sodium isn't problematic with sufficient potassium, of which the average American gets nowhere near the 5g RDA: the equivalent of 14 large bananas or almost six 6oz tuna cans.