Has Anyone Realized This???

[llrockyll]

has anyone realized that if u add the calories yourself on some foods that it doesnt equal the same as whats on the package for total cals.
1g pro= 4cals
1g carb= 4cals
1g fat= 9cals

so i was wondering does everone use the cals off the package or the cals they come up with?

[CoreyTampa09]

Im not an expert but maybe there are other factors that go into the total calories of the product, maybe sugars, different type of fats equals different calories.

[DirtyDog7]

has anyone realized that if u add the calories yourself on some foods that it doesnt equal the same as whats on the package for total cals.
1g pro= 4cals
1g carb= 4cals
1g fat= 9cals

so i was wondering does everone use the cals off the package or the cals they come up with?

Do you have any example?

What is the most you have seen something be off? By how many calories?

My thoughts are that they round to the nearest gram. So 1.4 grams would be called 1 gram on the lable. But the over all calories would include the .4 gram worth of calories.

If all three (fat, Carb, Protein) were at .4, then the calories could read 6.8 Calories higher even though all three got rounded down on the lable.

[llrockyll]

1 example is the dextrose i have says 4grams per seriving 15 cals a serving should be 16 cals. and most people use atleast 10 servings so thats 10 cals less. and other foods the cals are more than what i came up with and some are less.

[thegeneral]

I saw a smoothie the other day on campus. Says it was 89 Calories. Looked it up and it had 49g of Carbs and 1g Protein... meaning it should have 200 Cals.

Wtf?

[DirtyDog7]

1 example is the dextrose i have says 4grams per seriving 15 cals a serving should be 16 cals. and most people use atleast 10 servings so thats 10 cals less. and other foods the cals are more than what i came up with and some are less.

So the serving size is really 3.75 grams and they rounded up to 4 grams for the lable. At least they give you the correct amount of calories.

[llrockyll]

thats not the correct amount of cals if there telling me that i have 4g not 3.75

[DirtyDog7]

thats not the correct amount of cals if there telling me that i have 4g not 3.75

Your not getting 4 grams, your getting 3.75. But instead of writing 3.75 grams, they rounded it to 4 grams for the lable.

[CoreyTampa09]

The General, does that smoothie maker happen to be freshens, becuase I questioned the exact same thing at my college.

[thegeneral]

YES! its a freshens smoothie. im thinking some of the carbs are sugar alcohols... but usually sugar alcohols are counted as calories anyways while the product is labeled as having fewer "effective" or "net" carbs.