I’ve been around the block a time or two… never have I EVER seen such a high cal content for a dumpling ? I placed a delivery order so I didnt check the label at the store… I just assumed it was low cal like every other kind I’ve ever had.
Super sad if true because it’s screwed up my count for the day lol
Should I believe the label?
by turtleshaveshortlegz
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How big are these dumplings that have 9g protein each?
How big is each one? Do you know if that is dark and white meat? Unless they put a tablespoon of oil and 3-4 tsp of sugar per dumpling I don’t see how one dumpling can be 160 calories unless these are king sized dumplings.
26g of carbs and that amount of sodium also seems way off. I’m guessing this is a labelling error – but 160 for the whole container seems low too! I’d ask the Customer Service desk.
FWIW, the Trader Joe’s Frozen Vegetable Gyozas are 160 calories for 3. They look to be about the same size.
There can’t be 9x(26+9+2) grams of carbs/protein/fats in the package if the whole thing only weighs 227 grams.
It is definitely wrong because it says there are 9 servings and each one has 26 g of carbs. That alone adds up to 234 g but the package is 227 g. So there is definitely a mistake somewhere.
Find what company they source their product from. The store I work at uses InovAsian for our dumplings. You can look on the company’s website (or just find their product in a store) to see the real facts. Those pre-print labels are always sooooo wrong, whether it be the nutrition info, cooking info, sale info or literally anything else 😂
I’m assuming it’s a measure of 100g, which is standard to store calorie information as, they just haven’t stated that or multiplied it by pack/serving size?
That would imply that each is 25g so 4 are 160cal? Which feels more accurate…
It states 227g (8oz) for the package of 9 dumplings, so ~ 25g each. If they were pure fat at 9 calories/gram they could indeed be even higher calorie at 25×9 = 225 calories. The package though states 26g carb + 9g protein + 2g fat = 37g .. which is higher than 25g and so can’t possibly be correct. The ratio of carb/protein/fat also at 26/9/2 would yield ~ 4.2 calories per gram overall so 105 calories (assuming no water weight) not 160. Dumplings are pretty dense without much water weight, and label can’t possibly be right, but assuming at least that’s 9 total dumplings that weigh 8oz combined the calories are probably somewhere from 75 to 225, the average of which is 150 soooo… close ?
As someone who worked at that store and currently working at another, portion sizes are not followed very well and the people making the scale labels are just using the info the vendor gives them.
Another fun thing I learned from this industry is a lot of places use the same vendors. The companies will just make brand specific products for places like Whole Foods that have a restriction on what ingredients they can carry in store
This is wild. I’m in the UK and our Itsu dumplings are like 150 calories for 5 dumplings. They’re probably a bit smaller but still, it feels like a lot for such few calories!
That does seem really off compared to the frozen gyoza I buy. I can eat five of those for less than 200 calories.
They’re not teriyaki; I usually get prawn, or chicken and vegetable, but I still wouldn’t expect the difference to be anywhere near that big.
I worked for whole foods in the department that prepares this stuff and i’d say about 25% of the prepared foods are improperly labeled. Usually because a different ingredient was used or in this case the dumplings came from a different vendor and the person who prepared this just printed out whatever label for dumplings. DO NOT TRUST THEIR LABELS. My store sent someone into anaphylactic shock because our usual pesto has no pine nuts so it’s not on the label, but we were out so someone grabbed a pesto off the shelf- that had pine nuts. I literally quit over this, I pointed it out over and over and I could see a clear solution but management above store level is incompetent. I have an allergy myself and couldn’t stand the carelessness!
So yeah DO NOT TRUST THEIR LABELS- for calories or ingredients/allergens!!!!!
Can’t tell how big they are.
2×9+26×4+9×4 = 158ish calories so 160 for those macros is right, but that makes 37g in total.
I reckon the difference is the sauce, 2tbsp is very little it’s easy to eyeball that wrong and with you estimating 120 cal for 2tbsp those cals add up fast. There’s 6g added sugar in a 37g serving which seems to me like sweet chilli sauce and not meat and veg dumplings amount of sugar? Plus you said the biggest dumpling was 21g so it makes sense the rest of the packet weight is sauce to make it up to 227g.
For the packet the calories should be 227/37×160 = 981g.
My best guess is a serving is actually 1.5 dumplings but it got rounded to 1 on the label. That makes 6 servings of [1.5 dumplings (~30g) + 0.5tbsp sauce (~7g)] in the bag with each serving being 37g/160 cals. This makes sense if each dumpling is 20g, 9 is 180g, then 47g sauce is about 3tbsp, making 227g with a half tbsp of sauce allocated to each serving.
160×6 is 960 which is not far off the reverse engineered value of 981 from the beginning.
If 180 cals are sauce, then the 9 dumplings are about 800 calories, which is about 89 cals each, which is more realistic for a dumpling.
Not sure if this makes sense anywhere else other than in my head but it’s the best guess I can think of.
It says ”per serving”. A serving is probably like three of them.
I think they screwed up the label. Dumplings are typically 160 for three, not one. I eat gyoza regularly most packages say 150-170 for three dumplings.