There is no way this is 0 calories or even under 5 calories per serving like the label says.
Ingredients include vegetable oil, cane sugar, honey, parmesan cheese, etc.
It’s super rich tasting (and honestly very good) but there’s no way the label is remotely accurate. It tastes like 80 calories per tbsp, honestly.
Anybody else have thoughts on this?
by surgeimports
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I think they get away with it because the serving suggestion is so small. You would have to get the overall calories of the bottle and do the math. If you don’t eat that much I would just log it as 10.
Wouldn’t be shocked if there’s serving size shenanigans happening here. The serving size is listed as 1 teaspoon/5 ml. As long as it’s less than 5 calories per listed serving it can *technically* be called 0 calorie (per the FDA).
Can’t be 0 calories unless it’s made with water, or alcohol sweeteners and that’s it.
Each 1 tsp has 1 gram of carbohydrate and 1 gram of added sugar- immediately that’s 8 kcalories total.
The protein amount is insignificant, and doesn’t meaningfully contribute to total kcalorie.
Just round up the number to 10 kcalories.
lol i always knew it was too good to be true. I can drink that stuff!
Going by the macros, is 4.4 calories per teaspoon. There’s 1 carb and .1 protein.
How much of this sauce are you using?
It’s not fake, as long as it’s 2 – 5 calories per serving they’re qualified to market it as 0 cal.
My bottle of avocado oil is 130 calories per tablespoon. My spray avocado is 0 per 1/4 second spray. Not sure how anyone times that out, or that people believe its calories are suddenly negated.
Same as those 0 kcal oil sprays. People use that spray generously, thinking it is 0kcal when in truth it is calorie dense oil. They use the serving size trick, which is illegal in Europe but common in America
If you’re going to be tracking calories, you should do some due diligence and research on how these labels work.
FDA allows for a margin of error of up to 20% OVER and UNDER what’s reported on the label. A ton of labels aren’t right, but for most humans the issues aren’t large enough to really impact results. Having said that, companies DO get sued over stuff like errors. Recent lawsuits include BIG names too, like Kellog’s, Dave’s Killer Bread, Kind bars, Kraft, and Gerber just to name a few.
It’s worse than you think as there’s ALSO no official channel to submit these labels to for approval. It’s on the company and the factories they use to provide the correct labels. Genepro Protein is a good example of this as their claim that their protein containing 30 grams of protein per tablespoon was incorrect and was actually closer to 10.
Labels not showing calories per 100g should be illegal
If it’s around 5 calories per tsp, that’s around 15 per table I’d think since it’s about 15 mL per tbsp. I love Melinda’s but did not like that hot sauce haha. But idk if worrying over the calories in a hot sauce is very helpful imo.
This is my favorite condiment and i abuse tf out of it. I always knew it couldnt be 0 cal, but now these people breaking down the potential macros is giving me anxiety because i burn through bottles of this stuff 🤣
There’s no way you can taste something and say it’s 80 calories. that’s….I don’t even know. I at times still struggle with ED and I’ve never ever said this tastes like x calories. It’s a new level of delulu.
# Put it on a chicken sandwich
The dose makes the poison.
Table spoon is 15ml approx so it should be 13 calories for 15ml, not 80. Whole bottle is probably around 300 calories