Why do food companies have to screw around with the public when it comes to their nutrition labels? A can of soup that should contain two servings is labeled as 2.5 servings. A can of stew that should contain three servings is labeled as 3.5 servings. I run into this kind of thing constantly. Yesterday I bought a package of baked chicken strips. There are nine chicken strips per package. Common sense would suggest that a serving is three strips and there are therefore three servings per package. Is that what the label says? No. The label says a serving is two chicken strips and that there are 4.5 servings per package. I’m surprised that a carton of 12 eggs doesn’t say a serving is 2/3 of an egg, and that the carton therefore contains 18 servings.
Of course, we all know why they do this. They do it to whittle down the number of calories per serving, with the additional benefit of appearing to offer more food per container. But no one is going to eat a half serving. All their whittling does is make it more difficult to know how many calories you’re eating. Instead of glancing at the label, you have to pull out your calculator. Hello, food companies: you’re just annoying us. Please stop.
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