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Written by Daniel on 2024-11-10 at 20:56

Soooo … who comes up with the “serving size” on nutrition tables?

Out of curiosity, I just used the kitchen scale while preparing my Müsli for tomorrow’s breakfast. The pecan nuts, cashews, dried fruit, and whole grain oats made for a sum total of ~150 g?! And that’s without the half banana and quarter of an apple I’ll add freshly in the morning.

The oats list a serving size of 40 g — I used 70 g. 😳

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Written by fritzoids on 2024-11-10 at 21:12

@danyow

reading through the English and German Wikipedia articles for "serving size" and "Portion" it seems that either the manufacturers themselves get to decide what they call a serving and then calculate the nutrition data based on that, or you have a governing body that decides based on how much of whatever you should be eating. Consumers regularly consume more than one serving of these products, regardless.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serving_size

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Written by fritzoids on 2024-11-10 at 21:25

@danyow

I love how governing bodies and companies try to tell us how big a helping should be for two very different reasons and how people just eyeball their serving size based on "how hungry do I feel" or "how yummy is this".

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