Suggested serving sizes have never been realistic. Manipulated by the manufacturer to make us think the food is lower in calories than it actually is.
In reality we all serve ourselves a fifth of a jar. List THOSE calories on the label please.
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Peanut butter typically has a serving size of one or two tablespoons. That's entirely reasonable.
No that's not reasonable wtf
Maybe for someone with a peanut allergy. The rest of us are out here using cups.
Half my diet was stopping eating peanut butter. The other half was drinking less. Helth
Oh you sunuvabitch!
Peanut butter is delicious but it's basically the neutron star of food calories! Makes me sad.
That's one of the reasons peanut butter is an incredible survival food. Nutrient/calorie dense, doesn't need refrigeration, shelf stable for a long long time, it's delicious. It checks a lot of boxes that not many other foods can.
I'll do more pushups before I eat less peanut butyerm calories ain't bad if you're using them!
15 ml of natural peanut butter equals about 200 pushups. You're gonna be ripped!
Fuck...
This is the one of the top signs that we're living in a simulation.
It's the recommended serving sizes that are out of touch with reality.
I'm pretty sure that most of the time, you can't see them with the naked eye.
Yeah, it should be illegal to list serving sizes that disconnected from reality. They should be MANDATED to have the first column list the nutrition information for the container as a whole, and then let them put whatever ridiculous lie, but it should only be allowed in a second column, that I can ignore after seeing the first column that shows what the container actually contains.
I don't know how they do it elsewhere, but here in New Zealand, they put "per 100g" measurements on the labels which are really helpful.
Everything in the US is a scam.
It's not me that's out of touch with reality, peanut butter jar.
Aren't the serving sizes intentionally small so they can get away with saying that stuff has less sugar?
Tic tacs have a serving size of less than a gram so they can claim 0g of sugar.
Only in America. Always thought that was a weird law.
Smaller portion = less sugar, fat, salt, calories etc... If I remember correctly a few states have addressed making unrealistic portion sizes for the label as making misleading claims.
Nutrients should always be listed in pr 100g or in percent (effectively the same).
As someone who, if anything, wants to gain weight, this has the inverse effect for me. Peanut butter is great because it's so dense with calories. (I try to avoid sugar though, but I don't think peanut butter has much added sugar, but I'll have to check next time I have some.)
I know I'm in the minority though. I'm a 6ft tall man who weighs ~125-130lb. I was stuck at 120 for a decade or more, and only recently have put on a couple more pounds. I don't have an eating disorder or anything, but I just struggle to put on weight, so my serving sizes personally for peanut butter are way higher than average.
Yeah well fuck you
They are almost always 1 oz (28g).
But, individually packaged stuff does tend to pull bullshit like “1 serving=half a bottle of soda”
Peanut butter is probably going to be fine though
I saw a wrapped item that did the opposite, which was weird. It was a pack of 3 pieces and a serving was 4.
Probably to hit some magic number:
Contains 10 g of protein per serving!!^*^
^*^Serving size 10 kg
What is this, lettuce?!
Depends on the quantity of parasites on the lettuce
Wtf peanut butter you get into that's got sugar?
Looked into it, could not find a peanut butter jar whose nutritional facts did not have sugar. Most common amount was 3g per serving.
Serving size was 2 tablespoons, or 32 grams. That doesn't actually sound that unreasonalsble for a pb&j to me.
nonetheless that is shit peanut butter. Yes, it's all got sugars in it
Any excuse to put corn into everything. Otherwise US farmers might have to go back to growing diverse crops instead the environmentally destructive monocrops. Won't you think think of the investors?
Monocropping is destructive, corn is fine.
You guys get multiple servings from a jar?
A serving size of peanut butter is one.
One spoon.
One inch.
One jar.
etc.
This is why I serve my peanut butter in cheese wheel form. 1 inch thick but 18 inches wide.
Given that the most typical use is spreading it on a slice of bread, I’ll argue, no I’m not out of touch, everyone else is. When the “serving size” can’t fill the expected use case, it’s not the consumer that’s wrong
One slice is two servings, clearly.
That’s a European serving. The rest of the jar is one Texan serving.
we don't even list serving sizes on our stuff, just nutrients per 100g so you can count it yourself
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The trick is to use the back of the spoon to scoop it out! Makes spreading so much easier.
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