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by sebazzz 1038 days ago
Per 100g or 100ml is mandatory, but it is allowed to show per serving (for instance a hand of M&Ms).
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baal80spam 1038 days ago
> for instance a hand of M&Ms

An excellent example of "serving" stupidity. How big a hand? Child's hand? Adult's hand? Bodybuilder's? Woman? Man? Full? Kind of full?

I have absolutely no idea what a "serving of cheese" constitutes.

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sebazzz 1038 days ago
True, but it is mentioned what a serving is. For instance: "Portion (40g)"
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philsnow 1038 days ago
Sure, but the serving size can vary, even between different package sizes of the exact same product, and certainly between different manufacturers.

Overall, humans are dumb and can't (or won't) do math in their heads. Consider the stupid thing with the failed 1/3 lb burger positioned in the market against the 1/4 lb burger ( https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fr... ).

If one product says "5g fat / serving [serving size: 40g]" and another says "4g fat / serving [serving size: 30g]", many many people will think that the second one has lower fat content.

If these were normalized to 100g, it would be clear that the first has 5/40*100 = 12.5g of fat whereas the second has 4/30*100 = 13.3g of fat.

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makeset 1037 days ago
Right, not a chance with all those bodybuilders training for hand hypertrophy.
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guyzyl 1038 days ago
A hand is a really bad to measure things, it's good no other arbitrarily sized body parts are used for exact measurements in the US.
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