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by toast0 1044 days ago
Don't worry, our labels say calories, but are really kilocalories.

The serving sizes are often in imperial (although the closest label shows serving size 1 can). The quantities of fat, sodium, sugar, protein are all grams or milligrams for sodium. But ounces and grams for those things are equally unrelatable for me. I don't consider the mass of these items, I just know them as a quantity on a label. If I were cooking and adding sugar or salt, it would be by volume, not mass.