Wed, May-06-20, 13:28
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Senior Member
Posts: 10,154
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Plan: LC--Atkins
Stats: 195/158/150
BF:
Progress: 82%
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Keep reading those labels
I don't buy many foods that come with packaging, let alone labels of ingredients. However, I got a craving for dill pickles and picked up a big jar of Kosher dill spears with a famous brand from the Costco refrigerator.
When I fished up one for lunch, it tasted incredibly sweet. Immediately I thought, They don't put sugar in dill pickles...do they?? Check label.
No, they didn't put sugar in these dill pickles, thank goodness.
However, I got to reading the Nutrition Facts, and discovered one of those weaselly things packers do to make you think you're getting a nutritional bargain of some kind. The facts listed Carbs at less than 1gm per serving. Great!
But what is a "serving" according to this label? One Half of one spear of dill pickle. Who eats one half of a dill pickle spear???
I can handle one carb of pickle. But I didn't appreciate the fudged numbers, if not the deception, of that nutrition label. It's a kind of sticker shock I'll mostly avoid in the future.
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