23 times food packaging completely lied about reality that’ll make you trust not

[Mackin USA]

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2017/03/01/23-times-food-packaging-completely-lied-reality-thatll-make-trust-nothing-ever/

NUMBER 22 

[rcjordan]

Related to the above and diets:

In the US, food companies are legally allowed a massive margin of error in labeling nutrition data such as carbs and calories.  This is, in part, due to historical  reasons; neither processing nor sampling were all that accurate in the past and companies rightfully feared lawsuits.  The other reason, of course, is lobbying.

This really hits low-carb diets pretty hard, particularly on the 20 carb/day routine.  Many items take mathmatical rounding to the extreme to get to zero carb. The serving size is reduced until they get below 1 carb --voila' ZERO!  But the listed amount is far below the normal serving size, so the end result is that the dieter really consumed 2-3 carbs in that 0-carb condiment, salad dressing, whatever.  That hidden carb creep adds up in a day's time.

TL;DR; Companies Lie!

[rcjordan]

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Oh, BTW, we're not going to starve after the apocalypse:

https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/meet-the-scientists-who-are-making-bread-with-cockroach-flour

[ergophobe]

>>cockroach flour

Bought one of these in the airport
https://exoprotein.com/

Broke my normal vegetarianism to eat some cricket. To be quite honest, it didn't taste great, which probably explains why there's more sugar than protein in these guys.

At least it was exactly as advertised. I didn't open the package and find a chocolate bunny in there!