A study of restaurant menus in 2020 found calories were sometimes more than 20% higher than listed.
Local prosecutors in California recently filed a lawsuit against Kroger for allegedly mislabeling the calorie counts on store-name bread. The Kroger Carbmaster bread line listed just 30 calories per slice, when the bread was actually 50 calories or more per slice, according to prosecutors. And this kind of issue is way more common than you’d probably guess.
Times, is that the FDA allows food companies to choose from various methods to count calories, some of which aren’t necessarily very accurate. The L.A. Times talked with an expert at Dartmouth College’s School of Medicine, Susan B. Roberts, who has researched calorie count labeling for years. “It’s almost impossible to actually police all of these,” Roberts told the Times. “To a large extent, we’re dependent on the honesty of the food companies.” And it’s not just packaged foods.
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