Like gym bros putting spray butter on everything because it has “zero calories,” hahahha.
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CyanFen@lemmy.one [bot] 5 months agoBut they are using a technicality that allows them to label them as 0 calories. While pickles don’t have many calories, they don’t have 0. According to fda guidelines a serving between 0-5 calories can be claimed as 0 calories and even the nutrition facts is allowed to say 0.
tamal3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
blazera@kbin.social 5 months ago
It's not a technicality, it's just rounding. Go check out the nutrition labels on various foods you got. The majority of them will be rounded to the nearest tenth. A few low calorie ones might be rounded to the nearest fifth. Less than that is for all practical purposes 0 calories. You will not get a significant amount of calories no matter how many pickles you eat. Forget the sodium and acidity, your body cant hold enough pickle mass to add up to a snack's worth of calories.
Chobbes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I mean… Couldn’t rounding be considered a technicality?