ok, so I was at the grocery store the other day and I was buying cottage cheese. I looked on the back of the no fat and the 1% low fat...

They both had 13 g protein 5 carbs, and then 0 fat for the no fat one, and 1.5g fat for the 1% one.

Guess what... THEY BOTH HAD THE SAME AMOUNT OF CALORIES! How the hell can they say that?! They both had the same serving size and everything...

it was 1/2 cup of 113 grams per serving with 80 calories.

Is there some messed up rule where they can be lenient with reporting that stuff?

It was both the same companies cottage cheese too!

WHY?!

I've noticed things like this before too. Not with cottage cheese, but on other stuff. It's pretty fu**ed up, huh!?

The nutrition information on most food products is "ballpark"

Meaning it is fairly close, but not exact.

Also, it's because they have the same serving size that the caloric values per serving are the same. What's not there in fat per serving is made up for with more carbs/proteins/water, keeping the serving size (in volume) the same.

yep, batch to batch variations mean that even with computerized equipment, two slices of bread from even the same loaf might have a 5 calorie variation between them.

due to the rounding of values, they likely didn't bother recalculating anything when they created the food facts label at the factory.

there's a ton of products out there that, if you take the calorie totals for fat, protein and carbs...it doesn't equal the total calories on the label. plus, .4g of trans fat can be called 0g.

skim milk can have .5% milk fat, but fat free milk must be 0%

my favorite is a can of starkist white albacore tuna. it'll say there's 2.5 servings a can, which should be like 5 oz, but when you weigh it, its more like 3.4 oz.
you wouldn't think they'd count the water its packed in...

that's crazy stuff, I thought this kind of thing was more regulated..