Food Labels

[xoxoxoBruce]

Been some noise about food labeling recently, trying to cut down the obfuscation and make them understandable to the unwashed rabble. They take polls and people say overwhelmingly they want this, although I wonder how many would really use it.

Unlike clodfobble who has to fine tooth comb everything for her kids, or Ortho who actually understands much of what’s there now and cares, I don’t get into it very much except for things I eat a lot of on a regular basis.

After a trip to an artificial flower and home decorating outlet, what come out of the bag is what I assumed was mini-pretzels dipped in pale blue chocolate for Easter. My experience with chocolate of any weird color is yuck. But they turn out to be labeled, ”Pretzel, Mini, Blueberry Yogurt Covered”. Hmm, now I’m curious…

I wonder how many calories? OK, 190, 70 from fat.
That’s pretty high how big is a serving? Um, 40 grams.
Well that’s no help, how many servings in the bag? Variable.
Alright, I’ll just divide the weight of the whole bag by 40 and I’ll have an approximation of a serving.
Ha ha ha, silly boy… the bag weighs 0.60 lbs.

It can be done but it certainly is a lot of bother unless you’re a math and conversion whiz like Monster, most people will just eat them. Of course this kind of thing is often gobbled in the car for hunger pains developed on a shop-till-you-drop run, or to shut the whining kids up.

Of course you wouldn’t want to eat many of these, aside from the fat/calories, the list of ingredients would send a chemistry professor back to the books.