Are Fast Food Calorie Counts Accurate?

27 Feb 2012

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Think the new regulations that require fast food chains to display the nutrition facts for their foods means that you'll know exactly how many calories your hamburger will be? Think again.

CNN's Elizabeth Cohen on one researcher who says fast food calorie counts are off, sometimes by 100 calories or more.

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Reggie Corpus October 17, 2011 at 10:11 am Log in to Reply

"Before the FDA first introduced the nutrition facts label in 1992, choosy Americans puzzled over a tiny printed listing of ingredientÂs on packages to help determine what to feed their families."Â... If you simply look at calories, sodium, etc, you can get that from good and very bad foods. I discovered a good resource for FDA labeling requirements at http://www.registrarcorp.com/fda-food/labeling/regulations.jsp?lang=en
Jesse EngAmer September 14, 2011 at 3:31 am Log in to Reply

The FDA wants you to know every little thing thatâ€™s in your food. So why arenâ€™t they publicizing the amount of insects and rot and mold and even feces and more thatâ€™s allowed in your food? Just check out their Defect Levels Handbook. http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/GuidanceDocuments/Sanitation/ucm056174.htm
sharingnews September 10, 2011 at 10:31 am Log in to Reply

Go check your average bag of shredded cheese and see what the preservative to "Keep freshness and prevent clumping" is made of- more than likely a form of gluten. Buy block cheese and it will more than likely not have gluten.
nighthawksc September 8, 2011 at 6:53 pm Log in to Reply

Genetically Modified foods were first put on the market in the early 1990's, At least that is what we are told. We could have been guinea pigs years before we were told. In a sense we still are. As usual, when our generation are probably near death, they will come out and tell us about the real harms of GM foods. Kinda like with other things that take years to do damage.
FoodGeekBear September 8, 2011 at 5:24 pm Log in to Reply

FDA has nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. That is handled by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, a division of the Justice Department. But if anyone contracts common sense in Washington DC, we can push for a single food agency, and put alcoholic beverages under that.

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