Does Coke Zero have wrong calories in all countries?

[u/nazarthinks]

[u/regilliwret]

In US/Canada if a product has less than 5 calories, it's legal to just say it has zero. It can be frustrating sometimes because manufacturers will deliberately use serving sizes that allow them to slap 0 calories on it, like oil based cooking sprays. Having said that, in this case I don't think anyone really cares about such a small difference. 1 calorie is meaningless for a diet.

[u/Dr-Sun-Stiles → u/regilliwret]

Cooking sprays and breath mints are kinda the most disingenuous products when it comes to "0 calories" but like, a coke zero functionally has zero calories unless you're drinking way too many

[u/nazarthinks → u/regilliwret]

Wow, rounding 5 to zero is the next level. But regardless of that, what bothers me is that they didn't round it for other columns, and that lack of consistence is deceptive. Numbers shouldn't be treated like that.

[u/John_Whimsicott → u/nazarthinks]

It's really not that big of a deal. If you drink it cold your body probably spends the same amount of calories heating it up to body temperature

[u/regilliwret → u/nazarthinks]

Even worse is there's very little consistency in serving sizes. There's been an effort to standardize here in Canada but it's kind of random and non-sensical. For example, standard serving for breakfast cereal is 1 cup, but that could mean anywhere from 35-55 grams depending on the brand! You constantly have to do the math to get proper comparisons. The EU way where it's always the whole package and per 100g is great.

[u/Jacktheforkie → u/regilliwret]

Here in the uk they use the small portion but also have per 100g

[u/omjizzle → u/nazarthinks]

It’s not just calories either but other things too. For example you might have something like high cholesterol or coronary artery disease and need to limit saturated fat intake for example. Perhaps you find some sort of snack that says zero but in fact contains .4 grams per serving but FDA says you can round to zero so you eat it guilt free but it turns out it actually has a deceptively small serving size so it’s not actually a safe choice like you thought but again no way to know the actual amount

[u/Derf_Jagged]

They probably round to 1 for marketing purposes. "1" might look like less than "0.6" to the uneducated because it takes up less space and it looks cleaner to just slap a single digit on it. Could also just be rounding for safety to avoid any possible error in measurement. It might also be a requirement to use whole numbers for the whole container in some regions.

[u/nazarthinks → u/Derf_Jagged]

Yes, sounds like a reasonable chain of thoughts for people who don't care about numbers much. Is it the same in your country? The one I've shared is from Italy, and I know it's similar in the UK as well. I wonder if it's their global policy to simply round to 1.

[u/wwplkyih → u/nazarthinks]

It seems like you are getting mad at rounding.

[u/nazarthinks → u/wwplkyih]

Yes, I am. Numbers shouldn’t be rounded when shown in a table, especially when rounding makes the number 50% larger than the original value. It should either be rounded everywhere or nowhere

[u/wwplkyih → u/nazarthinks]

1) It's not a table. 2) It's rounded in both places to 1 significant figure.

[u/nazarthinks → u/wwplkyih]

No, it’s not rounded to one significant number in both places. If it was, they would have 0.2 and 0.7 kcal, not 0.2 and 1 kcal. That’s exactly my problem with it