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The Truth Behind Calorie Labels

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The Truth Behind Calorie Labels

Casey Neistat's short New York Times op-doc investigating how accurate restaurant and packaged-food calorie labels really are. He gets items from chains like Chipotle, Starbucks and Subway measured by nutrition researchers and compares them to the printed numbers.

Cited in threads on calorie counting as a quick, visual demonstration that labeled calories can be well off.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2016–2022

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