The old missing fat question

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Okay, on the Blue Bonnett Homestyle margarine I bought last
night,
here are the fat numbers:

Total fat: 7g
Saturated fat: 1g
Polyunsaturated fat: 3.5g
Monounsaturated fat: 1.5g
Trans fat: 0g

My arithmetic tells me that there's a gram of
fat missing. What gives? Thanks.

Chow Young Fat: 1g

David A. Smith

N:dlzc wrote on Sat, 1 Sep 2007 12:50:48 -0700:

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??>> Okay, on the Blue Bonnett Homestyle margarine I bought
??>> last night, here are the fat numbers:
??>>
??>> Total fat: 7g
??>> Saturated fat: 1g
??>> Polyunsaturated fat: 3.5g
??>> Monounsaturated fat: 1.5g
??>> Trans fat: 0g
??>>
??>> My arithmetic tells me that there's a gram of
??>> fat missing. What gives? Thanks.

NDT> Chow Young Fat: 1g

Perhaps, saturated fat 1.4g, trans fat 0.4g, legally posted as
in original, total 6.8g

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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Okay, on the Blue Bonnett Homestyle margarine I bought last night,
here are the fat numbers:

Total fat: 7g
Saturated fat: 1g
Polyunsaturated fat: 3.5g
Monounsaturated fat: 1.5g
Trans fat: 0g

My arithmetic tells me that there's a gram of
fat missing. What gives? Thanks.

Rounding.

Susan

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Quoted message said:

Okay, on the Blue Bonnett Homestyle margarine I bought last night,
here are the fat numbers:

Total fat: 7g
Saturated fat: 1g
Polyunsaturated fat: 3.5g
Monounsaturated fat: 1.5g
Trans fat: 0g

My arithmetic tells me that there's a gram of
fat missing. What gives? Thanks.

Rounding.

Susan

No. If they use decimal points (as they do) then there's no need for
rounding error any greater than the hundredths of grams.

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Okay, on the Blue Bonnett Homestyle margarine I bought last night,
here are the fat numbers:

Total fat: 7g
Saturated fat: 1g
Polyunsaturated fat: 3.5g
Monounsaturated fat: 1.5g
Trans fat: 0g

My arithmetic tells me that there's a gram of
fat missing. What gives? Thanks.

Not necessarily....remember labels average DOWN on their labels.
Another example is nonstick cooking spray that is listed as 0 fat per
serving, but it is almost all fat. Splenda and Equal claim to be 0 cal
per serving, yet there are 4 calories per packet (one serving). What
you could have is: Sat fat 1.4, polyunsat fat 3.9, Monounsaturated 1.9
grams=7.2 which they round off to 7.0 grams. dkw

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Okay, on the Blue Bonnett Homestyle margarine I bought last night,
here are the fat numbers:

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Total fat: 7g
Saturated fat: 1g
Polyunsaturated fat: 3.5g
Monounsaturated fat: 1.5g
Trans fat: 0g

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My arithmetic tells me that there's a gram of
fat missing. What gives? Thanks.

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Rounding.

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Susan

No. If they use decimal points (as they do) then there's no need for
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Make that half a gram, not hundredth of a gram. dkw

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Okay, on the Blue Bonnett Homestyle margarine I bought last night,
here are the fat numbers:

Total fat: 7g
Saturated fat: 1g
Polyunsaturated fat: 3.5g
Monounsaturated fat: 1.5g
Trans fat: 0g

My arithmetic tells me that there's a gram of
fat missing. What gives? Thanks.

Rounding.

Susan

No. If they use decimal points (as they do) then there's no need for
rounding error any greater than the hundredths of grams.

If it's a half gram or less per serving, they round down on food labels,
pretty much always. That's why a packet of say, Splenda can be called
zero carb, but a cup is loaded with carbs from the bulking agent.

Susan

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>Okay, on the Blue Bonnett Homestyle margarine I bought last night,
>here are the fat numbers:

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>Total fat: 7g
>Saturated fat: 1g
>Polyunsaturated fat: 3.5g
>Monounsaturated fat: 1.5g
>Trans fat: 0g

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>My arithmetic tells me that there's a gram of
>fat missing. What gives? Thanks.

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Rounding.

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Susan

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No. If they use decimal points (as they do) then there's no need for
rounding error any greater than the hundredths of grams.

If it's a half gram or less per serving, they round down on food labels,
pretty much always. That's why a packet of say, Splenda can be called
zero carb, but a cup is loaded with carbs from the bulking agent.

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Yes, not to mention a cup of granular Splenda listed as 0 cal per
serving acutally has 100 calories, and so would 25 packets of Splenda.
They package one serving at 4 cal. so they can round down to 0
calories. Advertising and marketing gimmick, I would say, but there
are people who given the choice between 0 calories per packet and 4
calories per packet would pick the 0 calorie-packet product. Since the
precedent was already set with Equal and Sweet n Low which came out
first, Splenda would be fools to label it any other way. dkw

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> Okay, on the Blue Bonnett Homestyle margarine I bought last night,
> here are the fat numbers:

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> Total fat: 7g
> Saturated fat: 1g
> Polyunsaturated fat: 3.5g
> Monounsaturated fat: 1.5g
> Trans fat: 0g

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> My arithmetic tells me that there's a gram of
> fat missing. What gives? Thanks.

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Rounding.

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Susan

No. If they use decimal points (as they do) then there's no need for
rounding error any greater than the hundredths of grams.- Hide quoted text -

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Make that half a gram, not hundredth of a gram. dkw

Quite right.