Monday, November 15, 2021

why it's hard to trust nutrition websites

How many grams of carbs are in 100 g of bacon? Depends whom you ask.

The site Nutritionx says: 1.8 g per 105 g, which is 1.71 g per 100 g.
The site FatSecret says: 1.43 g per 100 g.
And MyFitnessPal says: 1 g per 100 g.

How much fat is in 100 g of heavy cream?

Nutritionx says: 36 g.
FatSecret says: 37 g.
MyFitnessPal says: 20 g (huh?).

So MyFitnessPal, which I use, may be shorting me on the numbers. I hear there's an app called Cronometer that's supposed to be much better and more accurate. Maybe I should think about switching to that.



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