They usually put a picture on the box of a ‘serving suggestion’ where the product is on a plate with a bunch of other things. So it’s five servings if each serving is a quarter of a full meal.
I’m sure that’s their excuse, but I think most people buying and heating a frozen lasagna are doing it because of time and effort, so it’s about on par with cereal companies calling their sugar pellets “part of a balanced breakfast”
I have no idea why we are even pretending servings have anything to do with what you’re supposed to eat. “Popcorn Perfect Butter Blast” has “0 fat, 0 calories” while being literally just oil i.e. pure fat because they divided 150g of it into 450 servings as if the average person i s individually buttering each piece of popcorn. Tictacs are pure sugar and round down to 0 calories and 0 sugar. I’ve seen cookies with 1/2 a cookie for the serving size. Legally they are supposed to reflect “typical consumption patterns” but it’s more like “the smallest portion the FDA will let us get away with”.
They usually put a picture on the box of a ‘serving suggestion’ where the product is on a plate with a bunch of other things. So it’s five servings if each serving is a quarter of a full meal.
I’m sure that’s their excuse, but I think most people buying and heating a frozen lasagna are doing it because of time and effort, so it’s about on par with cereal companies calling their sugar pellets “part of a balanced breakfast”
I have no idea why we are even pretending servings have anything to do with what you’re supposed to eat. “Popcorn Perfect Butter Blast” has “0 fat, 0 calories” while being literally just oil i.e. pure fat because they divided 150g of it into 450 servings as if the average person i s individually buttering each piece of popcorn. Tictacs are pure sugar and round down to 0 calories and 0 sugar. I’ve seen cookies with 1/2 a cookie for the serving size. Legally they are supposed to reflect “typical consumption patterns” but it’s more like “the smallest portion the FDA will let us get away with”.