Curious why a can of Orange Fanta lists 160 calories despite containing 43 grams of sugar adding up to 172 calories? 🤔 Let’s break it down. #OrangeFanta #Calories #SugarContent
Understanding Caloric Value:
– Caloric values on food labels consider more than just sugar content.
– Factors like protein, fat, and other carbohydrates contribute to the total calorie count.
Sugar Content vs. Caloric Value:
– The caloric value of sugar is not solely based on the number of grams.
– The processing of sugars and other ingredients influences the overall calorie count.
Labeling and Regulations:
– Food labeling regulations may allow for rounding of calorie counts.
– Manufacturers may adjust calorie values to comply with regulations.
In conclusion, the listed calorie count of 160 for Orange Fanta may take into account various factors beyond just sugar content. Keep in mind that food labels are regulated and may not always reflect a straightforward calculation. #FoodLabels #CalorieCount #HealthyChoices
Because of approximations.
For starters the “4 calories per gram” rule your applying isn’t exact. It’s usually something closer to 3.7-3.9 depending on what exactly the ‘sugar’ is.
Similarly, the numbers on nutrition labels are not exact. Calories over 50 are rounded to the nearest 10, so “160” calories means between 155 and 165. Similarly for carbs anything over 1g gets rounded to the nearest gram, so “43g” means between 42.5 and 43.5.
This wouldn’t really be a chemistry question, more of a food state department regulation question
I’s not refined sugar but corn syrup which is 3kcal/gram not four. So that’s 132kcal from sugars and 28 left for everything else.
mostly the calories are calculated per 100 ml or another smaller quantity than the can itself
Because do you want a, wanta a Fanta?
Now, to add on top of all this, I worked as quality control for Coca Cola, so I actually did a lot of these analyses. What can also make the sugar content inaccurate is just artifacts in production. We do our best to control everything as best as possible, but the mixing vats are enormous, and we have multiple parameters to keep between certain values.
For example, for Fanta: Citric Acid levels, pH, Sugar content and Vitamin C levels.
Sometimes there is no way to get all of these within the desired values, and one of them has to be slightly off. As the Fanta arrives as pre-made syrup, that has slight variations per production batch, and the only control we have is how much water to add, we have to choose which values we absolutely need correct, and which can be slightly off. The sugar being a bit off is legally less a problem than the Vitamin C levels being off.
With cola it would be the caffeine levels that have to be spot on.
Now, as we’re in the EU, and we use Sucrose and not corn syrup, that means the sucrose can sometimes split into Fructose and Glucose. But the measuring tool we use doesn’t see a difference between these three, so it will count a sucrose as “one sugar”, but if it splits it will count it double. So the amount by weight is the same, but the measurements are a bit off. We actually have to account for this. The longer a tank of mixed coke stands before going to the cans, or bottles, the bigger this effect becomes.
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In case anyone asks, yes, we could drink all the coke and coke related products we wanted during our shift.
Luckily we also bottled mineral and sparkling water.
I’d be very interested in the taste of coca cola if you put lets say just the half amount of sugar in the recipe, but the rest stays the same. I cant stand the taste of Aspartame and 10g/100ml is too much for me. Is it a big difference in taste when there is only half the amount of sugar in it?