Silly calorie savings

[dropzone]

Bought some chicken stock to make potato soup. College Inn sells two kinds, regular and light. Light has half the calories of regular. Regular has ten calories per serving. I burned the difference asking, "WTF?"

Any examples you can think of?

[Rex Goliath]

"Light" has twice as much water. Check out the "light" fruit juices, you'll find the same thing.

[MovieMogul]

Hmph. When we were kids, we were overjoyed when Double Broth day came around!

[The Controvert]

I came here from the Rageguy FUUUUUU thread and my only comment is the OP would make a great cartoon example of that.

[missred]

The light is usually more for sodium savings than calorie ones. As posted earlier, it has twice as much water. Unfortunately, most commercially available broth has beaucoup mg sodium :(.

[voguevixen]

I thought you were going to ask for silly things you do that you mentally fool yourself into thinking saves calories. Like when I eat a big greasy slice of pepperoni pizza I blot the oil off the top. There! It's practially health food now!

[BoBettie]

I've got one- I was making tacos and got some Old El Paso refried beans to go with them. I saw the regular and the "fat free" versions and thought to myself "How the hell much fat could refried beans have?

.5 per 1/2 cup. Whoa. Better get the fat free, that sounds like a heart attack on a plate!!

[voguevixen]

"How the hell much fat could refried beans have?



I think "authentic" refried beans are actually loaded with fat, aren't they? I think that's probably what makes people grab the "fat free" without thinking.

[kayaker]

I see College Inn on the label, but my mind always thinks Collagen.

[Zelski]

Kayaker: A couple of weeks ago I was watching a Food Network show that talked about collagen in soup. There was talk about using bones in soup, collagen as a gelling agent, and the nutrition in collagen.

During an ad break, the College Inn commercial played. I wasn't paying attention at first and I thought the show has started. I looked up and saw the end of the College Inn commercial. This conjunction made me wonder if the pun was intentional. Now, I think about it every time the commercial plays.

Also, I wonder if there is collagen in College Inn broth.

[Cat Whisperer]

That sounds like things that advertise as "Fat Free!", like jellybeans. Yeah, you're fat-free, good for you; too bad it's the SUGAR we're worried about. I spend so much time reading labels at Safeway these days (we're trying to eat both healthy and low sodium - low sodium is the hard one to fit in).

[Freudian Slit]

"Light" has twice as much water. Check out the "light" fruit juices, you'll find the same thing.

Twice as much as zero?

[Lethal Babydoll]

A stick of suger-free gum is only 5 calories compared to 10 for a regular stick

[Cat Whisperer]

Thought of another one - those silly little 100 calorie chocolate bars (for full price). I get a 100 calorie serving of chocolate from eating - a few pieces at a time.

[bouv]

I love seeing lots of non-animal products proudly claiming how their 100% cholesterol free.

Yeah, well cholesterol only comes from animals, so...good for you for not adding any just to fuck with us?

And ditto on the "100% Fat Free!" on stuff that should be free of fat anyway.

[tr0psn4j]

Fat free water is a rip off! I'd like mine with fat please.

[Freudian Slit]

Or like when things like bread say no high fructose corn syrup? I should hope not!

[pbbth]

Or like when things like bread say no high fructose corn syrup? I should hope not!

I actually appreciate that kind of thing. HFCS has managed to sneak into everything at the store. You can't buy bread, soup, salad dressing, or any other packaged food without HFCS unless you check very carefully.

[Purd Werfect]

I'm glad that cigarettes are now trans-fat free. Low carb too.

[badbadrubberpiggy]

Or like when things like bread say no high fructose corn syrup? I should hope not!

You would hope not, but HFCS is in tons of bread and bread products, so I like it when they say that right up front. Saves me time scanning labels for stuff that shouldn't be in bread.

I've seen orange juice and jello labeled as "fat free!", like these are things that ever had fat.

I've also seen meats, most notably bacon, advertised as "low carb!"

[susan_foster]

How about my trans-fat free baking soda? Right on the box.

[dropzone]

Also, I wonder if there is collagen in College Inn broth.It didn't come out of the can in a can-shaped semisolid so I'd say no.

[norinew]

I love seeing lots of non-animal products proudly claiming how their 100% cholesterol free.

Yeah, well cholesterol only comes from animals, so...good for you for not adding any just to fuck with us?
Yeah, my mother used to insist on buying the name brand vegetable oil, because it was the one that said "Cholesterol Free!" on the label; I'd try to tell her that there is no way any vegetable oil that is 100% vegetable oil has cholesterol, because cholesterol cannot come from vegetable matter.

It does me just as much good to try to talk to her now that she's dead. . .

[bouv]

Yeah, my mother used to insist on buying the name brand vegetable oil, because it was the one that said "Cholesterol Free!" on the label; I'd try to tell her that there is no way any vegetable oil that is 100% vegetable oil has cholesterol, because cholesterol cannot come from vegetable matter.

It does me just as much good to try to talk to her now that she's dead. . .

Even if you flipped over the bottle and shower her the nutrition label she wouldn't believe you?

[norinew]

Even if you flipped over the bottle and shower her the nutrition label she wouldn't believe you?
Heh. The one sure way to drive my mother to violence-edged anger was to bring logic into the conversation when your logic unseated her beliefs! (I remember once she was holding forth on why interracial relationships are wrong; at the time, the sitcom A Different World was very popular, and my mother liked it; one of the stars of the show was Jasmine Guy; so I said to my mother "You have to agree that Jasmine Guy is a beautiful young woman, yes?" and my mother agreed she was indeed beautiful; I said "Well, her mother is white and her father is black; so, should she date white men? Or black men? Or is she only supposed to date men who are racially mixed?" To which my mother snapped: "Just forget about it!" IOW, how dare you interject logic into my perfectly irrational beliefs?)

So no, I was not about to risk a scene in the grocery store by showing her proof that she was being irrational! ;)

[Gozu Tashoya]

Because it seems appropriate to the turn the discussion has taken...
http://xkcd.com/641/

[JKilez]

I think "authentic" refried beans are actually loaded with fat, aren't they? I think that's probably what makes people grab the "fat free" without thinking.
When I have seen it home made, a generous helping of lard and bacon grease were used. Who knew that it is not supposed to be made that way. From the nutrition information, it looks like it is practically a health food.

[Mama Zappa]

Kayaker: A couple of weeks ago I was watching a Food Network show that talked about collagen in soup. There was talk about using bones in soup, collagen as a gelling agent, and the nutrition in collagen.

During an ad break, the College Inn commercial played. I wasn't paying attention at first and I thought the show has started. I looked up and saw the end of the College Inn commercial. This conjunction made me wonder if the pun was intentional. Now, I think about it every time the commercial plays.

Also, I wonder if there is collagen in College Inn broth.
Not much.... a good rich homemade stock will literally gel in the pot when you refrigerate it. Canned stuff sure doesn't!

Even if the homemade doesn't actually become Jello-like, it'll definitely become more viscous. Rich stuff. And if properly made, low fat. I assume it's relatively high in protein as a result of the collagen.

[voguevixen]

Seen in the freezer section -- cheese stuffed crust pizza: "A good source of calcium!" That is really grasping right there.

[gigi]

Also, I wonder if there is collagen in College Inn broth.

Are the lips of the can sexily plump?

[iamthewalrus(:3=]

When I have seen it home made, a generous helping of lard and bacon grease were used. Who knew that it is not supposed to be made that way. From the nutrition information, it looks like it is practically a health food.I make refried beans at home, and, while you want a little bit of fat, I've tried making it with a whole lot of fat before, and it didn't taste that much better.

[kayaker]

I assume it's relatively high in protein as a result of the collagen.

Anyone tried the new Altoids collagen mints?