Nutritional Information at Restaurants and on Packaged Foods Unreliable

A new Tufts University study suggests that the calorie listing on certain packaged food and on various fast food restaurants may be inaccurate.

 “We tested frozen foods straight out of their packages. For the restaurant foods we first calculated calorie content based on the portion we were served,” Roberts says. “When we went one step further and calculated calorie content based on the portion size listed on the restaurant’s nutrition literature, the discrepancies between our results and the restaurant’s results decreased, which suggests over sized portions were part of the problem.”