Confusing calorie information on pack

pinkshoes

Good luck with the calorie counting.

As a side note, half a back of bacon is your daily recommended salt intake (6 grams), so this would mean you should be eating nothing else with salt in for the rest of the day. If you're having bread with that bacon in a sarnie, then even a single slice of bread is around 0.6 g of salt.

Tokmon

Rogerrabbit said:

I am trying to watch my calories to maintain my weight. I rely on the calorie information on the packet and also use Myfitnesspal to record them as I go along. A few times I have found the calories quoted on packets don't make a lot of sense. A good example today is Freshcure bacon from Aldi.
It is a 300g pack with 10 rashers. It quotes 2 rashers as 80 calories. I like 5 rashers which by my working out equals 200 calories. However it also says 100g  is 229 calories. If half a pack(5 rashers) is 200 calories how can a third of a pack(100g) be 229 calories. Or am I missing something here?

If you find that confusing then this will confuse you even more when i tell you that 2 rashers actually have 80,000 calories! (80 Kcal) although apparently you can use a capital "C" in "Calories" to mean kilocalories and then say it has 80 Calories.