0g means less than half a gram per serving. Given an arbitrarily small serving size, everything has 0g of sugar. Like how PAM spray grease has 0G of fat due to a tiny serving size.
Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
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Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
> in Europe the requirement is to specify nutrition data per 100 g of "usable" product Source? that doesn't seem true and seems prone to the same serving size tricks used in US. My experience it that nutritional values per 100g of product (actual raw product no matter what its final form is supposed to be) are always listed first. Then if you're supposed to mix it with water there can be e.g., optionally, a nutrition…
~It's true.~ Edit: sorry I misread the previous comment. It's 100g "as sold". Not "as prepared". > All the information must be expressed per 100g or per 100ml. It may also, in addition, be expressed per portion or per consumption unit of the product. https://food.ec.europa.eu/safety/labelling-and-nutrition/foo...
That doesn't say anything. It just says it may be more convenient to express data per 100 ml if you have a liquid product.
Can you cite the article where it says you can express nutritional data with respect to a final form of the product you mix yourself and not list the per 100g/100ml data? I'm still very skeptic but would be quite interesting if that was really allowed.
Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
#33As someone who is also severely lactose intolerant, this is something you figure out through trial and error (or I should really say trial and extreme digestive system upset). Unless the food product is clear with mentioning "no lactose", you can only trust that product will contain a "minimum upper bounds of 500 milligrams of lactose per serving for products labeled “0g sugar”" and it could have that much as the aut…
Sadly is the case for me as well. A friend of mine went vegan just for the sake of at least it eliminated any possibility of diary products in their food.
At least in the UK the enzyme pills can add up quite quickly in cost.
Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
#34As someone who is also severely lactose intolerant, this is something you figure out through trial and error (or I should really say trial and extreme digestive system upset). Unless the food product is clear with mentioning "no lactose", you can only trust that product will contain a "minimum upper bounds of 500 milligrams of lactose per serving for products labeled “0g sugar”" and it could have that much as the aut…
> I basically take lactase enzyme pills everytime I have a dairy product.
Sorry I'm not familiar with lactase enzyme or lactose intolerance, but wouldn't this be the reccomended usage? Or is it suggested to take the pills only when eating something with especially high lactose content?
Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> in Europe the requirement is to specify nutrition data per 100 g of "usable" product Source? that doesn't seem true and seems prone to the same serving size tricks used in US. My experience it that nutritional values per 100g of product (actual raw product no matter what its final form is supposed to be) are always listed first. Then if you're supposed to mix it with water there can be e.g., optionally, a nutrition…
~It's true.~ Edit: sorry I misread the previous comment. It's 100g "as sold". Not "as prepared". > All the information must be expressed per 100g or per 100ml. It may also, in addition, be expressed per portion or per consumption unit of the product. https://food.ec.europa.eu/safety/labelling-and-nutrition/foo...
That sentence contradicts what you claim to be true...
Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
~It's true.~ Edit: sorry I misread the previous comment. It's 100g "as sold". Not "as prepared". > All the information must be expressed per 100g or per 100ml. It may also, in addition, be expressed per portion or per consumption unit of the product. https://food.ec.europa.eu/safety/labelling-and-nutrition/foo...
That doesn't say anything. It just says it may be more convenient to express data per 100 ml if you have a liquid product. Can you cite the article where it says you can express nutritional data with respect to a final form of the product you mix yourself and not list the per 100g/100ml data? I'm still very skeptic but would be quite interesting if that was really allowed.
Apologies, I misread your previous comment.
You're correct that the requirement is for 100g/100ml "as sold" not "as prepared". The other commenter is incorrect.
So milk powder, for example, would have a mandatory nutrition label showing 100g of powder and then the company can optionally add a second label showing nutrition for a serving of prepared liquid milk.
Since most companies add whatever serving makes it look best it becomes habitual to filter out the serving size info.
If anyone wants to dive further into this it's EU regulation 1169/2011 Annex 1.
Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just as a counterpoint, in Europe the requirement is to specify nutrition data per 100 g of "usable" product. Some products are e.g. intended to be added to water before consumption, then the nutrition is for that final form, not for the concentrate that you actually buy. But it's really practical, it makes it dead easy to e.g. compare calories, sugar, fat and so on between e.g. milk and apple sauce (to take random e…
> in Europe the requirement is to specify nutrition data per 100 g of "usable" product Source? that doesn't seem true and seems prone to the same serving size tricks used in US. My experience it that nutritional values per 100g of product (actual raw product no matter what its final form is supposed to be) are always listed first. Then if you're supposed to mix it with water there can be e.g., optionally, a nutrition…
I'm not sure, whether you both are talking about the same thing. But, it's some kind of true and, as you said, not true..
One get the information for 100g of the product and also, most of the times, one get the nutrition information of a typical serving size of the final product.
So, if you buy a Snickers, the contents are listed per 100g and also for the weight of that one bar of Snickers (e g 70g). Or, when the product is to be mixed, the nutrition information is given for the amount of the product needed for mixing a serving size. It's a psychological trick, when the product is much less then 100g, or little more, the consumers are tricked into perceiving less sugar and less whatever.. but yes, it's not mandatory but rather a decision of marketing.
https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/product-requirements/f...
https://www.hooleybrown.com/blog-post/how-to-read-a-uk-or-eu...
Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
#38Is buffalo mozzarella the cheese they eat in spaghetti westerns? :D
Guess a few didn't get it. For those who didn't, congrats you're one of today's 10000
Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Additives and artificial sweeteners still have calories. E.g. 1g of citric acid is about 2.5 kcal. Also it's fun how can they name something "energy drink" and then advertise no calories. Where do I get the energy then?
Caffeine, taurine, b vitamins. Plus the placebo effect which is the only reason you get instant energy from any kind of energy drink. Even pure liquid sucrose takes at least 30 minutes to digest (aside from a negligible amount that's digested in the mouth. There's some interesting studies that show energy gain during a workout from just rinsing your mouth with an energy drink and not swallowing any. https://www.ncbi.…
I instantly wake up with my first sip of caffeine.
I can believe it takes longer to get absorbed.
Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just as a counterpoint, in Europe the requirement is to specify nutrition data per 100 g of "usable" product. Some products are e.g. intended to be added to water before consumption, then the nutrition is for that final form, not for the concentrate that you actually buy. But it's really practical, it makes it dead easy to e.g. compare calories, sugar, fat and so on between e.g. milk and apple sauce (to take random e…
> in Europe the requirement is to specify nutrition data per 100 g of "usable" product Source? that doesn't seem true and seems prone to the same serving size tricks used in US. My experience it that nutritional values per 100g of product (actual raw product no matter what its final form is supposed to be) are always listed first. Then if you're supposed to mix it with water there can be e.g., optionally, a nutrition…
> seems prone to the same serving size tricks used in US
I've only noticed it on what we call "squash", or fruit juice concentrate. When I was a kid, the labels would say 1 part concentrate to 6 parts water, and we'd do it about 1 to 4. Now, we've gone through double concentrate and a lot are "4x" now, but e.g. the bottle in front of me says "typical values per 100ml (diluted 1 part with 19 parts water)" and a serving size of 250ml (which actually provides more precision than the per 100ml value). I think these standard serving sizes are defined somewhere, as I think it's always 250ml for every kind of drink that comes from a large container, and either the exact quantity or an integer division of it for things that come in smaller containers, e.g a 330ml can.
The way it handles quantities is interesting. When is seems to mean trace, it uses "Finally, you can be pretty sure of the actual composition due to the calories, listed as 15kJ or 4 kcal per 250ml (use the kJ puts this at 3.5-37kcal per 250ml). Knowing that sugar is 3.87kcal per 1g, protein is 4.0kcal per 1g and fat is 898kcal per 1g (most people approximate per gram to 4 for carbs+protein and 9 for fat). So for the 0.5g of sugar, that's approx 2kcal, so there's either about 0.4g of protein or about 0.2g of fat or somewhere in-between. Just from what's in the juice, I expect the "missing calories" are mostly protein.
Obviously, none of that tells you anything about lactose (except that it's fruit juice and there's no reason why it would contain any).
Ingredients rather than final foods typically specify nutrition "per 100g as sold" and invent a serving side either by telling you how to prepare it (e.g. OXO gravy cubes say to dissolve 1 cube in 190ml of water for 2 servings) or invent some arbitrary serving size like 5g for a condiment. This seems in line with what you've seen, but definitely squash that is intended to be diluted doesn't do that (at least in the UK, and for the squash I buy).