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Re: Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar

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Wait really? You buy quantities in imperial but the nutritional labels are in metric? Good luck with that!

Why would I need to be lucky? When would I care how many ounces of protein are in my sandwich?

Sounds overly complicated? Especially if one unit makes sense to you but the other one doesn’t because you never use it in daily life?

Re: Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar

#43
The federal agencies governing food labeling are very effective. I'm okay with companies employing people to figure out how to live just barely inside the bounds of legal labeling. To me, that's just evidence that the companies couldn't change the regulations through lobbying, couldn't skirt the regulations by bribing inspectors, and couldn't just ignore them and budget for some annual fines.

Re: Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar

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No, they don't. His photo doesn't support his silly claim at all. He highlights that the first ingredient is sugar, and that it says zero grams, but doesn't note the asterisk, which says "less than 0.5g". The tic tacs labeled "sugar free" use artificial sweetener. I don't think any reasonable person would read those three pieces of information and assume that regular tic tacs are sugar free.

>The tic tacs labeled "sugar free" use artificial sweetener. I've sort of trained myself to be careful at this point, but this is an annoyance of mine especially with clear sparkling water. I'm fine with and generally like seltzers without sweeteners added. I hate sparkling water with some artificial sweetener and the difference isn't always obvious from the big print on the label.

Look for “no sweeteners” on the label and/or check the ingredients list.

Re: Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar

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Do they really say "sugar free" on the label? I think the claim is that one serving (one tic-tac) has 0g of sugar, which, assuming rounding to the nearest whole number, is probably true. Unfortunately, that might lead someone to say, well, there are 60 tic-tacs in a box, and 60 * 0 is still 0, so I can eat all 60 for 0g of sugar, which of course is not true.

No, they don't. His photo doesn't support his silly claim at all. He highlights that the first ingredient is sugar, and that it says zero grams, but doesn't note the asterisk, which says "less than 0.5g". The tic tacs labeled "sugar free" use artificial sweetener. I don't think any reasonable person would read those three pieces of information and assume that regular tic tacs are sugar free.

Do you really think that in the country where the third-pounder lost to the quarter-pounder because people thought it was smaller that they read the asterisk text there?

Re: Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar

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Aren't all nutritional labels in the US in metric?

Wait really? You buy quantities in imperial but the nutritional labels are in metric? Good luck with that!

serving size is usually in imperial

Re: Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar

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No, they don't. His photo doesn't support his silly claim at all. He highlights that the first ingredient is sugar, and that it says zero grams, but doesn't note the asterisk, which says "less than 0.5g". The tic tacs labeled "sugar free" use artificial sweetener. I don't think any reasonable person would read those three pieces of information and assume that regular tic tacs are sugar free.

Do you really think that in the country where the third-pounder lost to the quarter-pounder because people thought it was smaller that they read the asterisk text there?

Do you think that country reads the nutrition label saying 0g of sugar either?

Re: Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar

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>The tic tacs labeled "sugar free" use artificial sweetener. I've sort of trained myself to be careful at this point, but this is an annoyance of mine especially with clear sparkling water. I'm fine with and generally like seltzers without sweeteners added. I hate sparkling water with some artificial sweetener and the difference isn't always obvious from the big print on the label.

Look for “no sweeteners” on the label and/or check the ingredients list.

Hence "big print." You need to look carefully which I do unless it's a brand I know that only sells unsweetened seltzers.

Re: Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar

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They can round any number under 5 kilocalories to 0, and a gram of sugar has 4 kcal. Same thing with most sweetener packets, which use sugar as a filler or else there would be less then a single grain of powder per pack. Ironically, there is another fairly common filler: erythritol, which has less calories then sugar, and doesn't contribute to blood sugar, but because of how it's produced it can't be labeled natural.

Re: Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar

#50
Fortunately, here in the Netherlands (and most parts of Europe I suspect), ingredients are specified as amounts per 100g rather than some arbitrary serving size. This makes it very easy to compare products, for instance to see which one has the lowest percentage of sugars. In the US I had a much harder time comparing cereals for sugar content, as every one would have a different serving size.
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