#Are Tic Tacs actually 0 calories?

[khulkarjiyo]

Are Tic Tacs good for your health?

Tik Tak is a brand of small sweet mints which is designed to freshen our mouth breath. It contains small colorful mints which generally help in breathing. Are Tic Tacs good for your health Their main purpose is to keep the fragrance of the bathroom fresh and they are often used in log meetings, interviews, or any time when fresh fragrance is required. Tic Tacs aren’t a classically praised…

[jmtorres]

how to math foods from their nutrition info and ingredient list:

in the US, ingredient lists have to be in order from largest to smallest amount. so like I'm looking at these chicken gyoza I get from Sprouts:

nutrition label:

serving size: 7 gyoza, or 140g. This is slightly complicated by the fact that the ingredients list (below) is divided into filling and wrapper, but I'm mostly interested in mathing out the filling anyway. by looking up gyoza wrappers separately I have determined 7 wrappers is around 39-40g. (fodmap app says I'm good up to like. 30 wrappers. yay I don't have to worry about the wrappers.)

So I'm looking at a serving size of 100g for the filling.

the ingredient list looks like this:

Ingredients: Filling: Boneless Chicken, Cabbage, Sugar, Salt, Onion, Soybean Oil, Sesame Seed Oil, Ginger, Garlic, White Pepper. Wrapper: Unbleached And Enriched Wheat Flour (Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Food Starch, Salt, Soybean Oil.

Because the ingredient list is by amount, I know that chicken (the first ingredient) could be almost all of that 100g, but the most cabbage (second ingredient) there could be is just under 50g, because there has to be more chicken than cabbage. and the same applies down the line. so the list is:

chicken - less than 100g

cabbage - less than 50g (half)

sugar - less than 33g (one third)

salt - less than 25g (one fourth) 1.6g (see below)

onion - less than 20g (one fifth) 1.6g

soybean oil - less than 17g (one sixth) 1.6g

sesame oil - less than 14g (one seventh)1.6g

ginger - less than 12.5g (one eighth) 1.6g

garlic - less than 11g (one ninth) 1.6g

white pepper - less than 10g (one tenth) 1.6g

and likely everything from sugar down is actually much lower -- you don't have your seasonings take up a third of your material. but those are the greatest amounts a serving could contain based on this nutritional label. and in fact, I can look up what the sodium content is--650mg, or less than a single gram, according to the nutrition label. sodium is about 40% of salt's mass so call that 1.6g salt, and then figure out that everything lower on the list than salt (4) has to also be less than 1.6g. (and. salt is also in the wrappers. so this is more salt and more subsequent seasonings than is in the fillings. 1.6g is our high safety estimate.)

so, what does my fodmap app say about these ingredients?

chicken's fine, don't need to worry about my meats pretty much.

cabbage: safe serve is 75g. I'm good.

sugar: safe serve is 50g. I'm good.

salt: does not contain fodmaps

onion: 12g is a yellow serve. but since we know onion actually has to be less than 1.6g, I think this is safe.

oils: no fodmaps

ginger: 5g is a safe serve, since we're under 1.6g we're good.

garlic: I had to look up a bunch of stuff to figure out what qualifies as a safe serve of garlic, because it's miniscule. but it's like 1.46g. that's close enough to 1.6g (and garlic is enough ingredients down from that salt) that I think this is probably safe.

white pepper: not sure, but black pepper would be fine?

Yay, I can eat a serving of these gyoza! my tendency to eat two servings for a meal might be pushing things but like. overall. safe food despite inclusion of fodmap ingredients due to how little of those ingredients are actually in there.

I do shit like this in my head like all the time. like when I'm trying to figure out how much lactose a cheese has, I'll check its sugar content. regular milk runs at about 4% lactose but I know 1-2% is generally safe for me to consume, so if the g of sugar in a cheese is less than 2% of the serving size I'll know it's okay for my level of lactose intolerance. (although there's a complication on sugar! if the amount of sugar in a serving is less than 5 calories - less than about a gram - the label does not have to report it! which is why tic tacs are listed at 0 calories and 0g of sugar even though their primary ingredient is sugar. because a serving size is less than half a gram. anyway this means that if i'm looking at a label that says 0g sugar and i want to be sure the percent of sugar (that is potentially lactose) is less than 2% of the serving, that serving size has to be at least 50g for me to be sure the "rounded down" to zero sugar is still at a safe amount. tricky with cream cheese where they set the serving at 30g.)

anyway shoutout to the gnocchi company (Del Cecco ftw) that put on the ingredient list that the first ingredient (mashed potatoes) comprised 80% of the gnocchi and the second ingredient (potato starch) comprised 15%, you made my life so much easier.

[slabaughtwin1-blog]

Sometimes I have days where I eat whatever I can get my hands on. One time I think I may have eaten some form of stale crackers or chips. Other times I have trouble accepting a piece of gum or candy from someone because I'm afraid they'll find out. One time I actually couldn't finish consuming a tic tac which is either 2, 1, or 0 calories.

[justgetfitnikki]

Who reads labels when shopping? 🙋‍♀️ . What do I look at first? . 🔸ingredients: How many ingredients are unpronounceable? Are there lots of sweeteners and preservatives? What’s the first ingredient? Ingredients are listed in order of proportions. . 🔸serving size: How many servings per package? Think about how sad people were when they realized that 1 Lenny & Larry’s cookie was actually TWO servings. . 🔸words like: low fat, calorie free, diet, enriched and fortified always make me curious. What was remove or add to make that possible? Less fat, more sugar? Enriched means ingredients were lost during processing and therefore had to be added back in. . 🔸fats: what kind of fats? Saturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, trans? How many grams of each? . 🔸sugar: How many grams of sugar? Where is the sugar coming from? Is the sugar artificial or “natural”? . 🔸calories: keeping in mind the serving size, do the calories make sense? If I’m eating X calories a day, will a serving be a sufficient use of my calories? . Also, did you know the FDA deems an underestimation of 20% of calories still acceptable! Companies are permitted to round up/down nutritional information. Think about how most numbers on packaging are round numbers. . A small example of this are Tic Tacs! Tic Tac ingredients state sugar, BUT their nutritional facts are permitted to state 0 grams of sugar because one mint is less than 0.5 grams. . The bottom line is, if you’re concerned about what’s in your food, stick to whole foods as much as possible. . . . . . . . . #nutritional#nutrionable #groceries #groceryshopping #healthyfoods #healthymeals #healthyhabits #healthychoice #mealprepmonday#mealprepsunday #eatbetternotless #mealpreparation #grocery #grocerystore#oatmeal #foodfacts #FoodDiary#tiuteam #bbgtransformation#weightloss #fatloss #foodprep #healthyswaps #cleaneating #nutri #fitgirlsguide #healthylifestyle (at Vancouver, British Columbia)