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The Truth Behind Calorie Labels

CaseyNeistat · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Nutrition & diet scienceDocumentaries & storytelling

What it is

Casey Neistat's short New York Times op-doc investigating how accurate restaurant and packaged-food calorie labels really are. He gets items from chains like Chipotle, Starbucks and Subway measured by nutrition researchers and compares them to the printed numbers.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited in threads on calorie counting as a quick, visual demonstration that labeled calories can be well off.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Casey Neistat made a fun little video[1] that explores this a bit.”

    Surprising inaccuracy of calorie counts on some foods

    GnarlyWhale, 2016-09 · Recommendation · in “What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (2014)”

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Topics: calories, food labels, nutrition, restaurants, op-doc

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