“calories as prepared” are incredibly misleading, case and point kraft mac n cheese

the box says 250 calories per 2.5 oz unprepared, 350 prepared

so imagine there you are eating the 1 cup serving size thinking you are eating only 350 calories when really it’s more like almost 400

this is because the preparation calls for 1/4 cup of milk and 4 table spoons of butter, adding 438 calories to the entire meal, assuming this is for if you make the whole box which is roughly 3 servings, this comes out to around 146 per bowl on top of the 250 dry mix

396 calories per cup of mac n cheese despite it saying 350

now on the very bottom of the box, real small, it says you can make it with fat free milk and only 2 table spoons of butter

when you do it that way it comes out to around 325 calories per cup

I don’t like how misleading and blatantly false the as prepared calorie count is, that’s almost 50 calories extra per bowl, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a marketing thing, advertising that it’s less calories than it really is so people don’t feel as bad eating it

I’m pretty sure they only put the alternative preperation (the one that comes out to 325 instead of 396) so the fda doesn’t hound them for lying to customers, like fine print

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