Smaller portion = less sugar, fat, salt, calories etc... If I remember correctly a few states have addressed making unrealistic portion sizes for the label as making misleading claims.

Nutrients should always be listed in pr 100g or in percent (effectively the same).

Tic tacs have a serving size of less than a gram so they can claim 0g of sugar.

Tic-tacs are 94% sugar. A serving of tic-tacs is 1 tic-tac, which is just under half a gram. The FDA considers less than half a gram of sugar in a serving to be negligible and not required to be listed.

In other words, a product that is 94% sugar is legally sugar-free.

In the EU (probably in the rest of europe too) you must have a per 100 gram (you can have bullshit "portions" too if you want to, but the "per 100 gram" must be there).

How the hell do you americans compare different brands??

They are almost always 1 oz (28g).

But, individually packaged stuff does tend to pull bullshit like “1 serving=half a bottle of soda”

Peanut butter is probably going to be fine though

Wtf peanut butter you get into that's got sugar?

As someone who, if anything, wants to gain weight, this has the inverse effect for me. Peanut butter is great because it's so dense with calories. (I try to avoid sugar though, but I don't think peanut butter has much added sugar, but I'll have to check next time I have some.)

I know I'm in the minority though. I'm a 6ft tall man who weighs ~125-130lb. I was stuck at 120 for a decade or more, and only recently have put on a couple more pounds. I don't have an eating disorder or anything, but I just struggle to put on weight, so my serving sizes personally for peanut butter are way higher than average.

Damn personal size potato chip bag said 2.5 servings!

A single serving was like 6 chips!

Yeah, it should be illegal to list serving sizes that disconnected from reality. They should be MANDATED to have the first column list the nutrition information for the container as a whole, and then let them put whatever ridiculous lie, but it should only be allowed in a second column, that I can ignore after seeing the first column that shows what the container actually contains.

I'm pretty sure that most of the time, you can't see them with the naked eye.

Yeah ‘serving size: three jelly beans’ or ‘one Oreo cookie’ are not realistic even for people who don’t actually binge them.

Peanut butter typically has a serving size of one or two tablespoons. That's entirely reasonable.

I think these things should at least have the total calories also listed, and not just from multiplying the (frequently rounded down) serving size calories.

Peanut butter is delicious but it's basically the neutron star of food calories! Makes me sad.

I'm in touch with my peanut butter jar

We would like to remind you that your peanut butter jar will never talk back to you and, in fact, cannot speak. In the event that your peanut butter jar does speak, we urge you to eat its contents immediately and dispose of the jar responsibly. Please recycle.

You only use one jar?

Thank you, Father Peanut.

After eating "natural" peanut butter for a long time, the "regular" peanut butter seems sketchy AF now. Loaded with chemicals.

As a child I had a mission, one I failed at over and over again. I wanted to make peanut butter toast as good as Grandma. PB toast at my grandparents' house was delicious, at home it was trash. I thought I had it the time I noticed she put a little butter on it before the PB. My disappointment was immeasurable when I found that although it helped, it was still nowhere as good. I could never get above a 4/5 to Grandma's 10. I started to wonder, was it just the environment? Was it sitting in Grandma's sunny kitchen before going golfing with Grandpa that made it the food of the gods?

At some point I stopped trying and it became one of those things from childhood I forgot; until my girlfriend (now wife) went grocery shopping and bought real PB. It immediately brought back memories that I hadn't had for over a decade. I realized this was it, it was so simple, Grandma had the real shit and I only had Skippy/Jiff shit.

It still blows my mind. How the fuck did my parents' generation, who grew up with the good stuff, accept this shitty substitute? It's not even cheaper. I just checked the nearest grocery store and the ones that are just peanuts and salt are the cheapest.

This is why I serve my peanut butter in cheese wheel form. 1 inch thick but 18 inches wide.

we don't even list serving sizes on our stuff, just nutrients per 100g so you can count it yourself

Bro, what the fuck

There's 4 tablespoons in a quarter cup, so 8 would be half a cup of peanut butter. Seems like a lot, but I haven't had peanut butter in years because of allergies

I was going to join those commenting that that seems like a lot, but then I thought about how I nake peanut butter sandwiches. You've really got to trowel it on, or what's the point, right?

One slice is two servings, clearly.

It's better measured in thickness. Obviously, you'll cover whatever it's being smeared on from edge to edge.