Hello! I’m hoping you all can shed some light on a conundrum I ran into with a can of chickpeas.
I bought a can of garbanzo beans on which the nutrition label said a serving, for 120 calories, was 1/2 a cup OR 130 grams. The can contained 3.5 servings.
I intended to add a full cup to my salad, and for those of you following along at home, that would be 260 grams for 240 calories.
I drained the can of beans, and started adding to my tared food scale, and to my surprise, the scale only hit 250 grams with the whole can of beans on it.
I decided to see if it was a cup of beans on my scale, but a little over half of what was on the scale fit into a measuring cup.
It felt really... strange and wrong to put the whole can into my salad, especially because the whole can SHOULD have been 420 calories which is much more than I intended to add to my meal, but I’ve always heard this sub promote weighing over measuring by volume.
But how is it possible for the can’s servings per can to be so incredibly off? How can it be legal for a can advertising 3.5 servings to barely have two? Or, is it possible weighing the beans was the wrong move and I should have gone by volume?
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