Can you trust calorie counts on food labels? What the nutrition scientists say

Can you trust calorie counts on food labels? What the nutrition scientists say

Nutrition labels flaunt calorie counts in bold on food packaging. The amount of energy — or calories — we get from food is affected by many different factors, experts say.

Can you trust food label calorie counts?

What scientists say about calories on labels Nutrition researchers say calorie figures on packaged foods are best treated as estimates, not precise measurements of what your body will absorb. Food labels typically show “calories” based on laboratory methods that measure the energy in a food…