I’m back on the diet wagon again. I’ve been off of it now since August and I’ve put on a couple of kilos from where I was when I finished the process. So I’m back on it. Lose a kilo a week.
So anyhoo, I got back from taking the kids to their chess club this morning and grabbed a San Pellegrino Limonata out of the fridge. As i have to write down everything that passeth through my lips, I read the label.
Get this. You know those little bottles of Limonata? How many servings would you say is in one of those? Half? A quarter? Oh no. According to the nice folks at San Pellegrino, that there is TWO SERVINGS. Right. Maybe in Oompa Loompa land. Give me a frakkin break you morons. The Limonata bottle is 200ml and according to the label contains 226kj per serving of 100ml. That’s 452kj per bottle for those of you failed Grade One math.
Compare that to the 340ml bottle of Bundaberg Diet Ginger Beer. They think a serving is 250ml (we must grow ’em bigger in Bundy than they do in Italia). And each serving of BDGB contains only 85kj. So a whole 340ml bottle contains 119kj – a quarter of the kilojoules in the tiny little munchkin-sized bottle of San Pellegrino.
Now I know one is diet and the other isn’t but that isn’t my point. My point is the BULLSHIT they try to feed you on these labels. If you want to lose weight, learn to read the labels. Shouldn’t there be a standard servings size for drinks like this?
Standard serving size for drinks is for the most-part 250ml.
I had a yogurt the other day which had a huge serving size. The entire 350g tub was one serve. Unfortunately it had 2000kj per serve, which is what, a standard main meal kinda energy content.
Even when we have a fairly standardised one here, good luck trying to get the rest of the world to agree on it. Especially when they want to try and fiddle the figures to hide the kj.
And did you compare the price between the two? I like the San Pellegrino Chinotto, you can get it from the supermarket for about $10.95 for 6x200ml bottles which makes it $1.85 for each 200ml bottle, compare this to the $1.20 for the 340ml Bundaberg Diet Ginger Beer.
Aren’t you on a diet??? So that would rule out sugar-loaded drinks like Limonata, no???
it’s all about the total of your kj intake CD!
Really? How about kj from carbs, from fat (saturated vs unsaturated), proteins, etc?? Don’t you think that there is more to it…i cannot imagine that you will get healthy on a diet of Limonata…even if you just reach your daily kj allowance.
losing weight is purely kj in v kj out if there is a deficit you will lose weight, if there is excess you will gain weight. Its as simple as that.
All that other stuff comes into play for health but there’s no reason to rule out the occasional sugary drink for health reasons anyway.