{"id":527132,"date":"2026-07-06T01:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/527132\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:15:17","slug":"these-foods-may-have-more-calories-than-you-think-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/527132\/","title":{"rendered":"These Foods May Have More Calories Than You Think, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some common foods can contain more calories than shoppers expect, and those gaps may be enough to stall weight-loss goals, <a href=\"https:\/\/foodlabelmaker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to Food Label Maker.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company said calorie counting can be less exact than many consumers realize, especially when food labels, portion sizes, and daily estimates all leave room for error.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A food labeled 200 calories can test at 240 and still clear FDA rules,&#8221; said Maria AbiHanna, a nutrition expert at Food Label Maker. &#8220;Someone targeting 1600 calories a day can easily eat 500 over without knowing it, which adds up and derails your diet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Food Label Maker pointed to four categories where calorie gaps can matter most.<\/p>\n<p>Lean ground beef can contain more fat than shoppers expect. Food Label Maker cited a 2015 news investigation that lab-tested supermarket ground beef and found that one package labeled &#8220;93% lean&#8221; tested at nearly 19 percent fat, adding about 100 hidden calories to a typical 4-ounce serving.<\/p>\n<p>The company recommends weighing cooked portions and building in a buffer when the calorie count matters.<\/p>\n<p>Cold-pressed juice and bottled smoothies can also add up quickly.<\/p>\n<p>A 15-ounce bottle can run 300 to 400 calories and contain more sugar than a can of soda, Food Label Maker said. The company recommends logging the full bottle, eating whole fruit instead, or saving half for later.<\/p>\n<p>Protein bars can create another trap.<\/p>\n<p>Food Label Maker cited a class-action case alleging that one popular protein bar contained up to 275 calories and 13.5 grams of fat, compared with a label listing 150 calories and 2 grams of fat.<\/p>\n<p>AbiHanna said consumers should treat printed calorie counts as a starting point, not a guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most failed summer diets are not the result of weak discipline,&#8221; AbiHanna said. &#8220;They are the result of building a calorie target on numbers that do not match the food itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pre-made salads and diet-positioned meals can also run higher than the listed amounts.\u00a0Food Label Maker cited a Tufts University study that found pre-made meals averaged eight percent over stated calories, while restaurant meals averaged 18 percent over.<\/p>\n<p>For grab-and-go salads, the company recommends asking for dressing on the side and adding a 10 percent buffer when logging items labeled &#8220;lean,&#8221; &#8220;light,&#8221; or low-calorie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shoppers need to know which labels to question,&#8221; AbiHanna noted, &#8220;and brands need to tighten calorie accuracy now, because the dieters paying closest attention are the same shoppers most likely to sue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice  and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some common foods can contain more calories than shoppers expect, and those gaps may be enough to stall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,85,46,543],"class_list":["post-527132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}