Accuracy Of Current Calorie Labeling Calculations Considered.

eports that “some nutrition experts say” the most common calorie count labeling method “is flawed” and “overestimat[es] the energy provided to the body...by as much as 25 percent.” The current system “is most accurate when the foods are easily digested and all of their energy is made available to the body,” such as highly processed carbohydrates. Within recent years, however, scientists have realized “that a substantial number of calories are lost in the effort to digest” certain food, such as meat and nuts. An alternate “and more accurate system of counting calories has been devised” and presented to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization that “counts not just how much energy (or calories) are available in a food, but what the body can actually use of that energy.” http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/on-food-labels-calorie-miscounts/?ref=health&_r=0