Bored and Nuts

These things are wildly addictive. Our craving to consume the entire bag made us glance at the nutritional facts label on this new product to make sure we weren't eating sugar by the metric ton and spare us the horrible, bloated future as predicted in Wall-E.

Serving size: 8 clusters. Servings per container: about 6.

There are not 48 of these in that little bag. We should know -- we would loved to have eaten that many. The next thing I knew a second bag had been purchased, the counting began, and both the electronic balance and calculator were deployed. Oh, how bored we were! Some fun numbers:

Total product mass: 156g stated, 156g actual.
Total number of clusters: 48 calculated, 24 actual.
Total amount of nut debris in bag bottom: 22g
Individual Cluster Weight: 3.5g calculated, 5.6g actual (average).
Serving size stated: 8 clusters (~28g)
Serving size actual: 5 clusters (~28g)

At actual weight, eating a suggesting serving size results in eating about 44.6g of product versus the stated 28g for an error of ~16g, or 57%! (federal law permits up to 20%) That's around 100 extra calories and 7.7g more fat than printed on the label. Whoops.

They're [mostly] nuts and nuts are healthy, so it can't be so bad. Right? Hopefully, Frito-Lay will be kind enough to give us a lifetime supply for correcting their manufacturing problem.