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In the US, Tic-Tac has zero calories. The same Tic-Tac is advertised in the EU as having "2 calories".

If a pack full of candy, 0.5g (edit) sugar each, can be sold as zero-kcal candy, then what's the fuss with meat labelling? Not lobbied enough?

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You have a point but it's 0.5g each candy so they're in the area of rounding errors. And as every programmer knows just one rounding error won't bite you, but when (often) it gets multiplied...

The EU probably requires calculating energy in kilojoules (which are 4x calories) and then converting back to calories which results in different rounding.

I believe the US allows .5 to round down to 0, while I've seen EU labels list e.g. .5 g of fat, so I wouldn't be surprised if they require it.

The idea that doing something wrong in one arena means we are justified to do something else wrong in another arena is incredibly self-sabotaging.

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