The man is upset, but not put off, there is Regular Eggnog of the same brand as the Light, he will just check the calories on the Regular Eggnog and have some of that, much to his surprise he finds that the calories in the Light Eggnog are the same as Regular Eggnog, this cannot be right he thinks and proceeds to check the entire nutrition label on both Eggnog's, "this cannot be" he thinks as he discovers that the only difference in the Light Eggnog compared to the Regular Eggnog is that Light has 1.5 grams of fat and Regular has 2 grams of fat per half cup.
On further investigation the man discovers that is not the only difference, you pay a higher price for the Light Eggnog. The moral of this Christmas Story is that you have to be careful how things are packaged, it seems the word "light" can easily be applied to something with little change to it's nutritional value...
So do you think companies should be allowed to package things as light with a change as minor as this one?
Regular Eggnog
Light Eggnog
I wonder if one, or both, are typos? Or maybe Dairyland in general just makes low-fat egg nog. My Lucerne egg nog (the regular stuff, not their premium one) is 155 calories and 8g of fat for ½ cup. That's 4x the fat of the regular egg nog you have! Mine, however has less sugar - 14.5g vs. 21g.
ReplyDeleteI noticed the top three ingredients in your pictures are water, sugar and "modified milk ingredients." On my carton here it says milk, cream and sugar. that probably accounts for some of the differing stats.
It could be, I think I will ask them.
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