Diet & Nutrition

Nutrition info could join specials on restaurant menus

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 7th, 2005

Show a group of nutritionists a 10-ounce restaurant hamburger and a side order of onion rings and have them calculate the number of calories in the meal. Easy, right'

Well, not exactly. The food experts consistently underestimated the 1,550-calorie meal by an average of 685 calories, in a study of 200 dietitians by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and New York University.

"If well-trained food professionals can't accurately estimate calorie content in a plate of food, you can be sure the average consumer is at a loss when looking at a menu," said Claudia Malloy of CSPI in Washington, D.C., which co-sponsored the study and is lobbying to...

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