We have a 1-pound bag of Brussels sprouts:
1 pound bag = 454 grams |


The label (photo) is identical to the official USDA label (image above).
My wife counted how many sprouts came in the bag, and we have 40, not the 20 the label says we should have (4 sprouts per serving x 5 servings). Which, on the one hand, is great, because, hey, who doesn't want free Brussels sprouts?
So does our bag just have really small sprouts? Or do we have a 400-calorie bag of Brussels sprouts?
4 of our sprouts in a 1-cup measuring cup |
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10 of our sprouts in a 1-cup measuring cup |
So how do we figure out the nutrition content? Do we have 10 servings of Brussels sprouts and there are 400 calories? Or, do use our measuring cup and we have 160 calories?
My point here isn't that I want bigger sprouts, or "hey look the Brussels sprouts people don't know how to do math!" But again, I just finished 26th grade and my wife went to school for this and has literally done this for a living for nearly a decade, and yet we can't figure out what we're eating.