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Your snack may contain 20% more calories than listed

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Trusting the highly specific number proudly printed on the back of your snack wrapper is a completely misguided endeavor. Regulations heavily permit an incredibly generous margin of error, meaning a supposed one hundred calorie treat could actually pack a completely hidden twenty percent surplus. You are obsessively tracking numbers that are functionally just optimistic, highly legalized approximations.

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Your snack may contain 20% more calories than listed
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