How are nutrition facts calculated?

Question

I always imagine Karen’s machine from SpongeBob lol

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Answer 1

A couple of different ways but usually just a database. If Uncle Bob’s Chili has five pounds of beef, an onion, a can of beans, etc all of the nutritional information is added up from those separate ingredients. Larger companies use lab equipment to calculate. For example, the bomb calorimeter that pretty much burns food to see how much energy (Calories) is released.