How can something have zero calories in one serving but ten calories in three servings?

Question

I have a flavored sparkling water and it has ten calories in the container (1 liter), but zero per serving (12 fl oz). Isn’t that a little over 3 calories per serving?

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Answer 1

Food labeling laws have rules for rounding calories and less then 5 calories per serving is rounded to zero. The result is the 3 calories get rounded to zero.

In a similar way if there are less than 50 calories it is rounded to the closes multiple of 5 so the 10 calories for the whole container is in reality between 7.5 and 12.5 calories. So each serving can contain 4.16 calories with that labeling.

Above 50 it is rounded to the closes multiple of 10. This is why you neve see a value like 97 calories per serving it will be 100. The only possible last digit is 0 and 5

https://menucalc.com/2018/09/17/understanding-fda-menu-labeling-rounding-rules-a-guide-for-restaurants/