How do nutrition labels even work?

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I have a bottle of flavored water (0.68 cents at Wal-Mart, because I’m worth it) and it has 3 servings. If you drink 1 servings worth, you get exactly 0 calories and 0% everything else. But if you drink all 3 servings, you get 10 calories and about 10mg of sodium. How is that possible? I know there’s sometimes really small amounts of things like sodium, but isn’t that usually denoted as “<0%”?

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They can round down. That’s why they divide the serving size arbitrarily in a container that in no way signifies when you’ve hit a serving. It’s intentional deception to make you judge it the same as plain water (plus some people may be more likely to buy if they see a column of 0s)

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