how do they figure out how many calories are in something?

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Who figures it out? How do they know how many calories are in there? Like when it’s printed on a restaurant menu- does a restaurant just guess? And doesn’t that depend on exact measurements? Which we know can’t be exactly the same every time a person cooks a dish?

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there is some wiggle room in reported figures; but we have federal guidelines as to the calories in food.

so restaraunts can look at their menu of 8oz steak 4oz green beans 8oz potatoe 1c cream and add it all together (for example)

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