If a can of coke has 39 grams of sugar and that amount of sugar equals 151 calories, how come the coke has 139 calories? What happens to the missing equivalent of kcal?

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If a can of coke has 39 grams of sugar and that amount of sugar equals 151 calories, how come the coke has 139 calories? What happens to the missing equivalent of kcal?

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A bottle cooking spray like Pam says that the calories per serving are 0. Some of them only contain the ingredient of oil. How can something that is purely calories say zero calories?

The serving size that is listed is 1/4 of a second. Within that serving size is most likely four calories.

Anytime you’re serving size is less than 5 calories you can say that the serving is zero calories, like tic tacs as stated by someone else.

This goes across the board on the nutrition label. 5.4 g of sugar? 5g listed. 29.6 g of protein? 30g listed. 22 calories from fat meaning 2.4g of fat? Says 2g.

Margins of errors are allowed on labeling so companies exploit them to maximum efficiency which is why I know people who think that cooking sprays that are pure oil are calorie free no matter how much they spray.

There are countries that will list things to the decimal place for more accuracy over marketing.