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What does trace mean in the nutrition information?

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What does trace mean in the nutrition information?

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Fat is usually measured to the nearest half gram. If it’s less than half a gram, they call it ‘trace’ Whether or not you count it (either rounding up to .5g or choosing not to count it) by the end of they day the difference shouldn’t be more than a gram. (Assuming you don’t consume a lot of products with a ‘trace’) the caloric differnce won’t be more than 9 Calories, again assuming you consume a gram or less of fat between all of the ‘traces’ In Europe, they measure the nutritional values to the tenth place quite often, and Calories aren’t rounded (in America, Calories are usually rounded to the nearest 5 or 10)-so something packaged in Europe may say it has 68 Calories (except they use kcal) whereas the same product in the USA will say it has 70 Calories. So there’s not much point to counting to the exact Calorie or portion of a fat gram since our labels aren’t that exact. Try just counting to the nearest fat gram and rounding your Calories Also, if nutritional values look off, they p

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