Calorie counting
Calories at the cinema: how to count popcorn, nachos, and drinks
It is easy to log a cinema snack as “popcorn,” but that says almost nothing about the serving.
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Every article takes a claim you have already heard about food and follows the mechanism behind it — what actually happens in the body, what the research supports, and where the claim stops being true.
Calorie counting
How to count calories in a shared order
A shared order cannot fairly be divided by the number of people: one person had two pizza slices and lemonade, another had rolls and fries, and a third tasted a little of everything.
Calorie counting
Barbecue and picnic: how to count your plate, bread, sauces, and seconds
At a picnic, calories are usually lost not in the barbecue itself but around it: a piece of lavash, sauce from a shared bowl, a drink, and a few more pieces by the grill.
Calorie counting
How to count calories at someone else’s home when you do not know the recipe or weight
When you are visiting, you do not need to ask your hosts how many grams of oil they used or weigh every meatball.
Calorie counting
Subway calories: sandwich macros from the official data
Subway publishes nutrition information for its full menu in a separate document.
Shopping
Food in an unfamiliar supermarket: what to look for on the label
In an unfamiliar supermarket, a package can look entirely unreadable, but usually only the words are.
Ingredients and additives
Gelatin, pork, and alcohol on labels: how to check in another language
Pork is rarely called pork in an ingredients list.
Shopping
How to translate a product’s ingredients list into Russian
An ingredients list in a foreign language in a Russian shop means either a violation, a detached sticker, or a purchase made outside Russia.
Calorie counting
Menus in Thailand: what to order and where calories hide
Thai food has a reputation for being light, and that is half true: vegetables, fish, and rice form its base.
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