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Why is an empty bowl 5 calories?


Removed everything from a Power Bowl and it is still 5 calories? Is the bowl edible?

by NoNotRobot

34 Comments

  1. NoNotRobot

    ….Also an empty Veggie Bowl is 10 cal. An empty Pintos n Cheese bowl is 5 cal.

  2. markartman

    They assume you’re going to eat something since you’re ordering something. In this case , the bowl is 5 cal.

  3. NoNotRobot

    An empty Beans and Rice bowl is 0 calories. So if you are watching your weight and MUST eat a bowl, go with that one.

  4. CrayzeeCrypto

    I think they call them empty calories

  5. MasterMassClass

    The worse thing is that they charge $6.79 for the plastic bowl

  6. Adept-Age-8177

    You really spent the time to make a post about this?

  7. BirdsofAlpha222

    The residual grease on the hands/gloves of the person who is handing it to you

  8. cdub_synth

    I think is amazing you discovered this. Just goes to show the entire calorie code is probably 100% trash

  9. lorissaurus

    Once they scrape everything back out of the bowl cause you removed all the items and they aren’t remaking it cause u removed something. About 5 cal of bits and juice are left in the container xD

  10. OpTicDyno

    The diet sodas also have like 15 calories. I wonder if there’s some minimum calorie value based on the size you order to prevent a 0 value

  11. Competition-Dapper

    You gonna wipe out the residue of what was removed?

  12. Nixphoe701

    In America the USDA and FDA say anything less than 5cal can be marked as 0cal. There’s probably a limit on the calorie tracker that keeps it from hitting 0 unless the product is specifically marked 0cal.

  13. HarvardGradFag

    Can someone order just this and see what happens

  14. tacodung

    Why are you ordering an empty bowl for 5 calories?

  15. Most likely they did a calorie analysis for each ingredient (or more likely copied the usda database’s analysis) and just added up the amount of each ingredient in the bowl, rounding up everything to the 5. If you notice across basically everything, calories tend to be pretty even a pretty looking numbers because everything is an estimate.

    When you are removing each ingredient, it’s just subtracting the estimate used for a portion of that ingredient so everything that was rounded up is getting left behind.

    Say the calculated calories for a serving of chicken is 57 calories. Doing that for each ingredient you might get a calculated total of 296 calories for a meal, which gets rounded for 300. Once you subtract the calories of each ingredient, you’re left with like 4 calories which gets rounded up to 5. Like some other people pointed out, the veggie bowl is left with 10 Cals, same logic but image it rounds to 6 calories instead of 4. It gets rounded UP to the nearest 5, leaving a 10 calorie bowl

  16. kmitchell1985

    They don’t call it a power bowl for nothing 😂

  17. kmitchell1985

    They don’t call it a power bowl for nothing 😂

  18. XtremeAsFan

    Maybe they are calculating eating it with Sauce Packets

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