I can’t tell if I’m missing something here and I’d like to know before I start spamming this in my diet. How is a ribeye only 390 calories based on the nutrition label? I weighed it and it did come out to around 12 ounces but I just can’t help but believe a catch here.
by greyceland
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Lollll it’s not. A ribeye is marbled and fatty, which that one is. A filet or another steak with all fat cut off might be those macros, but not a ribeye. I would go with USDA figures for meat, personally.
I don’t know. I even Googled it and the average is 300 calories per 4oz serving. 😭
Google the difference for grass-fed beef in calories. Apparently it can be up to 2/3 less calories?
This is laughable to say it’s only 2g of fat 😂
They’re lying liars who lie.
I see 3 visible accumulations of fat that even conservatively look like a total together of 4.5 teaspoons of pure animal fat = 170 total calories. That is not even counting the marbeling nor the meat. My guess? They’re lying on the label. (Creatively? They’re predicting you’ll grill it and all that fat will cook off? I don’t know how that works though)
I don’t know how to trust labels anymore. I think it’s 250-300+ kcal per 100g (sorry for foreign measurement).
Like, steaks in my country seem to have a realistic calorie count. But there’s bread for 170 kcal per 100g which is ridiculous. Also ready to eat meals are unrealistically low calorie. It’s a scam.
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Yeah, no way. Someone messed up that label 100 grams of ribeye is ~300 calories.
https://understandingag.com/nutritional-comparisons-between-grass-fed-beef-and-conventional-grain-fed-beef/
Grass fed vs grain fed beef makes a difference. Also, nutrition labels are allowed to be off by up to 20%, which makes absolutely no sense, but I digress.
apparently there is only 6 grams of fat in that entire steak, seems legit
Definitely a mistake. It’s going to be about ~950 calories for the whole thing. I would estimate 320 per serving size.
Is it for cooked? Sometimes they assume a certain amount of fat being cooked off and they do cooked calories instead of uncooked. Honestly places should label whether it’s for cooked or uncooked because for example something like raw bacon has a ton of calories but well done bacon has very few for example.
Here is the nutrition for Open Nature grass-fee ribeye according to Nutritionx, which seems much more accurate at 320 cal per 4 oz: https://www.nutritionix.com/i/open-nature/beef-angus-ribeye-steak/641186b583e00000084bf999. This is in line with examples from other brands, as well. So, pretty sure your steak just for the wrong label somehow.
Does that look like 2g of fat per 4oz? Lol
Send these pics to weights and measures office and compain
Hell nah, that marbling makes it a lot higher fat content. To be fair, there is so much variance in ribeye steak macros. Some are more marbled than others, just look for a leaner one.
there really needs to be more regulation when it comes to dietary information. so many nutrition panels have wrong information, even from nationwide chains like trader joes.
last one i actually contacted about it was schweidandsons over ground beef that claimed to be 80/20 but had nutritional information representative of another grind. they were dismissive, these companies dont care because theres no real penalty.
counter question, do the large accumulations of fat add to the total if you don’t eat that fat? sure some will melt into the meat but for the most part – that’s just gonna be a cooked chunk of fat. Maybe they excluded it entirely?
That 4oz = 130 calories seems more like a number for trimmed, lean beef. I think trimmed chicken breast is like 4 oz = 100 calories
I’d just weigh and do the math yourself on whatever the most widely acceptable nutrition info for ribeye is
There are 3 servings in that whole steak
The front says net weight 340g, and the nutrition is showing the calories per serving (stated as 112g, where it also states that the steak is 3 servings per container which is… crazy). So the calories for the entire steak is 394.
Quick edit: also looking at it and doing some googling, 340g of ribeye is about 900 calories so… something here is weird.