Take, for instance, this stuff.

http://www.sargento.com/products/161...cheese-sticks/

If fat has 9 calories, and carbs and protein have 4...then this doesn't add up.

Shouldn't it have only 83 calories?

I know that they can legally label something as "0" of something (protein, fat, or carbs) if it's under a certain amount. However, this would mean that if those extra calories are actually carbs, this cheese stick has 1.75 carbs!

I'm not disputing that a 21g serving of sharp cheddar can have 1.75 grams of carbs...but I don't understand how they can label it as 0 carbs. This is, of course, assuming that there isn't also extra fat and protein in the stick they aren't labeling.

Does anyone have any answers?

It's possible that the carbs, fat, and protein have all been rounded down. If there was an extra 0.5 g of each, that would be about 4 calories from fat and 2 each from carbs and protein. I'm not sure if they can round down an extra 0.5 g labeling-wise, but that would square the math. Most of the cheddar cheese I eat does have 1 g of carbs per serving on their labels so it's reasonable that there would be 0.5 g in this formulation.

This is why I hate food regulations in America. They basically regulate that producers can be liars. And they wonder why American's are obese.