My grievance is that your nutritional information is insanely hard to understand! 3 tablespoons = 150 calories. 5 cups = 130 calories but then one bag is something like 12 cups?! Are you using new math popcorn?! How do you get 12 cups out of 3 tablespoons?! Was there a meeting or a memo or a TPS report that I missed, popcorn?!

I shall now attempt to wrestle you to the floor, as is Festivus tradition popcorn.

I see a different problem. The total bag is 12 cups, that is clear enough. The problen I see is 3 tbsp = 150 calories and 5 cups = 130 calories.There are many more than 3 tbsp in a cup therefore 5 cups should be many more calories than 3 tbsp.
There are actually 16 tbsp in a cup.

Did you feel that? My head just exploded.

Math eludes me, so I stick to the 100 calorie bag popcorn.

This. I am so doing this from now on.

Doesn't a big bag have 12 cups (less? more? ) BUT that's like 3 servings per bag?

Does the bag say how many servings in bag ? Does it say how many calories in a serving ? You have me so intrigued I want to go out and buy a bag but I have never heard of this brand of popcorn.

Nope, just says 3 tbs is 150 calories and 5 cups is 130 calories. There are 3 bags in the box, the box says that there are 3 servings. BUT when you measure the bag, it comes out to 12 cups..It's Kroger Natural popcorn and Meijer Naturals Original popcorn..both of them are..well they're 3 oz bags, which just adds to the mystery of the serving size.

Why is this so hard?!?!

This made me LOL; I thought it was mine I felt!

It is telling you the calories in 3 tablespoons of UNPOPPED popcorn versus 5 cups of POPPED popcorn. The box also says three servings PER BAG.

I do agree that they should align their unpopped and popped serving sizes. For example, I've seen many popcorn bags that show 3 tablespoons of unpopped versus the calories in 1 cup of popped popcorn. They are embracing 3 tablespoons of unpopped popcorn as the serving size, but you could easily misread it to believe that there are just 30 calories per serving when they elect to report it that way.

In short, though, this is accurate: 3 tablespoons of unpopped corn has X calories. But you don't EAT unpopped corn, and the popping rate varies.

So they also tell you that 5 cups of popped corn has X calories. How much each bag produces depends on how long you let it keep popping.

A box with 3 bags in it and it says there are 3 servings so each bag must be one serving.
What I don't get is ....
3 tbsp = 150 calories
5 cups = 130 calories
That just doesn't compute
This is new math all right , so new it hasn't been invented yet.

I use my theater popcorn maker. I can measure the coconut oil and the popcorn myself. Then eat without worry. And so yummy!!

My air popper died last week and I was planning on replacing it after the holidays. I had re-discovered these boxes in the back of my cupboard and thought "Hmm! ok!"

Little did I know I was about to unleash mathematical mayhem on myself, then have to go back on MFP and re-enter my whoopsies.

Ah, so you outlasted your popcorn popper! Congrats on your feats-of-strength victory!

bargoo - the difference is in UNPOPPED popcorn and POPPED popcorn. The first number is for UNPOPPED popcorn, i.e. the kernels before the magic happens.

The second set of numbers is for POPPED popcorn, i.e., AFTER popping, the stuff you actually eat. IF you measured popped popcorn by tablespoons you would get 1 or 2 kernals, maybe.

One tablespoon of unpopped popcorn = about 2 cups of popped popcorn. So two tablespoons = about 4 cups, and 3 tablespoons = about six cups.