[cathyw]

I'm not sure if you remember my other thread about wrong labels on Sami's products? Not only was all the nutrition facts wrong, but their bread had preservatives in it, and artificial ingredients, and that is one thing that they really promoted was "ALL NATURAL, NO PRESERVATIVES" My health food grocery story did an investigation on them, after I went to them with my questions. They sent the products to their own lab, and BOOM they were busted!! So the store pulled the products.

Well I was questioning my bag of Butternut Squash that I buy from the same grocery store. It is a frozen bag of Organic Diced Butternut Squash. I've fallen in love with this item, and eat it quite often. I have a scale so I always measure what I eat, but the nutrition facts were so low on this item, that I would easily eat the whole bag. Once you cooked it, the volume was low, so it was like eating a big bowl of oatmeal (volume wise).

I buy a few bags a week, and one day I noticed that the calories on one of the bags was different than the other bags, and that got me thinking.
So I called the company, and talked with a lady, she told me she would look in to it, and get back with me. Well I waited over 2 weeks, and heard nothing.
I called her yesterday, and she said "Oh, yes I just got that info. on my desk today, and I think our nutrition facts on our product is wrong."

Here is what the counts should be.......
1 Cup
calories 94
carbs 24

Here is what the bag says, and what I was going by....
1 cupcalories 24
Carbs 4
Fiber 1
so 3 net carbs

Can you believe that much of a difference!!! So when I was eating the whole bag I was eating over 200 calories, and 50 carbs!!!!! Yet I thought I was getting such a deal by thinking I was eating around 55 calories, and only 6 net carbs!!!!! That is a BIG difference when your watching your calories AND your carbs.

Some of you will say that I should have known that Butternut Squash was a winter squash, and that it is higher than summer squash, well now I know. I was really going by what the bag said, since it didn't seem like enough squash to make the calories high.

So the company said they would get the packaging changed, and send me some free products for my trouble

It just makes you wonder if any packaging is ever right?? And for those that are having trouble loosing the weight, if they are eating more calories than they know by false nutrition facts??

The company that makes this butternut squash is "Stahlbush Island Farms" it is supposed to be organic, and it cost a pretty penny!!

Consumers beware

[JayEll]

This is why I love FitDay.

I entered butternut squash, frozen and then cooked, and it told me 1 cup, 94 calories, 24 carbs.

It's easy for errors to creep into packaging. It might be a good product even if their label was off.

You're right, though--it's buyer be alert!

Jay

[kalikat003]

Wow that is brutual... I need to be more aware. Thanks for the heads up and your hard work!