Have you ever taken a serving of mixed vegetables and sorted it by vegetable? Louis, annoyed at inaccurate depictions of food on labels, decided to sort, count, and weigh the vegetables in his can of Always Save brand canned vegetables. The results? Uh, not so mixed.
Here’s the tally:
- 6 peas, 3 grams
- 2 lima beans, 1.5 grams
- 13 corn, 3 grams
- 1 celery, .25 grams
- 6 green beans, 2.5 grams
- 109 carrots, 146 grams
- 99 potatoes, 149 grams
somebodys got way too much time
O.K. I confess to doing the same thing with a can of succotash. It showed a nice combination of corn, tomatoes and lima beans on the label, but nothing like that inside. By weight, the tomatoes were 80%, the corn 10% and the beans 10%.
My mom does this ALL the time with mixed frozen veggies. She separates the corn, carrots and peas into different bags and then freezes them again so we can pull out whatever we want when we need it. She says it’s a lot cheaper then buying them individually frozen. Recently she stopped doing it though because now she buys fresh corn, cooks it, pulls of every kernel on the cob then freezes that. Now we have guaranteed sweet corn from the freezer.
Why so short on the celery? I figured it would be loaded with it.