A 'calorie detective' found something shocking about the calorie listings on food labels by Kathleen Elkins on Jan 2, 2016, 9:58 PM Advertisement
 Walk into any grocery store or bodega for a packaged snack and you'll probably be able to find the nutritional information. Or if you're stopping by a fast food spot or chain restaurant, chances are you'll be reminded of just how many calories you're about to consume, thanks to the listings on the menu. How spot-on are these listings? Filmmaker Casey Neistat decided to test the accuracy for himself on five different food items, with the help of two food scientists and their bomb calorimeter at the New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. "By testing only five items, my little study is hardly conclusive," he writes on The New York Times. But his findings certainly raise a few red flags. Here's what he found and documented in his 2013 short film, "The Truth Behind Calorie Labels:" SEE ALSO: The big pizza lobby doesn't want you to know how many calories are in a slice He picked the foods he would typically eat in a single day, starting with a packaged 'yogurt muffin.' The muffin supposedly had a whopping 640 calories — according to the food scientists' bomb calorimeter, it has an incredible 734.7 calories packed into it. 
Next up was a grande Starbucks Frappuccino with whipped cream. Starbucks claimed it contained 370 calories, and they weren't far off — Neistat found a discrepancy of just 22.9 calories. "The girls at Starbucks liked me. They probably just gave me an extra squirt." 
There was a bit more of a discrepancy with the Chipotle barbacoa burrito. The actual count was about 10% more than what Chipotle claimed, a fairly significant amount of unaccounted for calories. 
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