On my next trip to the grocery store I started examining the serving sizes of the products that I was buying. According to the label, a six ounce can of tuna fish serves two and a half people. I'm not sure that the strange portion size is for the public's health guidelines. I think that the manufacturers of these products want to look good. But telling the buying public that a portion of food has only five grams of fat when a portion is only two ounces seems dishonest.
Food labels have to be more truthful to the consumers.
Selling a product on the basis that a single serving is low in calories and fat when in fact no one consumes a single serving, is unreasonable. Labels should give the full amount of calories, fat grams, sodium and carbohydrate per package of each product. Let us do the math for a single portion. The numbers will be higher, and maybe the product won't look as wonderful, but at least the consumer won't be fooled. As for my little dinner, well, four people ate the full pound of spaghetti, no matter what the label said, and there were no left overs.