Originally Posted by
Happy Feet
I think you have to consider serving or meal size. Otherwise you look at the calories for 100gms of almonds, for example, which may be one serving, and dry oatmeal or couscous which may be two or more servings.
If the "serving size" used in Canada is the same as used in USA, that has nothing to do with nutrition, it was deemed an average size actually eaten in a meal decades ago by some committee. And a lot of those numbers were created in the era before a lot of people became obese. Some of the numbers have changed recently as people started to look at them and realize how stupid some of the numbers were.