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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 6 months ago (28 children)

TIL that there's an allowed 20% margin of error in accuracy per the FDA.

That seems way bigger than it needs to be ...

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago

For highly processed foods, I agree.

But for relatively unprocessed foods, seems completely reasonable to me at first glance. The relative sugar content of, say, an apple, is dependent on all sorts of parameters (sun, water, soil...). The gluten content of wheat, iron content of vegetables, all of these things are variable. The more "natural" a food is, the higher the variability (as opposed to, say, artificial candy


that should be pretty uniform).

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