10 Calorie Greek Salad

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Created on 01, June, 2010

A restaurant nutrition app and Web site shows 10 calories for a Greek Salad.

This is completely impossible...even if the salad had no dressing. The nutrition data also show 24 grams total fat, so there must be at least 218 calories from just the fat, plus the calories from carbohydrate (12 grams shown will provide 48 calories) and protein (58 grams shown provide 232 cal.) for an actual total of 494 calories (which should be rounded up to 500). This is a fairly common situation with online and app data. Automated database compilation of nutrition data from various unvetted sources often gets less accurate the more it is processed, and these sites/apps rarely have anyone checking the data they serve.