Pictured: How calorie counts on packaged food are LYING to you - and could be thwarting your weight loss goals

Pictured: How calorie counts on packaged food are LYING to you - and could be thwarting your weight loss goals READ MORE: Here are ten popular foods secretly making you gain weight By Luke Andrews Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 14:20 BST, 7 June 2024 | Updated: 15:43 BST, 7 June 2024 e-mail 11 View comments Your favorite snack may well contain more calories than you think. This month a lawsuit filed in California against Kroger alleged false advertising after prosecutors found its 'Carbmaster' bread claimed to contain 30 calories per slice on the front of the packaging but 50 calories per slice on the back.

It is just the latest in more than a hundred lawsuits over mislabeling filed every year, with past cases including a 300-calorie Chipotle burrito that turned out to be nearly 800 calories and a 50-calorie hamburger bun that was actually 100 calories. Dr Susan Roberts, who researches food labels at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire , said she wasn't surprised by the cases of mislabeling. 'It's almost impossible to actually police all of these [labels],' she said.

'To a large extent, we're dependent on the honesty of the food companies.' The above picture shows the front of Kroger's Carbmaster bread and then the back, with both giving different calorie counts per slice Others to face lawsuits over calorie counts include Chipotle, which previously advertised its Chorizo burrito as being 300 calories. The company said this was in error, with the 300 re.