Are the nutrition facts on the back of packaged foods accurate?

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I am eating Spicy Shrimp Roll by World Sushi Express and it says that there 4 gm fat/ 10 rolls. Somehow I find this hard to believe as there is avocado and mayo in this..
http://www.worldsushiexpress.com/menugourmet/spicyshrimp.htm
 
I wouldn't be surprised, since avocados typically have about 30 grams of fat. However, a lot of it is GOOD fat, so don't think of it as a bad thing!
 
Yes, that is a legal nutritional NLEA. I don't see anything wrong with it. The law allows for you to formulate into a nutritional database with known values for standard ingredeints OR to sent the food out to a testing lab which can be VERY VERY expensive! I bet it was developed using a standard nutritional database software.

See this one:

http://www.esha.com/

This is the one I use all the time to develop new NLEA nutritional labels with. I am betting that is what they used.
 
The package is not accurate to an exact but its close.
the FDA allows a small margin for error.
 
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