The truth about serving sizes...

I noticed a funny thing about the claimed serving sizes during this experiment. Every single popcorn brand tested claimed to deliver more popped corn than they actually did. Have a look.

False advertising:

Brand
Newman's Own
Pop Secret
Jolly Time
Best Choice
Act II
Orville Redenbacker
Labeled Servings/Bag
3
3
2.5
3
2.5
2.5
Actual Servings/Bag
2.9
2.2
2.0
1.8
2.0
1.8

  • No one even comes close, except for Newman's own, and it's still off.
  • Best Choice barely manages to get get half of the claimed serving to pop up.

    • I hadn't thought about the serving size/servings per bag accuracy, until I was done with all my testing.I didn't notice it during the testing either. But after the data was in the table, it really stuck out, so I thought I should mention it.


    Epilogue: How does popcorn pop, anyway? -->