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    Store Brand Mixed Vegetables: Not Quite As Mixed As You Would Think

    Have you ever taken a serving of mixed vegetables and sorted it by vegetable? Louis, annoyed at inaccurate depictions of food on labels, decided to sort, count, and weigh the vegetables in his can of Always Save brand canned vegetables. The results? Uh, not so mixed.

    Here's his tally:

    6 peas, 3 grams
    2 lima beans, 1.5 grams
    13 corn, 3 grams
    1 celery, .25 grams
    6 green beans, 2.5 grams
    109 carrots, 146 grams
    99 potatoes, 149 grams

    Not quite the distribution shown on the label, is it? Maybe the green vegetables have been hit with a grocery invisibility ray. Not to knock potatoes and carrots, which are nutritious and extremely tasty, but that's not quite the mix one would expect from the label.

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