According to Consumerist, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has determined that "100 Calorie Packs" of various snack foods are a total ripoff. Turns out those little bags of crackers and cookies have a per-ounce cost two to three times higher than the same thing in larger packages.
Does this surprise anyone? Really?
The processed food industry runs on a system of taking extremely cheap products, adding some sort of "value" to them, and re-selling them at a huge markup. The real story here is how much money got wasted by the CSPI to "figure out" that buying in bigger packages saves money. These 100 calorie packs are just another way for the processed food industry to charge a premium for the lowest-possible-quality product. As a bonus, in packaging them by calorie content, GiantFoodCo also gets to bask in the glow of appearing to do something healthy for the consumer, while simultaneously feeding us more high fructose corn syrup.
