How much your chocolate bar really weighs

[BusinessTech]

How much your chocolate bar really weighs

Armed with a scale, a lot of chocolate, and extreme levels of self-control, we found out if SA's favourite brands deliver on their promises.

 

[Iamnotageek]

Jinne my bru gief a stuk there ekse

 

[TJ99]

I always knew Tempo was the bro of chocolate bars.

 

[geezer]

Slow day at the office?

 

[Tacet]

Slow day at the office?

Maybe, but this was a fairly interesting article. A good follow-up will be to buy i.e. 50 of the same Cadbury bar, and get the stats from that: norm, standard deviation...

 

[geezer]

Maybe, but this was a fairly interesting article. A good follow-up will be to buy i.e. 50 of the same Cadbury bar, and get the stats from that: norm, standard deviation...

You are just saying that so you can get the leftover chocolate!

 

[ShiiZZo]

I think statistically that the manufacturer just needs the mean to be the stated weight or slightly heavier. You would still find some that are underweight. A better test would have been to take a sample of 1000 of the same chocolate bar, and calculate the mean from that.

I am available to assist with the investigation.

 

[Praeses]

Using some kitchen scale is quite pointless. How accurate do you think those are? No decimals?

If MyBB sends me all these chocolate bars I'll be more than happy to use my lab's 4-decimal calibrated analytical scale...but I can't guarantee that my lab mates won't eat it all before I send it back

 

[Keeper]

Twix, Mars, M&M's and Snickers are all made by Mars, Inc - so why even put "other" on the graphic if it's all the same company?

lol, has the writer never heard of mars before?
It's not like we were talking Hershey's or anything weird here, Mars has been in SA for ages!


Also, beacon is not actual chocolate... they just sell the idea of chocolate. They actually just use melted plastic, sugar cane, and recycled tires.

 

[Compton_effect]

What gets me is how well hidden the weight of the slabs are nowadays. You need tpo look everywhere to see that they just dropped the weight by 20g. The only one I still trust to be the constant is the 100g Bar One

 

[Ninja'd]

F**k Twix

 

[noxibox]

Using some kitchen scale is quite pointless. How accurate do you think those are?

+/- 0.5g and +/- 1g are typical.

 

[Praeses]

+/- 0.5g and +/- 1g are typical.

Generally the last digit on a scale gets ignored for accuracy's sake, which is why you should use a proper scale for proper comparison.
Also, you don't know how much wear and tear this particular scale has gone through. Without calibration I wouldn't use it to make any significant conclusion.

But I'm just being anal...who cares about a 2% difference?

 

[grok]

F**k Twix

No, Twix f**k you!

 

[CuppaJoe]

They did not test the Cadbury's Whole Nut slab which has been undergoing a remarkable iPhone-like transformation.

Every time I pick one up from the store it is thinner than before.

Apparently this is due to a worldwide shortage of nuts.

Not saying they cheat with the weight, but by not changing the packaging, they are fooling the majority of shoppers into thinking they are getting the same size as always.

http://www.foodstuffsa.co.za/news-stuff/latest-sa-news/3621-cadbury-s-dairy-milk-chocolate-bars-shrink-again

 

[Shi]

Slow day at the office?

or an excuse to enjoys some chocolates

 

[Diesal]

I hereby nominate this as [-]MyBroadband[/-] BusinessTech Article of the Year

/off to buy some chocolate...

 

[Azbubu]

That's quite a variance on the Bar-one. Yours was 109g, mine is 93g.

 

[reactor_sa]

Unless we are all using calibrated scales or the same scale, the scale itself could account for the variance.

 

[FiestaST]

F**k Twix

No Twix is the ****.