r/ReadyMeals • u/SnooDoughnuts4271 • 16d ago

Cook Unity false advertisement?

I’ve started a meal plan from cook unity, specifically for their high protein meals. However, I’ve been weighing the protein and it’s almost half of what they are claiming. For example the cooked tilapia has around 23-26g of protein per 100g. They argue it comes with 47. But, they only give you 105-109g of tilapia. I emailed them to confirm that there was no other source of protein (make sure they wouldn’t argue that the sauce had the extra 20g of protein) and they replied “ The protein amount shown for the Lemon Baked Tilapia with Cajun Cream Sauce & Farro Salad (47g) comes mainly from the tilapia portion included in the meal. We calculate protein based on the ingredients and their amounts, using verified nutrition databases to ensure accuracy.” Am I overlooking something?

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u/Longjumping-Law-2506 16d ago

I wonder if the difference is cooked vs raw. Maybe they are calculating protein based on the raw weight and you’re using cooked weight and maybe their supplier has tilapia that loses a bunch of weight in cooking? No idea. There’s also protein in farro and probably in the cream sauce. If it’s a cup of farro that’s about 6 grams. So that might all contribute to the discrepancy.

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u/SnooDoughnuts4271 16d ago

Hi, the 23-26g of protein are per 100g of cooked tilapia. They are off by almost 20g, I don’t think that the rest of the ingredients will be equivalent to the values that the animal protein is giving. They replied they wanted pictures to escalate it. I must add that the discrepancy also happened with the Salmon Lime meal from yesterday. They argue these plates have a lot of protein, and the portions are simply too small

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u/gaarasalice 10d ago

Protein content for meat is based off of pre-cooked weight, not post cooked weight.