Not Funny

I’d just opened a kitchen cabinet to take out some coffee (yes, instant) when I happened to notice the nutritional value on a box of granulated sugar.  The first thing I noticed was that a serving size was listed as 30 grams.  In case you Americans don’t know, that’s a lot of sugar — a can of Coke has about 13.  But what was more interesting was that, along with all the zeros under protein, fat, etc. etc., under "sugars" it said 29 grams.  Now remember, we’re talking about a box of sugar.  A 30 gram serving of sugar should contain 30 grams of sugar.  Instead, it contains 29.  And nowhere on the box did it explain what that extra gram is.

Can anyone help solve the mystery of the missing gram?

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