Is nutrition info label on ice cream corrected for latent heat of fusion?

Question

What I mean is if ingredients have, say, 50kcal per 100g serving, would the label say 50kcal or 42kcal?

Answer 1

Sorry, there is no correction.

At least in the USA, the USDA determines caloric values by burning the stuff in a calorimeter. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_energy and scroll down to "Measuring food energy."

I have a friend who use to be in the food manufacturing business and he used a computer program. He would input the ingredients and it would spit out the nutritional content, which my friend would put on the label. It his case, the ingredients he used would have been standard values previously determined by a calorimeter.

Although you raise an interesting point. Anyone on a diet should be able to write off a portion of the calories of ice cream.