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Here's how many calories you're really eating for lunch

Here's how many calories you're really eating for lunch

Starbucks Caramel Frappuccino: 7% fewer calories than posted

Olive Garden chicken Alfredo: 3% fewer calories than posted

KFC famous bowl: 1% fewer calories than posted

McDonald's large fries: 14% more calories than posted

Chipotle chicken burrito: 21% more calories than posted

McDonald's Big Mac: 23% more calories than posted

Pizza Hut pepperoni personal pizza: 26% more calories than posted

Some variation from the official count should be expected, depending on how your food is prepared. Here's what companies said about these discrepancies:

McDonald's did not respond to a request for comment.

Chipotle: "Our food is prepared in our restaurants and assembled to order by the people who work there (not by machine as you would have in a packaged food production facility), so there is always the possibility of some variation in calories, tough we work hard to be sure portions are consistent and correct."

KFC (Yum! Brands): "We send a composite sample of our products to an outside third part for nutritional analysis, which includes caloric content."

Starbucks: "We calculate the nutritional information based on standard recipes, and use best-in-class resources such as USDA guidelines for commodities like milk and our suppliers' nutritional information for ingredients such as sauces and syrups."

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