Don't Eat the Popcorn..or maybe not so much

Been to the movies lately?
If you indulge with buying the popcorn combos from the concession stand then take a look at these numbers:

* this info is from this article.

Cineplex Odeon
1,141 calories
67 g fat
1,128 mg sodium
Cineplex said a large popcorn had 850 calories, 40.5 g fat and 399 mg sodium

Empire Theatres
1,116 calories
51 g fat
1,695 mg sodium
Empire said it had 637 calories, 28.5 g fat and 1,297 mg sodium

AMC
1,060 calories
62.6 g fat
883 mg sodium
The company didn't provide us with their own nutritional information

As for why there were such discrepancies, the serving sizes we picked up at the theatres were larger than the ones the companies used in their testing. Both companies also blamed human error for inconsistent methods used to prepare the popcorn.

When the same large bags of popcorn were analyzed with buttered topping, the calories jumped to 1,400:

Cineplex Odeon
1,420 calories
100 g fat
1,095 mg sodium

Empire Theatres
1,225 calories
67 g fat
2,114 mg sodium

AMC
1,138 calories
69 g fat
694 mg sodium