It's no secret that Americans today are eating far larger amounts of food than the generations before them. We chow down at restaurants on hefty platters of pasta, pizza and other edibles that could easily make up two or three separate meals.

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At the grocery store, portion sizes of our favorite snack foods have also ballooned over the past 20 years. The average chocolate chip cookie used to run 55 calories; now, it’s 275 calories. And those extra calories add up quickly.

Can you guess how many more calories are in some of America’s most popular foods? Take the quiz below to test your “Portion Distortion” knowledge.

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Angie McBrayer, ex-wife of James Aaron McBrayer, leans her head on her son Sam McBrayer as she and her three children and two grandchildren (from left) Jackson McBrayer, 3, Piper Jae McBrayer, 7, Katy Isaza, and Jordan McBrayer, visit the grave of James McBrayer, Thursday, November 20, 2025, in Tifton. He died after being restrained by Tift County sheriff's deputies on April 24, 2019. His ex-wife witnessed the arrest and said she thought the deputies were being rough but did not imagine that McBrayer would die. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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