Calories in bacon
brettb1984
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Calories in bacon
I weighed three slices of Naturally Hardwood Smoked Oscar Mayer Bacon. They weighed 2.75 ounces. This is equivalent to approximately 78 g. The nutritional information on the package indicates 14 g equals 70 calories. So if I have the math right I am eating approximately 390 calories of bacon.
I also weighed the bacon after cooking. I cook my bacon until it was crisp. After cooking it weighed 1.02 ounces. I measured the amount of fat that cooked out of the bacon and this came to 2 tablespoons. According to fatsecret.com bacon fat contains 39 calories per tablespoon. For a total of 78 calories. Since the fat cooked out of the bacon I ate I don’t feel that these calories should be counted.
What would be the best way to determine how many calories I actually ate for the three slices of bacon? Should I calculate the cooked or the uncooked weight?
I do think the fat ratios of the uncooked bacon changed after cooking. Could this also affect calorie consumption for cooked bacon?
I weighed three slices of Naturally Hardwood Smoked Oscar Mayer Bacon. They weighed 2.75 ounces. This is equivalent to approximately 78 g. The nutritional information on the package indicates 14 g equals 70 calories. So if I have the math right I am eating approximately 390 calories of bacon.
I also weighed the bacon after cooking. I cook my bacon until it was crisp. After cooking it weighed 1.02 ounces. I measured the amount of fat that cooked out of the bacon and this came to 2 tablespoons. According to fatsecret.com bacon fat contains 39 calories per tablespoon. For a total of 78 calories. Since the fat cooked out of the bacon I ate I don’t feel that these calories should be counted.
What would be the best way to determine how many calories I actually ate for the three slices of bacon? Should I calculate the cooked or the uncooked weight?
I do think the fat ratios of the uncooked bacon changed after cooking. Could this also affect calorie consumption for cooked bacon?
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I would go with the weight after cooking since that is what you actually ate and the calories on the package since that is the information you have to go by.0
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Log it raw and stop being obsessive
It's all estimates0 -
Does the label say just 14 g as the serving size or does it say something like "1 slice (14 g)"? Like this:
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I log it raw!
Cook it....Drain the fat... (even pat the bacon down to soak up excess fat or don't)
Then eat it!! Yummy!
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Isn't bacon usually one of the few things that gives their serving size/weight as something like 2 pan fried slices? In other words, isn't it one of the few things that's more accurate to weight after cooking?0
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The nutritional info for bacon is usually for cooked slices. Since you cook it up crisp and render most of the fat out, your nutritional info should be pretty much in line with the label. Weigh after you cook it and log that.0
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crystalflame wrote: »The nutritional info for bacon is usually for cooked slices. Since you cook it up crisp and render most of the fat out, your nutritional info should be pretty much in line with the label. Weigh after you cook it and log that.
I was told by the people at Oscar Meyer that the package information listed calories for the uncooked weight.0 -
lol. I'd rather weigh it before cooking... better to overestimate than under0
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campdawson wrote: »
Depending how many slices of bacon I eat the cooked versus the uncooked weight could add up to several hundred calories.0 -
I go with what the package says. Some will say a "serving size cooked" or something like that. But now I want bacon because of this thread!0
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Just log it the way the package says. Three slices of a bacon labeled as "X calories for 1 pancooked slice" means that 3X = calories. Don't make things more complicated than needed.0
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Look at the package of bacon. Do the total fat grams plus the total protein grams equal the same number of grams in a serving size? If not, they are talking about COOKED bacon.
In other words, on the package shown above, a serving is 14 grams. However, the breakdown is for 6 grams of fat (54 calories) and 4 grams of protein (16 calories ) for a total of 10 grams and 70 calories. The other 4 grams of weight in the serving size listed HAVE to be fat that is rendered. No other way to come up with the breakdown of macros listed.
So, Oscar Mayer is telling you the weight of a serving raw, but the calories of that same serving, cooked. Likely because they know it will be cooked. But, if you put that bacon in a dish where you don't render the fat, then the calories would be increased by 36.
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Now I want some bacon.0
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Log it raw, this way you can cook in the bacon fat. You are never going to be 100% accurate, try your best.0
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If you are that worried about the calories in your bacon, get the calorie count for each slice raw. Count the slices. Multiple each slice times the calorie count per slice. Cook the slices. Drain all the fat off and measure it. Find out the calorie count for bacon fat. Subtract the calories in the bacon fat. Divide by the number of slices.
Voila! Calories in your bacon. (This is how I figured out how many calories are in my peanut butter after I drain the oil out - which I do purely because I like the way my peanut butter tastes without the oil!)0 -
Are you outside the US? That (meaning the picture above) is our most common type of bacon. You can get other kinds but that is the one you see the most. We went to Canada last year and I had peameal bacon and mmmmm, yum.0 -
I would go with the weight after cooking since that is what you actually ate and the calories on the package since that is the information you have to go by.
The weight on the package is probably the raw weight unless it says otherwise, so that would be a good way to undercount.
Just use the package information; it assumes you eat it cooked and doesn't include the calories from all the fat.
This may be heresy on MFP, but for packaged bacon (which I eat pretty rarely) I just go with the number of slices. I only weigh if it's the thick fattier stuff I get from a farm.0 -
Most of the labels I've seen list it as cooked weight. If you're really concerned about over or under estimating due to your limits, start measuring in grams instead of ounces. Even when you do have to wing it a little (no 2 slices of cooked bacon will be cooked to the exact same amount as the label), you're not estimating quite as much. 1oz=28.3g, so ounces will round a lot more, especially after you enter them into mfp.0
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Are you outside the US? That (meaning the picture above) is our most common type of bacon. You can get other kinds but that is the one you see the most. We went to Canada last year and I had peameal bacon and mmmmm, yum.
Yup
This is our standard back bacon...cut off the visible fat of 2 rashers, grill, slap in between white thick cut toast with butter, a fried egg and red or brown sauce, large mug of coffee ...et voila, Sunday breakfast in bed for 400 cals.
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