Calories in beef

JayZ1488

I decided to buy a beef tenderloin Filet Mignon. There's so many sites that say so many differnt numbers. How many calories are in an oz of cooked beef. Sometimes I'm not sure if this site is most accurate with calories on some foods. Thanks for the help!

Andrewcpimpin

Raw about 40 cal per ounce. Loses 20% once cooked. So 40 cal per .8 oz

usmcmp

Look for the foods in the database labeled with "USDA", they tend to be correct. Most food entries are user created, so there are going to be lots of incorrect ones.

JayZ1488

So before cooked a one pound steak is only 640 calories? Some sites say up to 2000 calories a pound.

Francl27

It will never be completely accurate unfortunately as it depends on your piece of beef... but yeah, look for USDA entries.

JayZ1488

usmcmp wrote: »

Look for the foods in the database labeled with "USDA", they tend to be correct. Most food entries are user created, so there are going to be lots of incorrect ones.

Does this look about right? You always seem to have great advice!

JayZ1488

JayZ1488

I try to limit my red meat. I usually eat chicken and fish! But for valentines I'm cooking fillet Mignon, I don't want to eat more than I should in my deficit so knowing close to what it is, is helpful to me!

Andrewcpimpin

No way a half pound of fillet is 2k cal. Now. If you oil it. Bacon wrap it. Drench with bernaise sauce and throw some crab on top you might be about 1400 cal.

Christine_72

I go here when I want to double check something

http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search

Francl27

You want to specific 'cooked' or 'raw' in your search too.

So 'fillet mignon USDA raw'.

sallygroundhog

Andrewcpimpin wrote: »

No way a half pound of fillet is 2k cal. Now. If you oil it. Bacon wrap it. Drench with bernaise sauce and throw some crab on top you might be about 1400 cal.

This sounds FANTASTIC

callsitlikeiseeit

Andrewcpimpin wrote: »

No way a half pound of fillet is 2k cal. Now. If you oil it. Bacon wrap it. Drench with bernaise sauce and throw some crab on top you might be about 1400 cal.

will you be my valentine?

rileysowner

JayZ1488 wrote: »

Your battery is about to run out.

Andrewcpimpin

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

Andrewcpimpin wrote: »

No way a half pound of fillet is 2k cal. Now. If you oil it. Bacon wrap it. Drench with bernaise sauce and throw some crab on top you might be about 1400 cal.

will you be my valentine?

Why not. I am a reformed chef so I can also cook the he'll out of that.

JayZ1488

What's the real number

PAV8888

https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list?qlookup=tenderloin+beef+raw&qt=&manu=&SYNCHRONIZER_URI=/ndb/search/list&SYNCHRONIZER_TOKEN=b42bc46d-e592-47e8-9685-913e73ad4ae7&ds=

CattOfTheGarage

JayZ1488 wrote: »

So before cooked a one pound steak is only 640 calories? Some sites say up to 2000 calories a pound.

It will depend on the cut. Sirloin or ribeye will have more calories than fillet. Something like brisket or shoulder will have even more again. Fillet is about the leanest cut on the cow so the calories per unit weight will be lower than a generic entry for "beef".

Also grass-fed will be leaner than grain-finished, which will be leaner than Wagyu. It depends how precise you want to be.

Grammytryingtogetfit

Christine_72 wrote: »

I go here when I want to double check something

http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search

This right here, I have it bookmarked because there are way too many entries in MFP.

sardelsa

Oh wow were you saving that filet mignon for a whole year? Now that is some good aged beef