calories in supplements
yirara
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I'm on quite a few supplements at the moment (Ca, Mg, Fe, B12, D3. prescribed by doctor) and wonder how many calories they have as I like acurate logging. Surely they should have some calories, right?
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majoring in the minor eh?
None. Those are minerals and vitamins.0 -
I take a fair few supplements too, including fish oil, epo and chia. I don't count the calories which would be negligible. Contact the manufacturers who will be able to let you know.0
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Most of mine list 0, but some have a few calories. I assume the calories are from the shell of the thing, but am not sure.
Check the label on the bottle.0 -
Nah I supplement with vitamins quite a bit too. I list them in my food diary but the calories are practically zilch. I wouldn't be worried about them at all calorie wise.0
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I take many vitamins and count my calories. Fish oil and primrose oils have 10 each and cranberry has some too. My others don't have it on the bottle so I don't have anything to go by so I just go by whatever the listing in the database has.0
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Oh and IMO no amount of calories is negligible. When I realized omitting sugar and creamer from my coffee every day was saving me 36500 a year I did a happy dance. But now of course those calories are from vitamins bit at least it's not doubled anymore.0
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Check the bottles and ingredients. If it is straight minerals and vitamins it is negligible. Things like fish oil are supplements and are more likely to contain calories that you should log.0
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I'm on quite a few supplements at the moment (Ca, Mg, Fe, B12, D3. prescribed by doctor) and wonder how many calories they have as I like acurate logging. Surely they should have some calories, right?
i scan the barcodes on packaging using the handy scanner on app.
most are 0, but take one 4x daily for 20cal that i log.
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doctorsookie wrote: »Oh and IMO no amount of calories is negligible. When I realized omitting sugar and creamer from my coffee every day was saving me 36500 a year I did a happy dance. But now of course those calories are from vitamins bit at least it's not doubled anymore.
Exactly! That's how I see it, though in my case it wasn't creamer but crisps and sweets, and I'm not telling what the yearly total was
The bottles of my suplements don't list anything other than ingredients. There's some cellulose, but the amount is uncertain. As are the other ingredients. I nly get the dodgy ones here I guess I can't go wrong with adding some 10kcal for each day...0 -
Most don't - but I take gummy vitamins and they have calories. What I do is use the recipe builder - scan all the labels - save it as daily vitamins. Then in the morning I just pop that one entry into my diary. If I change brands or anything when I run out I just update the recipe. Easy peasy.0
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