Weight in grams or oz on digital scale?

TerraThomas1

Have you noticed a huge difference between weighing your food in oz vs. grams? Are there certain foods you always measure in oz or grams?

juggernaut1974

grams, being lighter than ounces, will generally result in a more accurate reading.

For example, anything from 15g to about 42g will all show as "1 ounce" due to rounding. For lower-calorie dense foods, it's probably not a big deal...but for others (think peanut butter) it could make a pretty good difference in calories.

strong_curves

I've read that grams are more accurate.

jemhh

My scale goes to the hundredth of an ounce so it is no big deal either way. However, I kind of like grams because most gram entries are based on 100 grams, which is a nice round number.

Gska17

I too have read grams are more accurate but I tend to use whatever unit is listed on the package. If there is no package I'll try to use grams.

juggernaut1974

jemhh wrote: »

My scale goes to the hundredth of an ounce so it is no big deal either way. However, I kind of like grams because most gram entries are based on 100 grams, which is a nice round number.

Doh...foiled by those pesky decimals again!

Alyssa_Is_LosingIt

ceoverturf wrote: »

grams, being lighter than ounces, will generally result in a more accurate reading.

For example, anything from 15g to about 42g will all show as "1 ounce" due to rounding. For lower-calorie dense foods, it's probably not a big deal...but for others (think peanut butter) it could make a pretty good difference in calories.

If only 42g of peanut butter had the same number of calories as 15g. *sigh*

999tigger

err they are just units of measurement. I'd use grams because each gram is a smaller unit, rather than using a fraction of an oz. You could be just as accurate with oz, but its more fiddly.

Not sure how you get a huge difference unless you mean 28.35 grams per oz, so you get a number that many times bigger, but they weigh the same.

I use grams.

Ready2Rock206

I use grams whenever possible.

jemhh

I think that people might like grams because if you have something that has nutrition info based on 100 g and what you're eating is 161 g, you just have to enter 1.61 in the serving size box. If it's based on 3 oz. and you're eating 5.68 ounces, you have to divide 5.68 by 3 to get 1.89 and then enter that in the serving box. So there's an extra step.

I also like grams because there's no "." after the abbreviation so it is quicker to type plus, on my phone, it doesn't try to capitalize the next word in the sentence.

999tigger

Thats a really good point Jemh. The info per 100g labeling is law here and its my natural way of thinking on nutrition. They still use oz (imperial) for when its larger weights or as tradition, but a lot less common.

minties82

I only know metric. Ounces are foreign things to me :-).