Weight in grams or oz on digital scale?

TerraThomas1
TerraThomas1 Posts: 11 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
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?

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  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    edited May 2015
    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
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
    I've read that grams are more accurate.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    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
    Gska17 Posts: 752 Member
    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
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    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
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    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
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    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
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    I use grams whenever possible.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    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
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    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
    minties82 Posts: 907 Member
    I only know metric. Ounces are foreign things to me :-).

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