Banana Weight

workhardtogethard

Hi, does anyone know if the weight of a banana includes its peel or not? My first thought is that the 89 calories for 100 grams worth of banana is without the peel, but I don't want to miscalculate. (Gotta do all I can to avoid making a "why am I not losing weight" thread a month from now. )

squishprincess

yea, you just measure what you eat. you don't include the wrapper for other foods you eat, so this one is the same way.

livingleanlivingclean

Weigh the part you eat

cuckoo_jenibeth

I personally only weight the edible portion of fruits, i.e. no peals, no cores, no pits. I guarantee others will agree & many others will disagree! But, I have lost 80+ pounds in the last 11.5 months, so it worked for me!

cwolfman13

do you eat the peel?

Ninkyou

Without the peel.

glassyo

I wonder if anyone has ever eaten the peel.

workhardtogethard

Thanks, everyone! And LOL at the jokesters…knew this could turn out to be a silly question, but I had to ask. Recently came across a YouTube video where someone actually eats the banana peel. Then that led me to a Google search, where I learned this is apparently a thing with some people.

cwolfman13

workhardtogethard wrote: »

Thanks, everyone! And LOL at the jokesters…knew this could turn out to be a silly question, but I had to ask. Recently came across a YouTube video where someone actually eats the banana peel. Then that led me to a Google search, where I learned this is apparently a thing with some people.

good, you have a sense of humor...you will do fine here...

livingleanlivingclean

glassyo wrote: »

I wonder if anyone has ever eaten the peel.

I know someone who puts whole bananas, including peel, into smoothies. I think the skin might actually be good for you?

glassyo

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

glassyo wrote: »

I wonder if anyone has ever eaten the peel.

I know someone who puts whole bananas, including peel, into smoothies. I think the skin might actually be good for you?

LOL well the youtube video and your friend answers *that* question!

DaveAkeman

The answer shouldn't be based on whether or not you eat the peel. The answer needs to be based on how the person who entered the food into database weighed it . . . you need to weigh it the same way.

And - guess what - there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY of knowing that!!! (Although I suspect that it was measured with the peel . . . )

This is a classic example of why anybody who thinks they can track their calories with exquisite accuracy is just plain bananas.

However . . . here is a logical way out of this dilemma . . . if you measure it WITH the peel and the person who entered it measured WITHOUT the peel, then you will be OVERestimating your calories. If, on the other hand, you measure it WITHOUT the peel and the person who entered it measured it WITH the peel, you will be UNDERestimating your calories.

Because the end goal is to create a calorie deficit, I always try to OVERestimate the calories I put into my log.

Therefore, I would measure it WITH the peel.

barbecuesauce

workhardtogethard wrote: »

Thanks, everyone! And LOL at the jokesters…knew this could turn out to be a silly question, but I had to ask. Recently came across a YouTube video where someone actually eats the banana peel. Then that led me to a Google search, where I learned this is apparently a thing with some people.

Well as it turns out (I looked this up last time this thread came around), the USDA does not analyze the nutritional content of the banana peel (or egg shells, because eating those are a thing too). Only the banana meat is analyzed.

I truly have no idea what we call the inside of a banana. Banana flesh? Banana meat? Banana stuffing?

Becca_250

I did actually wonder that myself, I was going on the basis that it was easier to throw the banana on the scale before peeling (and eating)

barbecuesauce

Becca_250 wrote: »

I did actually wonder that myself, I was going on the basis that it was easier to throw the banana on the scale before peeling (and eating)

And then you tare the scale and put the peel by itself on there again.

sheldonklein

DaveAkeman wrote: »

The answer shouldn't be based on whether or not you eat the peel. The answer needs to be based on how the person who entered the food into database weighed it . . . you need to weigh it the same way.

And - guess what - there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY of knowing that!!! (Although I suspect that it was measured with the peel . . . )

This is a classic example of why anybody who thinks they can track their calories with exquisite accuracy is just plain bananas.

However . . . here is a logical way out of this dilemma . . . if you measure it WITH the peel and the person who entered it measured WITHOUT the peel, then you will be OVERestimating your calories. If, on the other hand, you measure it WITHOUT the peel and the person who entered it measured it WITH the peel, you will be UNDERestimating your calories.

Because the end goal is to create a calorie deficit, I always try to OVERestimate the calories I put into my log.

Therefore, I would measure it WITH the peel.

It's not true that there is no way to know how calories were measured. There are USDA Standard methodologies. They exclude peel, pits etc.

glassyo

DaveAkeman wrote: »

This is a classic example of why anybody who thinks they can track their calories with exquisite accuracy is just plain bananas.

I see what you did there.