Egg Weights?

sunnyazgirl

OK, I have been very diligent in weighing all of my food possible and finally broke through a long plateau. So, I am a believer in weighing food! However, I decided to break from my norm this mornng and make an omelet instead of my usual oatmeal. I don't eat eggs that often, but I did buy a new crate about a week ago - Kroger Large Eggs. In the year that I have been doing MFP I have always counted large eggs as 70 calories each, which is the USDA calorie count for a large whole egg. So I weighed two large eggs . First, I did not know if the weight for whole large eggs was with or without the shell, so I erred on the side of caution and went with the shell. With the shell, two eggs came to 121 grams, which translates to 85 calories. ????? I would have counted those as 140 calories in the past. That is a big difference. I checked my scale calibration and it was spot on.

The only thing that I can figure is that since the eggs did not go straight from the hen to my scale there must have been some shrinkage going on of water weight and the calories were probably still there. Am I right in this thinking? I took out my grams calculation and replaced it with just 2 large eggs. I would rather log larger than smaller as far as my calories go, but also want to be as accurate as possible.

SimoneBee12

So, the two eggs that you weighed end up being about 0.7 calories per gram, meaning the large egg you normally use would need to be 100g, probably not likely. Biggest chicken egg I've ever seen is like, what, 75g?

Let me check, okay, when I added 121g to my diary using the USDA entry, I got 173 calories. You must have just used an incorrect entry. 1g of egg is 1.43 calories, not 0.7.

Check your entry.

arditarose

I have no idea what you are talking about with the shrinkage from hen to scale. Also, do you eat the egg shell??!

Most medium to large eggs are 50-60 grams. Without the shell.

jaga13

Why would you count the shell if you aren't eating it?

ValerieMartini2Olives

jaga13 wrote: »

Why would you count the shell if you aren't eating it?

Bingo.

arditarose

I've seen you mention before how into weighing your food you are so this question surprises me.

Francl27

You don't weigh the shell.

But I've seen large eggs go from 45 to 56g.

sunnyazgirl

I frst weghed wthout the shell, but the calories were so low that I went back with two more eggs and weighed with the shell. I thought that the weight might mean with the shell as it said one whole egg. I must have used an incorrect entry. I will look again. I did try it under two different entries in the database. Without the shell the weight of the two eggs together was 106 grams, so about 53 g each.

I have been weighing all of my food for the last couple of weeks, but I seldom use eggs. So it was new for me. And yes, as eggs age they tend to shrink, which is why to test an egg for freshness you can put it in water. If it floats to the top (lighter) then it has shrunk and it is not fresh. Old farmer's trick. I did not do this as I assumed they were fresh.

lynn_glenmont

There's roughly a quarter-ounce range (or about 7 grams) for large eggs in the U.S. -- or, percentage-wise, an egg on the low end of the range for large eggs should weigh about 10% less than an egg on the high end of the range. We're probably talking about a max of 10 calories difference between any two large eggs, and I've always figured that over time it averages out (sometimes you're getting a "small" large egg, and sometimes you're getting a "large" large egg). Besides, I seldom eat more than three eggs in a day, and if that potential 30 calorie logging error is my biggest problem, I'm in pretty good shape.

sunnyazgirl

OK, I went back and found another entry when I searched for "whole eggs, grams". Entering the egg weght without the shell for 106 grams it came to 148 calories, 8 calories above my 2 whole eggs estimate, so I corrected it. As I said I used two entries in the database and came up much lower. So, that makes me pretty nervous about the database! I knew somethng was wrong with the eggs (hence my question), but some items I put in are completely new to me. I guess I will double check whenever I find something that does not seem quite right.

Thank you all.

Phrick

There used to be an entry for "egg, whole, raw" in the database - before UnderArmour rolled out the whole new "verified entry" deal - it was the "official" entry with no asterisk meaning it was NOT user-entered.... gee whiz what a shocker, it seems to have disappeared from the database recently (noted about a week ago when I made a quiche for my family who use MFP and I went to enter the recipe and that entry wasn't anywhere to be found).

I switched to a different app for tracking my food an exercise about a week after MFP introduced iOS 6.0, because I was so frustrated with the changes that had been taking place for months and the "customer happiness team" basically told me to put up for a premium membership or shut up and quit my whining about their FREE service. I now hang around for the forums and my friends list only, because my mom and sister started using MFP and wanted my help learning to navigate it. I've been home for a visit for a couple of weeks now and have been doing a lot of the cooking and as such, entering recipes for them to use. What I've discovered: the MFP database and the recipe tool are still a *$&^ing disaster, they haven't changed much and certainly have not *improved* at all that I can tell in the 3+ months I've been away at the other site!