Oil content in home roasted and ground Coffee - Calories?

poteatkd

Hello Community,

I roast and grind my own coffee. Home roasting produces a coffee that isn't as "dry" as the store bought grounds whether it is already roasted beans such as what you can buy at Starbucks, or already roasted and ground big brands such as Maxwell House or Folgers.

Since roasting and grinding fresh green coffee beans produces more oil rich grounds, I am a little scared that my coffee might contain more calories than what I am logging.

Has anyone been successful in figuring out the caloric content of their fresh coffee? The green beans I use are Java beans. Since starting MFP, I've been logging a cup of coffee as having 2 calories which is verified by MFP for a cup of coffee brewed with grounds. Also I drink my coffee black.

Much help needed with this.

Thank you in advance

janejellyroll

I don't roast my own coffee, but most of the coffee I drink is bought from local places that have just roasted it and I grind it myself. So I notice it is much more oil-rich that typical coffee grounds.

I have always just logged it as typical coffee and my weight loss/maintaining has been as expected.

Is there a calorie difference? Probably. But how much are you drinking? You might be talking about 10 calories in a cup instead of 5 (4-5 is what my coffee typically works out to when I log it by ounce). There is probably more of a variance in the fruits, meats, and other foods you're eating than coffee.

missblondi2u

I don't even bother logging my coffee. I log the sugar I add, but not the actual coffee. It's been inconsequential to my weight loss.

emdeesea

I just read somewhere that the calorie difference is basically negligible - like somewhere between 2 and 5 calories per 8 ounce serving, depending on whether or not the bean is deep roasted and how fresh the roast is. Either way, not really worth worrying about. You'd get a better calorie reduction by using a food scale to weigh all of your solid food and not using estimates or those generic MFP entries that are in there (like 'medium sized apple').

CoffeeNCardio

missblondi2u wrote: »

I don't even bother logging my coffee. I log the sugar I add, but not the actual coffee. It's been inconsequential to my weight loss.

Ditto.

poteatkd

Awesome advice and input! I think I will start logging it @ 5 calories a cup per Jane's measurements. I do like to log my coffee because 10 calories can be the difference between having 2 cups of spinach or not.

Kudos Emdeesea for calling me out on that apple. LOL you are correct. Yesterday I weighed my chopped up apple and found out that I'd been eating approximately 30 calories more than what I had logged.

This is the first time I've ever done anything like this. I very much welcome criticisms and input and will always have my diary open.

Thank you so much ladies!

SonyaCele

poteatkd wrote: »

Awesome advice and input! I think I will start logging it @ 5 calories a cup per Jane's measurements. I do like to log my coffee because 10 calories can be the difference between having 2 cups of spinach or not.

Kudos Emdeesea for calling me out on that apple. LOL you are correct. Yesterday I weighed my chopped up apple and found out that I'd been eating approximately 30 calories more than what I had logged.

This is the first time I've ever done anything like this. I very much welcome criticisms and input and will always have my diary open.

Thank you so much ladies!

you shouldn't not eat an extra helping of spinach because you had an extra cup of coffee. Spinach is a low cal type superfood. eat as much as you want, and dont worry about the calories in it its benefits far out weigh the couple of calories it has. Apples on the other hand contain sugar, limit and log fruits.

emdeesea

poteatkd wrote: »

Awesome advice and input! I think I will start logging it @ 5 calories a cup per Jane's measurements. I do like to log my coffee because 10 calories can be the difference between having 2 cups of spinach or not.

Kudos Emdeesea for calling me out on that apple. LOL you are correct. Yesterday I weighed my chopped up apple and found out that I'd been eating approximately 30 calories more than what I had logged.

This is the first time I've ever done anything like this. I very much welcome criticisms and input and will always have my diary open.

Thank you so much ladies!

No worries girl I made that mistake for a long time then realized my calorie count was WAY off because I wasn't weighing some stuff and just using some of those generic entries that are totally wrong when you actually go back and check them.