Canned tuna in oil

KorvapuustiPossu

This might be a silly question... I usually buy canned tuna in water, however this is the first time since I started logging (almost 100 days, yay! ) that I plan to use tuna in oil and I have no idea how to log it! Can says it has 185/140 g, so I assume they mean drained it's 140 g. Nutritional info says 177 kcal for 100 g. Is that including oil or drained? I plan to drain most of oil out and keep a little bit since I'm going to cook it on that bit of oil. How would you log it?

StealthHealth

Imperfect but I would:

Drain tuna as much as possible and use nutritional info on the can (for drained) then log 1.5 times the amount of oil I use - the additional 0.5 to cover any residual oil that I didn't get out when draining.

KorvapuustiPossu

Hmm but 177 for 100 g already accounts for some oil obviously... since tuna in water has about 115 kcal for 100 g?

StealthHealth

I've just looked up the tuna that I usually buy and the drained cals/macros for packed in spring water version is less fat and cals than the packed in S/flower oil. So, I would say that canned tuna cals and macro values are based upon the fact that you can't drain all the oil out of the can. The difference is about 50 cals by the way.

This being the case you are probably OK not to do the 1.5 thing I mentioned above.

KorvapuustiPossu

I have found some page that says drained 6.5 oz which is 185 g I guess has about 315 kcal... But if 177 is for drained...and that is 140g in my tuna that would be about 248 kcal. Now the question is also what do they consider drained... do I need to use paper to drain it or just pour it out? I'm officially never buying canned tuna in oil again

snowflake954

I always use tuna packed in olive oil (Italy). When I look up the calorie count it says tuna-drained. I squeeze out as much oil as I can and use the calories they give me. I'm sure it's imperfect--but everything is.

KorvapuustiPossu

So you are saying I should drain the hell out of it... use 248 kcal for tuna (140 grams) and use outside source of cooking oil and count that separately?

StealthHealth

KorvapuustiPossu wrote: »

So you are saying I should drain the hell out of it... use 248 kcal for tuna (140 grams) and use outside source of cooking oil and count that separately?

I'd

1. Drain the hell out of it and retain that drained oil.
2. Use the drained cals/macros from the tin for the tuna content of the meal
3. Measure and use whatever of the drained liquid (mainly oil) in the meal and log that as sunflower oil.

KorvapuustiPossu

Ok, thanks, I'll do that I'd rather overestimate a bit then underestimate. However don't think it will make much difference since I'm pretty good with calories for today... I'll end up eating peanuts to get to my goal