Fruit Pizza Nutritional Info

Packergal27

My friend brought fruit pizza when she came over for New Year's Eve. It had the sugar cookie crust, and the cream cheese, but I don't know if the cream cheese was mixed with anything. I have seen several different versions of the recipe. Anyway, here is my dilemma: She only had sliced fresh strawberries on top, no other fruit. If I find a recipe with the nutritional stats, it will be with all of the fruit. How do I count it for just the strawberries?

janejellyroll

Put the recipe in the recipe builder and adjust it so that the only fruit is strawberries?

Log the standard recipe and accept that a bit of variation is inherent to calorie counting and that, in the overall scope of things, logging strawberries instead of mixed fruit is no big deal?

apullum

I'd personally go for option 2 that @janejellyroll mentioned. Your calorie count for this is not going to be exactly right anyway, since you don't know which recipe she used (nor did you have a way of knowing precisely how big your portion was, I assume), and the difference between strawberries and mixed fruit would not be huge.

DaintyWhisper

I make a fruit tart recipe that's similar. It has a shortbread crust, a cream cheese and whipping cream filling, and I usually top it with various types of berries. The berries themselves account for 3% of the total calories. (100 calories out of 3,000) So, I don't think you have to be worried about that specifically. The calories in an 8th of my recipe is 377 calories. About this size: http://d3cizcpymoenau.cloudfront.net/images/35476/SFS_fresh_fruit_tart-44.jpg
If I were you, I'd just ballpark it somewhere between 300-400 and don't stress too hard about it.

ritzvin

Packergal27 wrote: »

My friend brought fruit pizza when she came over for New Year's Eve. It had the sugar cookie crust, and the cream cheese, but I don't know if the cream cheese was mixed with anything. I have seen several different versions of the recipe. Anyway, here is my dilemma: She only had sliced fresh strawberries on top, no other fruit. If I find a recipe with the nutritional stats, it will be with all of the fruit. How do I count it for just the strawberries?

If it is a lack of fruit on top, then estimate won't be thrown off by much (the fruit is going to be the absolute tiniest % of the calories in that thing). If it's a question of the cream cheese not being diluted by a relatively large volume of fruit, then it might be more of a problem. The big variation in calories will be from any miniscule changes in volume of all the high fat cream cheese and cookie crust.