Artichoke calories

vivalavida82

It’s all in the title.
How do you count calories for an artichoke when you eat it steamed? There’s no good way to weigh it is there?

L1zardQueen

100 calories and that maybe an overestimated.

AnnPT77

Not many calories, but if you wanna:

- Weigh the raw artichoke in ready-to-cook state
- Cook
- Weigh the cooked artichoke
- Eat the yummy parts
- Weigh the refuse (if you cooked, removed choke, then ate, save the choke to weigh with refuse).
- Subtract weight of refuse from cooked weight to calculate eaten cooked weight
- Divide cooked eaten weight by total cooked weight to get useful multiplier
- Multiply useful multiplier by total raw weight to get raw-equivalent eaten

Use a good "artichoke, raw" database entry to log the raw-equivalent eaten quantity, or a valid "artichoke, cooked, (accurate cooking method)" database entry to log eaten cooked weight.

If you log raw weight, don't forget to log oil or such things used in cooking. Personally, I usually steam my artichokes, so nothing to add (except the dip).

Is this worth it? I don't know. It's not many calories, and there oughta be exercise calories for plucking leaves, pulling through teeth, etc. But I'm a data geek, so I weigh mine, more or less as described.