Calories in potatoes after being peeled

apollox1

Say 100g of uncooked, unpeeled potatoes is 75 calories. Would weighing the potatoes aftering being peeled and using the 100g/75cals info be an accurate enough calculation?

Tacklewasher

apollox1 wrote: »

Say 100g of uncooked, unpeeled potatoes is 75 calories. Would weighing the potatoes aftering being peeled and using the 100g/75cals info be an accurate enough calculation?

It's what I do. I don't know if the peels are more or less calorie dense than the rest, but the difference is likely not meaningful.

abirdintherain

I'm pretty sure there's an option for the potato without the peel, but not positive. I almost always eat the peel when I fix potatoes. Like the above response said, there's probably not too much difference, and it's sometimes nice to have a few extra calories to spare built in if there's a mistake somewhere else.

lemurcat12

apollox1 wrote: »

Say 100g of uncooked, unpeeled potatoes is 75 calories. Would weighing the potatoes aftering being peeled and using the 100g/75cals info be an accurate enough calculation?

For calories, sure.

For micronutrients/fiber, not really, but if you aren't focusing on tracking those, not an issue.

I found a USDA entry for a potato, baked, without skin, but not for potato raw, no skin (the entry you use should be cooked or uncooked based on how it is when you weigh it, not how you eat it).

lynn_glenmont

Use these search strings, depending on how you're cooking it, and weigh it after it's cooked. Compare MFP entry to the USDA entries linked below. If you can't find a matching MFP entry, correct or create as appropriate (but please, if you don't know how the raw dara for vitamins A and C and for iron and calcium correlate to percentages, don't muck up a good entry by incorrectly "correcting it").

Potatoes, baked, flesh, without salt
Potatoes, boiled, cooked in skin, flesh, without salt
Potatoes, boiled, cooked in skin, flesh, with salt
Potatoes, boiled, cooked without skin, flesh, without salt
Potatoes, boiled, cooked without skin, flesh, with salt


With and without salt refers to whether you added it to the cooking water.

lorrpb

So there is a difference of 1 calorie per 100g with vs without the skin.

callsitlikeiseeit

the skin makes a minimal difference calorie wise and is where all the nutrients are. why would you remove it?

livingleanlivingclean

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

the skin makes a minimal difference calorie wise and is where all the nutrients are. why would you remove it?

Because skin in mash potato is minging. You can leave the skins on my chips though...

crabbybrianna

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

the skin makes a minimal difference calorie wise and is where all the nutrients are. why would you remove it?

I always remove the skins. Potato skins taste like dirty paper to me, I just don’t like them.

I use the “without skin” entry.