Weighing food with various densities?

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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    luciroo wrote: »
    My food scale has a ml mode

    Which is a total utter joke, as it's been stated on this thread.

    OP, the typically serving size for jam is 20g.
  • crabbybrianna
    crabbybrianna Posts: 344 Member
    luciroo wrote: »
    My food scale has a ml mode

    So does mine, but it doesn’t actually weigh ml because ml are not a measurement of weight. It weighs grams. That setting can only be used for liquids like water.
  • me0231
    me0231 Posts: 218 Member
    I just check the database for a gram entry of a similar item. If it's reasonably close I'll do 1ml=1g, if it's off by a lot I use the other database entry (verified and checked that it's accurate). I'm not going nuts over a few calories possibly being off as my scale is only so accurate to each gram. Having said that if I'm not losing or maintaining as expected that's one of the first areas I tighten up when looking at my logging.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,242 Member
    edited March 2018
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    I have one.
    Breyers Maple Nutty twist ice cream.

    All I can find is this.
    http://www.breyers.ca/product/detail/139644/maple-nutty-twist

    I had to do this for cool whip.

    Buy the dang thing.

    Empty the whole container into another one and weight the thing before eating any.

    You now have the approximate grams for the ml in the package (because we are unsure whether the manufacturer over or under-fills the pack).

    Repeat 2-3 times to make sure they are consistent... and because tasty :wink:

    (hint: name brand cool whip was consistent enough across all three fat levels) :blush:
  • Jeniccm
    Jeniccm Posts: 44 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    I have one.
    Breyers Maple Nutty twist ice cream.

    All I can find is this.
    http://www.breyers.ca/product/detail/139644/maple-nutty-twist

    I had to do this for cool whip.

    Buy the dang thing.

    Empty the whole container into another one and weight the thing before eating any.

    You now have the approximate grams for the ml in the package (because we are unsure whether the manufacturer over or under-fills the pack).

    Repeat 2-3 times to make sure they are consistent... and because tasty :wink:

    (hint: name brand cool whip was consistent enough across all three fat levels) :blush:

    This thread made me think of the cool whip jay that I have in the fridge! I’ve been weighing in grams. Is it a huge difference?

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,242 Member
    edited March 2018
    Jeniccm wrote: »
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    I have one.
    Breyers Maple Nutty twist ice cream.

    All I can find is this.
    http://www.breyers.ca/product/detail/139644/maple-nutty-twist

    I had to do this for cool whip.

    Buy the dang thing.

    Empty the whole container into another one and weight the thing before eating any.

    You now have the approximate grams for the ml in the package (because we are unsure whether the manufacturer over or under-fills the pack).

    Repeat 2-3 times to make sure they are consistent... and because tasty :wink:

    (hint: name brand cool whip was consistent enough across all three fat levels) :blush:

    This thread made me think of the cool whip jay that I have in the fridge! I’ve been weighing in grams. Is it a huge difference?

    Each tablespoon weights approximately 4.5g.

    So a 3 tablespoon "portion" comes to about 13.5g

    The 1L (1000ml) containers are about 300g in weight
  • daniip_la
    daniip_la Posts: 678 Member
    edited March 2018
    I use a graduated cylinder to find the density of the mL-only items that i use the most. If you want to be ridiculously accurate about your calories, that’s one of the best ways.

    But looking up the information online is a much easier method, and definitely a more sane one.

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