Logging scrambled egg

Spitspot81

A diary entry of scrambled egg logs 91 calories for one egg. is that just purely the egg or do you make another entry if you add milk/butter?

It just always surprises me that an egg scrambled is 91 calories and yet an egg hard boiled is approx 35 calories.

diannethegeek

are you sure you're choosing a correct entry out of the database? There are a lot of user-entered entries that aren't accurate.

One egg should be about 70-74 calories. You would log the egg and then any milk/butter you add separately. It sounds like the entry you're using already accounts for some milk or butter but then doesn't describe how much. I'd switch to a different entry if it were me.

AnvilHead

Many database entries are user sourced and not accurate. They may or may not have included the oil/butter/whatever they used to cook it in, and you don't know what size egg they used. And no hard-boiled egg is 35 calories, unless they're using pigeon eggs or something. A large egg is around 70 calories.

Search "egg, large, USDA" (or whatever size egg you're using), and use that entry. Add in whatever milk, butter, etc. you use to cook it.

kami3006

If it's a generic entry then there is no way to know if the person added anything. Add "usda" to your search and that should just pull up the egg. Any other ingredients you add should be a separate entry or you can create a "food" that contains it all in one listing.

OHFlamingo

A large hard-cooked egg (50 grams) has 78 calories, not 35! I would add the calories from any milk or cooking fat used when scrambling an egg. I use a non-stick pan and do not use any cooking fat. I try to save calories wherever and whenever I can!

VUA21

The 35 calorie entry for a hard boiled egg is wrong. The average commercial "large" egg is 70-80 calories (eggs are hard to be exact due to varience of egg yolk size and overall egg size). I use 80 calories for my eggs as that will be the high end of average and negates any calories in the pepper I tend to cover my eggs in.

If you use milk for a scrambled egg, add both the calories for the eggs and the milk.

Spitspot81

Thanks all...I guess little errors like this can add up to a lot of extra calories at the end of the day

Lounmoun

If you cooked it I would enter it as a recipe with whatever you added to it. Use the recipe builder.
Otherwise choose a database entry for a plain egg, and log milk, butter/oil, etc. A whole plain egg should be 70 some calories.

okiewoman510

The boiled egg entry sounds like just the egg white.

malibu927

Log the egg (weigh it if you choose to, some don't because it has little variance). Log what you put in it (I use milk in mine) and if you use butter/oil in the pan.

A large egg is about 70 calories, FYI.

iotterbeinbed

I enter eggs separate from the olive oil and greek yogurt i use to make them. I'm a bit paranoid about missing calories. Had large eggs tonight and they were each 70 calories.

Noreenmarie1234

Never search "scrambled egg" just log 1 egg and whatever you add to it. Just like you don't google "chicken sandwich" if you make yourself a chicken sandwich. You have to log every part of it.