Anybody know of a calculator that works back from calories to weight/volume?

MelanieCN77

Like, you can say blueberries 100 calories and you can access what weight of the food that is?

RelCanonical

This website might be helpful: https://www.nutritionix.com/food/blueberries/100-g

Just increase grams until you get to 100 calories.

AnnPT77

MelanieCN77 wrote: »

Like, you can say blueberries 100 calories and you can access what weight of the food that is?

I just use the calculator on my phone, tablet, or laptop.

Look up "Blueberries - raw": 100g, 57 calories. (Leave that entry open on my phone usually, but jump to the calculator for next step).

(100 calories desired / 57 calories per hundred grams) = 1.754...

So I want 1.75 times the 100g serving, which would be (1.75 x 100g) = 175g

That last step is trivial with the 100g thing, but the same basic approach works fine with everything (ounces, or whatever).

YMMV, but I wouldn't find a reverse lookup any quicker.

allmannerofthings

RelCanonical wrote: »

This website might be helpful: https://www.nutritionix.com/food/blueberries/100-g

Just increase grams until you get to 100 calories.

That is cool!

puffbrat

I just add the appropriate entry to my diary and adjust the servings until I get close to the number I want.

MelanieCN77

The nutrionix one is neat, thanks! Close as I'll get I think.

It's not that I'm unable to do the math, but have found a small need for it that would be nice to have streamlined.