Portion question

wagnerchristina99

So...I have a simple question which hopefully I’m not laughed at for asking...
But if a portion size of banana bread is 150 calories for 1/12 of the whole loaf, how many calories would it be for 1/16 of the loaf? I didn’t have a loaf pan so I used what I had and cut it into 16 slices and as is evident, math is not my strong suit.

kimny72

If 1/12th is 150 calories, that means the whole loaf is 150x12=1800.

So 1/16th of 1800 calories is 112.5 calories.

Sometimes it's easier to back into it

apullum

The most accurate way to track calories of something you baked yourself would be to enter the ingredients by weight in the recipe builder. Then, weigh the finished food and use the weight in grams as the number of servings the recipe makes. Now you know how many calories are in a gram of that food. When you get your slice of cake, weigh it and enter that weight as the number of "servings" you ate.

For example, if the whole loaf was 1000 grams, then you would enter 1000 as the number of servings in the recipe builder. If you ate a 200 gram slice, you would log 200 servings of that recipe.