Weighing an orange
ChickenKillerPuppy
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I prefer to cut my oranges into eights and then eat the flesh out of the peel (rather than peel and eat the sections). For folks who do this, how do you weigh the orange? Before and after and subtract peel? Just count the peel? Does the USDA calorie count omit the peel?
I am sick and craving oranges even though I haven’t had one since being on MFP.
I am sick and craving oranges even though I haven’t had one since being on MFP.
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I do before and after for a lot of things.. This would be one of those.4
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I did before and after for a while, then I just started being able to estimate...after 20 oranges...It is the edible part that needs to be accounted for. I figure it's usually 200-250g per orange for Navels, 70g for Satsumas/mandarins. Oranges are pretty low-cal so 20 calories one way or the other doesn't matter to me anymore and I just guesstimate. Those peels are heavy on the larger fruits!5
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I hate the white pith. I cut the peel off and section it. Weigh the flesh that I eat.
In your case, weigh whole orange first, then the peel, after you finish it.
Hope you feel better.1 -
I weigh the whole orange.
I also like orange smiles.1 -
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ChickenKillerPuppy wrote: »I prefer to cut my oranges into eights and then eat the flesh out of the peel (rather than peel and eat the sections). For folks who do this, how do you weigh the orange? Before and after and subtract peel? Just count the peel? Does the USDA calorie count omit the peel?
I am sick and craving oranges even though I haven’t had one since being on MFP.
USDA counts are for edible portions only.3 -
kshama2001 wrote: »
Yes . It is easier. I usually bring oranges to work in my lunchbox measuring the ring separately is a hassle and the small amount of variation is not something I worry about.
Also I am not convinced that the measurements are all for peeled oranges.2 -
I weighed the peel alone a few times to get a general sense of the weight, and now I just weigh the whole orange including peel and subtract a rounded guesstimate for the peel weight.3
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missysippy930 wrote: »I hate the white pith. I cut the peel off and section it. Weigh the flesh that I eat.
In your case, weigh whole orange first, then the peel, after you finish it.
Hope you feel better.
Heh. I like the pith, so I peel the orange, gnaw much of the the pith off the peel, and eat the orange segments.
But weighing the whole orange before, then weighing the waste after, still works.
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For all my fruits, I weigh them whole, even if I don't eat the peel/core/seeds/etc, just because for most things, the weight is not a huge deal, and I consider it a convenience fee for the fruit being portable.
If it's something like pomegranates, where I'm going to break them down before I leave the house anyway, I'll weigh the arils.2 -
I eat the peel sometimes too with the flesh. Weird, ah? I like the taste, also slice a little in my salads on occasion. OP, as others said, for precision weigh before and after.0
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kshama2001 wrote: »
Yes . It is easier. I usually bring oranges to work in my lunchbox measuring the ring separately is a hassle and the small amount of variation is not something I worry about.
Also I am not convinced that the measurements are all for peeled oranges.
If you're using an entry that MFP pulled from the USDA database, then it only includes the peel if so specified, ex: "Oranges, raw, with peel."7 -
Definitely you can find nutritional info that includes the peel. When I looked for info on clementines, it specified "with peel".
Sometimes I just do as has been suggested above, just experiment with before and after weights until you get a way to adjust the weight of the whole thing to enter the average edible parts in your tracker. I've done this with nuts and peanuts in the shell, for example.0 -
Presumably logging "with peel" would be misleading too, unless you were eating the peels (orange peels I would imagine have a good bit of fiber).
I'm not too strict about it, though. If eating it at home I prefer to peel my clementine or orange first and to chop up apples or pears, so I weigh it without. If eating it at work I use an educated guess based on past experience and realize the difference won't be that great anyway.1 -
Presumably logging "with peel" would be misleading too, unless you were eating the peels (orange peels I would imagine have a good bit of fiber).
I'm not too strict about it, though. If eating it at home I prefer to peel my clementine or orange first and to chop up apples or pears, so I weigh it without. If eating it at work I use an educated guess based on past experience and realize the difference won't be that great anyway.
For all foods, the only relevant portion is what you're eating -- so even if the nutritional information includes the peel you wouldn't log that weight unless you were eating it. At least that's how I've always thought of it.3 -
janejellyroll wrote: »Presumably logging "with peel" would be misleading too, unless you were eating the peels (orange peels I would imagine have a good bit of fiber).
I'm not too strict about it, though. If eating it at home I prefer to peel my clementine or orange first and to chop up apples or pears, so I weigh it without. If eating it at work I use an educated guess based on past experience and realize the difference won't be that great anyway.
For all foods, the only relevant portion is what you're eating -- so even if the nutritional information includes the peel you wouldn't log that weight unless you were eating it. At least that's how I've always thought of it.
Hmm. My point is not about calories, but nutrition -- an entry for orange with peel, 100 g, will have more fiber than that orange once you peel it (and presumably you will also eat a few less cals, but I doubt orange peel is that caloric).
That's because I think if the nutritional information says "with peel" it means it's including the peel in the nutrition. That's the case with foods where the peel is eaten (like potatoes, raw, with skin). For example, if you eat the potato peeled but choose an entry with the skin, you are okay with cals, but are not getting all the nutrition the entry claims.
There seems to be a separate entry for orange peel only, so that suggests it's considered edible (and that one could figure it out).
I think it would be a minor difference anyway (and irrelevant if cals are the only concern). I'm just curious now.3 -
janejellyroll wrote: »Presumably logging "with peel" would be misleading too, unless you were eating the peels (orange peels I would imagine have a good bit of fiber).
I'm not too strict about it, though. If eating it at home I prefer to peel my clementine or orange first and to chop up apples or pears, so I weigh it without. If eating it at work I use an educated guess based on past experience and realize the difference won't be that great anyway.
For all foods, the only relevant portion is what you're eating -- so even if the nutritional information includes the peel you wouldn't log that weight unless you were eating it. At least that's how I've always thought of it.
Hmm. My point is not about calories, but nutrition -- an entry for orange with peel, 100 g, will have more fiber than that orange once you peel it (and presumably you will also eat a few less cals, but I doubt orange peel is that caloric).
That's because I think if the nutritional information says "with peel" it means it's including the peel in the nutrition. That's the case with foods where the peel is eaten (like potatoes, raw, with skin). For example, if you eat the potato peeled but choose an entry with the skin, you are okay with cals, but are not getting all the nutrition the entry claims.
There seems to be a separate entry for orange peel only, so that suggests it's considered edible (and that one could figure it out).
I think it would be a minor difference anyway (and irrelevant if cals are the only concern). I'm just curious now.
Oops, I missed that. Yes, I agree.3 -
Orange peel is delicious (in chocolate, of course) and has quite a bit of fiber.0
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I weigh them whole and then log 80% of the weight.... seems close enough!0
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what I would do (but I admit this is the lazy version) is pick an average size orange, weigh it peeled at home (even if you dont usually peel it before eating, this is just an experiment) - and then log each orange you eat from then on as that amount.
Sure,some will be bit more, some will be bit less - but the difference is not much and falls into irelevant margin of error anyway.
If you happen to eat an orange obviously much bigger than average just log it as 1 and 1/2 your usual one
or vice versa if much smaller5
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