Skinny pop popcorn

wilson10102018

joyanna2016 wrote: »

Orville's smart pop snack size bag is 100 calories and the best - just right!

18 calories per cup.

lemurcat2

wilson10102018 wrote: »

Skinnypop has 150 calories per ounce. Popped at home airpop, and stove top without oil has 85 calories per ounce.

No.

USDA: snacks, popcorn, airpopped, 1 oz, 110 cal; 1 cup (8 g), 31 cal.

Also:

USDA: snacks, popcorn, oil-prepared, unsalted, 1 cup, 40 cal.

365 brand kernels: 36 g unpopped (makes about 4 cups popped), 140 cal. That works out to over 30 g per cup (popcorn never works out perfectly from the kernel measure).

SkinnyPop (from the package): 1 cup, 30 cal.

lemurcat2

Interesting comparison:

OR kernels are 3 tbsp (40 g), unpopped, 120 cal, but doesn't give an estimate for 1 cup popped (or any amount popped).
365 kernels are 3 tbsp (36 g), unpopped, 140 cal.
All Natural (from Target) are 2 tbsp (30 g), unpopped, 110 cal.

So these end up being:

OR=300 cal/100 g
365=389 cal/100 g
All Natural=367 cal/100 g (likely a rounding error due to 2 tbsp vs 3)
USDA popcorn, airpopped=387 cal/100 g

The OR looks like the outlier there, so the question is why. It looks to me like OR is claiming their popcorn is lower cal and pops up "lighter and fluffier" than ordinary popcorn, so we certainly are not talking about some distinction between air-popped or stove-popped vs microwave (see the example of the OR smart pop microwave popcorn), but OR vs. other brands. I'd be interested in the explanation for the numbers above, as if true I never knew it to be and would like to do a taste test (and also a cups/kernels test).

lemurcat2

wilson10102018 wrote: »

joyanna2016 wrote: »

Orville's smart pop snack size bag is 100 calories and the best - just right!

18 calories per cup.

Zero to do with your claims about generic stove-popped popcorn (couldn't tell from your response if you realized that).

wilson10102018

I don't know why this is soo hard for some of you.

A cup is a measurement of volume. It has nothing to do with nutrition or measuring calories. 40g of popped kernals has the same caloric value whether they are 6mm diameters or 12mm diameter popped kernals.But, one will measure in cups about twice as much as the other.

Get it? Same nutrition, same weight, two times the volume.

What I did above was attempt to convert the silliness about cups to actual nutrition.

I'll try to say it again. 40g of Orville cooked on the stove top without oil has 120 calories per the package. And, when I weigh it cooked it is still 38g - close enough.

Skinnypop microwave has 173 calories for 40g. Skinnypop popped in the bag has 214 calories per 40g per the package.

You all really ought to stop thinking and researching in cups and tablespoons. Volume measurements have their place, just not here.

lemurcat2

No, you've changed your claim. You said "Home made on the stove top with Pam is better and 38g has 120 calories." When I pointed out the numbers for the Skinny Pop microwave brand were the same as air-popped kernels, according to the USDA, and then listed the numbers, you (way later, after I had already pointed it out and someone else pointed out that it was true for OR smart pop microwave brand) changed the claim to Orville Redenbacher kernels are lower cal.

OR kernels (popped) might be lower cal than other brands -- I'd like to know why, especially if they taste the same -- as I don't think this is well known, but it has absolutely NOTHING to do with "homemade on the stove top" vs. microwave. The microwave popcorn being discussed originally in this thread seems to be the same as non-OR kernels (including general USDA info and 2 brands of kernels I gave information for). And (as another posted pointed out, again) the OR lower cals clearly do apply to the numbers they provide for at least one microwave brand.

Oh, and you seem to be attributing the various tbsp measurements (30 g, 36 g, whatever) to POPPED kernels and clearly those are for unpopped -- the fact that some popcorn nutrition information relates to unpopped kernels and their weight and volume (in tbsp) and some to popped kernels and their weight and volume (in cups) is exactly why popcorn nutrition consistently confuses people.

MaltedTea

😬 Whether cup for cup or gram for gram, the caloric impact of plain, unfancified popcorn is likely not worth all these calculations compared to what is generally snacked on, especially in Western countries.

But if y'all are going in for the sake of demonstrating ways to calculate, in general, have at it. I just pictured the OP swearing off popcorn for life based on the thread thus far 🤣😭

fwiw: for my mental health and eating patterns, I try keeping calculations super simple as well as consistent (and I've yet to use a food scale which is blasphemy, I know)

lx1x

corinasue1143

But do you weigh what’s left over, unpopped kernels, etc. and subtract it? How much of what is left is oil?

wilson10102018

corinasue1143 wrote: »

But do you weigh what’s left over, unpopped kernels, etc. and subtract it? How much of what is left is oil?

corinasue1143 wrote: »

But do you weigh what’s left over, unpopped kernels, etc. and subtract it? How much of what is left is oil?

What is your point? If I had kernels left over I would weigh them but I don't and I don't use any oil.

wilson10102018

senalay788 wrote: »

wilson10102018 wrote: »

corinasue1143 wrote: »

But do you weigh what’s left over, unpopped kernels, etc. and subtract it? How much of what is left is oil?

corinasue1143 wrote: »

But do you weigh what’s left over, unpopped kernels, etc. and subtract it? How much of what is left is oil?

What is your point? If I had kernels left over I would weigh them but I don't and I don't use any oil.

Ohhh look. We agree

We should try to expand on that.