Help with grams/ml in ice cream?
no1wf
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Hopefully I don't make this any more confusing than I need to!
My weight loss has slowed down so I'm double checking my foods.
My favourite ice cream says on the nutrition table that 100ml is 74cal. On the lid it says the same thing again, but underneath it also says 100g is 173cal.
When I weigh out 100ml of ice cream, then change the unit on the scale to gram it's still 100g. I do the same and take the ice cream out then change the unit and it's still the same.
So if 100ml of ice cream weighs the same as 100g of ice cream, am I eating 74calories or 173calories?
My weight loss has slowed down so I'm double checking my foods.
My favourite ice cream says on the nutrition table that 100ml is 74cal. On the lid it says the same thing again, but underneath it also says 100g is 173cal.
When I weigh out 100ml of ice cream, then change the unit on the scale to gram it's still 100g. I do the same and take the ice cream out then change the unit and it's still the same.
So if 100ml of ice cream weighs the same as 100g of ice cream, am I eating 74calories or 173calories?
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A scale cannot measure ml, the 'conversion' it offers is bogus. Most, if not all, ice-creams will weigh less than 100gr per 100ml.
If you've been weighing your ice-cream, you should log those 100gr as 173 calories. Sorry 😟4 -
A scale cannot measure ml, the 'conversion' it offers is bogus. Most, if not all, ice-creams will weigh less than 100gr per 100ml.
If you've been weighing your ice-cream, you should log those 100gr as 173 calories. Sorry 😟
Ah man, that's a shame. Though to be fair I've been eating the ice cream with chocolate sauce for a long time and still lost weight so it's not all bad!
So if I'm looking for a new ice cream I should go by the calories per gram?
I've seen ice creams that only have calories per ml on it though, interesting.
How would one go about weighing ice cream in ml then? Even when I set the scale to ml first then put ice cream on it I get the same physical amount of ice cream.0 -
When only kcal per ml are mentioned, I would try to estimate a portion of the container? If you're the only person eating from the container, it will even out in the end (if you eat the container in 5 portions, log 1/5 of the total volume of the container).
If you're sharing the container, it gets more tricky... I would weigh the contents of the container and see how that equates to the total ml of the ice-cream and calculate a ratio based on that.0 -
When only kcal per ml are mentioned, I would try to estimate a portion of the container? If you're the only person eating from the container, it will even out in the end (if you eat the container in 5 portions, log 1/5 of the total volume of the container).
If you're sharing the container, it gets more tricky... I would weigh the contents of the container and see how that equates to the total ml of the ice-cream and calculate a ratio based on that.
It's only me eating it but I think it sounds best if I choose one that has grams and avoid it if it doesn't. I could stand there in the shop working it out, if it ended up being less calories then I could be swayed but I'd rather log it accurately and be sure.0 -
Milliliters are a volume measurement, while grams is a weight measurement. There are some things that match up pretty close, like water, most milks, and sauces. But, I would go by weight with this one0
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Wow, I would buy this ice cream immediately! I can only find types here that list the calories in ml, which is *kitten* if you want to know the calories precisely without thawing it a bit and using a spoon.
Yeah, I don't know why scales offer a ml option. It only works for water at room temperature and nothing else. Instead of telling this one person who needs it that 100ml are 100gr for this water, it confuses a lot of others, or make them press a unit button one more time if you accidentally hit it and want to get back to grams
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When only kcal per ml are mentioned, I would try to estimate a portion of the container? If you're the only person eating from the container, it will even out in the end (if you eat the container in 5 portions, log 1/5 of the total volume of the container).
If you're sharing the container, it gets more tricky... I would weigh the contents of the container and see how that equates to the total ml of the ice-cream and calculate a ratio based on that.
It's only me eating it but I think it sounds best if I choose one that has grams and avoid it if it doesn't. I could stand there in the shop working it out, if it ended up being less calories then I could be swayed but I'd rather log it accurately and be sure.
Well, you'll never be able to tell in the shop how many kcal per gram if it only states kcal per 100ml on the label. So you'd have to experiment. In your place I would weigh the entire container beforehand, eat the contents (in a chosen number of sittings, logging the entire contents in ml spread over those sittings), weigh the empty container and calculate how many ml per gram for future reference. That would be as accurate, just a bit more work the first time to figure it out.
Although I understand the tendency to avoid certain situations that complicate logging, I wouldn't let that stop me from discovering nice ice-cream if it tempted me, especially if the ice-cream options with kcal per 100gr are limited. But I've been logging my food for a while now, I have a lot of regular foods in my frequent foods list, I don't mind the odd effort to try out new foods more complicated to figure out how to log, if they tempt me (and I have a weak spot for ice-cream 🙂)0 -
Wow, I would buy this ice cream immediately! I can only find types here that list the calories in ml, which is *kitten* if you want to know the calories precisely without thawing it a bit and using a spoon.
And that wouldn't even necessarily be accurate, sometimes ice-cream is aerated (more volume for the same weight) and I'm guessing that air would escape if the ice-cream melted 😁1 -
Wow, I would buy this ice cream immediately! I can only find types here that list the calories in ml, which is *kitten* if you want to know the calories precisely without thawing it a bit and using a spoon.
And that wouldn't even necessarily be accurate, sometimes ice-cream is aerated (more volume for the same weight) and I'm guessing that air would escape if the ice-cream melted 😁
Yeah, I know. Those 'low cal' ice cream for example. And strictly speaking fluid fluids tend to inhabit a bigger space than frozen ones. So.. it's all a bit kitten 0 -
So it turns out the 268cal I thought I was having was more like 417cal haha nevermind, as I said I was still losing so it was working out overall somehow!
I've been scouring the websites of my nearby supermarkets and found an ice cream that's 146cal for 100g so that'll be my replacement I think. I'll just have to adjust how much I have to fit in with the yummy chocolate sauce 0 -
Calorie counting really is a particular way to lose weight, most 'normal' people would roll their eyes at what we do 😁 but I do enjoy finding lower calorie alternatives for higher calorie snacks, especially when they taste as good!0
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Agree! Thankfully I'm a creature of habit and have no problem and actually enjoy eating the same things over again, but I keep my eyes open when shopping and if I see something new I'll check if it is higher/lower/the same as my current choice to determine if I'll buy it or not
Last week I found little popcorn packets that will probably replace my rice cake snacks, and burgers that are only about 10cal more than the ones I make myself but they're soooo nice!0 -
Another option might be to contact the manufacturer to see if they can give you a conversion to grams particularly if you explain why you are interested. Unfortunately the overrun (the air whipped into ice cream) is not the same for all brands and can vary a lot. And even scooping the ice cream out can collapse the air making a volume measurement tricky.0
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