Question About Logging Food - Fried Egg

AlchemistBrew

Hi all! I’m new to tracking here and have a question about tracking. I made a fried egg and logged the egg and tsp of butter I used. But then I saw there is a fried egg entry. Is it safe to assume that is counting more than just the egg? How do I know if oil or butter is included and how much? Thanks-B

cmriverside

You don't know, really. I mean, you can look at the fat and see how much fat is in a regular egg, and then see if the fat is the same in the "fried egg."

All the foods are entered by other users. Log it as individual ingredients, using your food scale.

sollyn23l2

cmriverside wrote: »

You don't know, really. I mean, you can look at the fat and see how much fat is in a regular egg, and then see if the fat is the same in the "fried egg."

All the foods are entered by other users. Log it as individual ingredients, using your food scale.

I look at the calories. A regular egg is 75 calories, so if it's more than that they're probably including butter or oil. But most don't.

cmriverside

sollyn, yeah.

I mean, a tsp of butter is about 25-30 calories and what, 2-3 g fat? For that matter, a tsp of butter is waaay more than I would use for frying an egg. Maybe 1g, tops.

For that matter, some eggs may have 2g of fat in their yolk and some may have more like 5g - so it's not like there is an exact calorie nor fat number. I use mostly egg whites combined with one whole egg when I make egg dishes, but I can see with my eye which eggs have noticeably larger yolks!

sollyn23l2

cmriverside wrote: »

sollyn, yeah.

I mean, a tsp of butter is about 25-30 calories and what, 2-3 g fat? For that matter, a tsp of butter is waaay more than I would use for frying an egg. Maybe 1g, tops.

For that matter, some eggs may have 2g of fat in their yolk and some may have more like 5g - so it's not like there is an exact calorie nor fat number. I use mostly egg whites combined with one whole egg when I make egg dishes, but I can see with my eye which eggs have noticeably larger yolks!

For sure, and even then, not all the butter ends up on the egg.

Lietchi

I steer clear of generic entries like '1 fried egg', '1 peanut butter sandwich',...
I don't know what the precise ingredients are, nor their precise quantities, so the margin of error is huge.

Weighing and logging individual foods is going to be a lot more accurate.

Retroguy2000

Never assume anything about the database entries.

As others said, log your own components. You can save that as a "meal" to make it easier to add to a future day. Or, if you log your own ingredients and conclude it's about X calories and Y of this or that macro (whichever you are more focused on), and you find a database entry that's about the same, you could use that one. But don't assume in advance anything in the database is correct.