Removing Fat

mere0001
mere0001 Posts: 2 Member
edited June 18 in Food and Nutrition
Often when cooking the fat comes to the top, I've been scooping this out, is there a way to enter this in to show that I've removed the fat from products? Some items are quite high in fat content, but with the fat removed surely that reduced the fat grams? I have a scale so I can measure what i've removed.

EG: mine, salami, curries, etc.

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  • Hobartlemagne
    Hobartlemagne Posts: 565 Member
    You could measure in tablespoons.
    You mentioned curries- I've found in my own cooking of Indian food that most recipes can have the oil amounts cut in half and still turn out fine.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,203 Member
    I've sometimes poured off the fat, weighed what I poured off, and subtracted those fat calories. Gotta be careful, though, if the pour-off includes some water/broth.
  • mere0001
    mere0001 Posts: 2 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    I've sometimes poured off the fat, weighed what I poured off, and subtracted those fat calories. Gotta be careful, though, if the pour-off includes some water/broth.

    how do you subtract those calories though?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,203 Member
    mere0001 wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    I've sometimes poured off the fat, weighed what I poured off, and subtracted those fat calories. Gotta be careful, though, if the pour-off includes some water/broth.

    how do you subtract those calories though?

    If I'm frying something, I've weighed the thing(s) I'm frying, and weighed the oil. I usually write the weights on something like a junk mail envelope, log it online after.

    In some cases, I'd just reduce the amount of oil I logged online to compensate for the poured off fat. I could reduce some other logged thing in that meal instead if I didn't care about that thing's nutrient values.

    Other options would be to edit fats in another part of the day; I think it used to be possible to record negative calorie entries in web browser MFP but I haven't tried that lately; recording a fake exercise for that number of calories if I wasn't concerned about precise exercise totals; or not minus out the poured off fat in any way but take it as a small extra unrecorded bonus to deficit or calorie bank.

    For me, it usually isn't a huge number of calories, so not a big deal any of those ways, but YMMV.
  • Adventurista
    Adventurista Posts: 1,770 Member
    edited June 19
    so, fats are 9 cals per gram. weigh what you scoop off?
    -- multiply grams x 9 to get the cals amount.

    if you use the product in the tracker.... it shows you cals, carbs, fats & proteins. You could do your own adjusted entry using the quick add tools to quick add the adjusted cals and fat grams totals, then delete the original product entry.

    edit to add from search
    The calories in food come from carbohydrates, proteins, and fats: A gram of carbohydrate has 4 calories. A gram of protein has 4 calories. A gram of fat has 9 calories.

    Figuring Out Fat and Calories (for Teens) | Nemours KidsHealth

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