Are oranges weighed with or without the peel?

wishingiwasfishing5037

my oranges came with a barcode and nutrition info but it didn’t say if they were weighed with or without the peel. Are Cara Cara more calories than other oranges? Same… are cosmic crisp apples. More calories than say.. a green Apple?

herblovinmom

I weigh and log the edible parts. Just the parts I consume. Not sure about your label. But yes different varieties of fruits will vary slightly in nutritional content.. comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges..

AnnPT77

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10934701/are-oranges-weighed-with-or-without-the-peel

One thing to know: Barcodes aren't a pipeline to guaranteed accurate data from the food producer or manufacturer. Like the majority of food database entries here, they're crowd-sourced, i.e., entered by other MFP users.

In the case of bar-coded entries, they were likely entered by the first person who scanned that barcode here, and they entered whatever they felt like entering. If they didn't indicate in the food name whether the orange was peeled or unpeeled, there's no way to know. Unless one double-checks the calorie or other data against some reliable outside source like the USDA FoodData Central Database, no way to be sure the entry is correct in calories or nutrients either.

Food Data Central link: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/

Sure, some apple or orange varieties may have more calories than others. Heck, even some individual apples or oranges may have more or fewer calories than usual for the variety because of growing conditions, weather, and more. Different enough to worry about? Probably not dramatically different. If I have an unusual variety, I'd probably look for an accurate entry for that variety. If it's just a generic variety, I'll use a standard/average accurate entry, and call it close enough.

All of this stuff is really just estimates. They don't have to be absolutely accurate estimates, just workably close . . . and we don't want to cross the line into obsession here, right? That wouldn't be mentally healthy. Just do your practical best, and it'll be OK . . . at least that's what I think based on almost a decade of successful MFP use.

neanderthin

It's an average and it would be a fluke if an any actual piece of fresh produce actually corresponded with whosever data base. All you can do is be reasonably close and how much a person eats and how much they actually burn is also just a guess and the closer you are the better off you are of achieving your caloric goals, don't beat yourself up over being precisely accurate.