Bacon math

wishingiwasfishing5037
wishingiwasfishing5037 Posts: 30 Member
edited August 23 in Food and Nutrition
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the calories seemed a bit light for me so I did some bacon math. A cooked 17 gram slice is 70 calories. There are 15 in the package. The package weighs 680 grams. Each slice weighs about 45 grams. Therefore, each raw slice in this package is 186 calories…. Or 70 calories after cooking. How much bacon fat is left in your pan? Now go enjoy your BLT

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,370 Community Helper

    Oh, it's worse than that . . . or better.

    If a raw slice weighs 45 grams, and a cooked slice weighs 17, cooking made the slice lose 28 grams of . . . something. 28 grams of fat would be around 252 calories. If the bacon lost 252 calories of fat, starting out at 186 calories when raw, then when cooked it has become the mythical negative calorie food, 186 calories minus 252 calories, or -66 calories. Seems doubtful, dunnit?

    It only needs to lose 98 calories of fat for a cooked slice to be 70 calories, which would be just a jot under 11 grams of fat. Seems plausible? Lose 11 grams of fat, 17 grams of water - round numbers - to make a cooked slice weigh 17 grams?

    Gosh, I'd bet the people who process and sell this have a better insight into this than I do. Perhaps we're overthinking this, maybe, unless a person eats a whopping lot of bacon?

    We don't need perfect numbers: We just need workably close ones.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,847 Member

    This is just more supporting proof that my preference for crispy bacon is healthier than my wife who prefers hers still soft and greasy! lol

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 19,287 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48736138#Comment_48736138

    You're probably not far off with your 11 grams of fat, 17 grams of water, this type of bacon is heavily brined and quite water-logged before cooking. Source - I make my own bacon and smallgoods, have for years :)

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