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Question about logging cereal

CaddieMay
CaddieMay Posts: 356 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Okay, so I bought a digital scale and I am logging everything using grams. This is usually not a problem, as I can find a metric conversion website that can handle what MFP can't (when the entry only uses ounces, etc.). My problem is breakfast cereals. I KNOW that I am using more than a cup of cereal on occasion, but when I go to convert, say, 85 grams of shredded wheat (which fills the bowl and looks way more than a cup), the metric conversion to a cup comes out to be .371 of a cup. This only adds up to around 70 calories. No way does this sound right. What am I doing wrong, if anything? Is there another way to go about this problem? BTW, I simply cannot find an entry that uses grams. Only cups.

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  • cajuntank
    cajuntank Posts: 924 Member
    You are comparing weight and volume which are two different things. 1 cup of shredded wheat is 49 grams according to their website, so at 85 grams, you are eating almost 2 cups.
  • pteryndactyl
    pteryndactyl Posts: 303 Member
    You can't strictly rely on 1 cup of a cereal weighing the same as 1 cup of a different cereal. They're different sized etc. Cups are units of volume, grams are units of mass.

    Read the label to see how many grams = one serving of that particular cereal, then do some simple math and enter that.

    For example, if my cereal says 32g = one serving (3/4 cup), and I pour 85g, I divide 85/32 = 2.65 servings (nearly 2 cups)

    2.65 servings is then what I enter on MFP.
  • CaddieMay
    CaddieMay Posts: 356 Member
    Oh, I see! Thank you both for the clarification. Makes total sense to me now. :smile:

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