Calories in fried food

sonjita

If you take 50g of raw onion (21 calories) and fry it in 10ml olive oil (90 calories), can you assume that the number of calories in the fried onion is the sum of the calories in the raw onion plus the calories in the oil, (21 plus 90 = 111) or is it more complicated than that?

Thanks!

Sonjita

taralom42

That's how I would figure it out as well.

aliceofwonderland

I would do that, but then subtract however much oil is left in the pan

sonjita

Thanks! x

TrainingWithTonya

Thats how I was taught to log it. Unfortunately, too many people forget to log those fat calories from the oil. Or are like my DH and want to ignore them as they say they are eating veggies from onion rings! LOL Sounds like you are doing just fine and are being very good with logging. I firmly believe that fried foods are fine if done in a healthy oil (olive or canola) and the calories are all alloted for in you daily log.