Canned fruit question

jabberwockgee

No one anywhere seems to know how to answer this question...

I have become a little anal retentive about measuring what I eat. But when I eat canned fruit, the can says, for example, 'each serving is 124g and there are about 3.5 servings per can.' This should be more than 400g, but the fruit itself only weighs about 300g. The rest is apparently the syrup stuff, but I don't know how to log this...

Any suggestions?

jaylu

eek i'm the same when it comes to weighing my food - i quite like to eat things at 100g i dunno why just something i started doing since joining mfp its a little ocd!! but i don't have an answer to the tinned fruits question, if anyone else does i'm looking forward to finding out

ivyjbres

Anything that requires me to either measure or guess (as opposed to unwrap and eat) I log the highest estimation I can come up with. Then if I'm wrong, I get an extra calorie deficit.

rundgrenfan

For something like that, I have been putting the drained food into a measuring cup. Then if there is, say, 1 cup of fruit, I figure that makes two portions (1/2 cup each). Then to figure out the calories and other numbers for that drained portion size, I multiply the numbers from the nutritional information by the number of servings listed on the can, and then divide by two.

Hope that made sense. I'm a geek.

hpsnickers1

I just don't trust the canned fruit. I would rather eat the real thing

jabberwockgee

Anything that requires me to either measure or guess (as opposed to unwrap and eat) I log the highest estimation I can come up with. Then if I'm wrong, I get an extra calorie deficit.

That makes sense, but I'm actually trying to stay as low as possible without accidentally starving myself, so... I usually just say it's the same percentage of the whole can and go a little wrong on how much sugar vs. actual good stuff I'm eating.

jabberwockgee

For something like that, I have been putting the drained food into a measuring cup. Then if there is, say, 1 cup of fruit, I figure that makes two portions (1/2 cup each). Then to figure out the calories and other numbers for that drained portion size, I multiply the numbers from the nutritional information by the number of servings listed on the can, and then divide by two.

Hope that made sense. I'm a geek.

That's what I usually do, actually, but then I think I'm overestimating how much sugar I'm having (since I'm not eating as much syrup) and underestimating how much of the actual good stuff I'm eating.