Question About Weighing Fruit…Please Help!

PugBug20

Hi, all. Most of the time, when a website lists the nutritional information of a piece of fruit, it will include the weight of the fruit (e.g., one peach weighing 150 grams has 60 calories, one banana weighing 118 grams has 105 calories, etc.) to be as accurate as possible. My question is, does that include the part of the fruit that you don't eat (i.e., the pit)? For instance, when I searched the number of calories in a plum, I found that one plum weighing 66 grams has 30 calories. The plums that I bought are rather small, but weigh 150-155 grams, pit included. Does the 66 grams also include the weight of the pit or just the weight of the flesh? In other words, should I subtract the weight of the pit to determine the weight of the flesh, or should I weigh the whole fruit, pit included? Is just the flesh 30 calories, or is the entire fruit, pit included, 30 calories? I hope that made sense, I know it was a confusing question. Thank you for any clarification.

itsbasschick

only weigh the part you eat. that applies to pretty much anything.

Francl27

I only weigh what I eat as well, but I'm not sure it's what we're supposed to do.

lemurcat12

I'm pretty sure the USDA entries are only for the edible part of foods (no pits for peaches, just like no bones for meat, no shells for eggs).

I prefer to use the 100 gram options than those that try to estimate the size of the fruit, although if you have grams with those at least you can do the math and make it work. You might want to confirm that it comes out the same or close as the USDA entry (or use the nonasterisked one in MFP).