Calories in fruit?

emily115

I know there is a database here and everything, but I just wanted to know what counts as a small, medium, large pear or plum or apple? Like how many grams?

jellybaby84

Sadly, I think that would be a judgement call!

One of many reasons to leave yourself a calorie buffer. It's way too hard to know accurately what is in foods, especially fresh foods.

dls06

Get a scale and go by weight. It really is the best way.:flowerforyou:

fordster99

I think you can find food scales pretty cheap so that would be your best bet to judge

rockerbabyy

i always avoid the entries that just say "small/medium/large" - because its not really accurate at all. there are lots of entries that have weight and i use those. if theres not one, i check out whfoods.com and make one

emily115

I do have a food scale, but I just wanted to know how many grams is small medium or large. But thanks anyway:)

cheshirechic

I just ate a medium-ish orange and weighed everything I ate-- it was about 125 grams. They were the loose oranges at the grocery store, not the ones in bags. A medium fuji apple (loose, not the teeny ones in the bags, which are usually around 90 grams each), according to my scale, is usually between 150-170 grams. A medium banana is around 100 grams. Calling it "medium" is definitely subjective, but that's what I'd "eye" as medium.

I hope this helps!

rockerbabyy

I do have a food scale, but I just wanted to know how many grams is small medium or large. But thanks anyway:)

well thats the thing, sizing it with one word is subjective. the apples we get i would consider small would actually weigh in closer to medium (based on some of the database entries). what i would call a medium banana weighs in closer to large.

unsuspectingfish

There are actually specific measurements in the agricultural industry for those sizes, but I doubt that's what's in the database. I'd definitely go with a scale, if you're really worried.