boiled egg with different calorie counts

dredgurl

Why is it different websites have radically different calorie counts for a boiled egg? MFP reports a generic boiled egg is 210 calories and states it's 1 cup chopped. The carton I purchased says 70 calories. After checking other websites, I've seen 70 calories and 100 calories, Which is correct? If 70 calories is correct, how can the daily diet diary be corrected?

Elizabeth_C34

It takes more than one egg to make a cup of eggs chopped.

Go with the carton.

PositivelyFlawed

Depends where the info is coming from. Eggs from in sizes from sm to XL (or jumbo) and calories ranges will be different. But a small egg, is a small egg, calories don't vary. Go by what the nutritional info on the carton says as suggested.

Pebble321

If you click on the "1 cup" serving for the entry in the databse you will probably see a range of other serving sizes.
The entry you have found for 1 cup of "eggs chopped" doesn't mean that it is one egg! Common sense will tell you that a cup of boiled egg (chopped) is going to be 3 or 4 eggs, so the cals are probably correct.

Eggs come in different sizes, hence the different calories. Just pick the one from the database that matches your eggs - I usually assume that a medium egg will be about 70 cals, if I happen to have larger ones I will use the entry that is about 74 cals.

The entries which are most likely to accurate will NOT have an * in front of them - this means they are entered by MFP not by users so have probabloy been checked. These entries usually have serving size options - 1 cup, 1 egg, 100g etc.