Question about FRUIT.

happydayzz

So when I get calorie averages for fruits like peaches/nectarines/apricots and other fruits with large seeds, does that average include the seed or not? Like if 100 grams of peach is 40 calories (just an estimate) then does that include the seed?

Thanks!

carld256

Good question. You could remove the pit, weigh the remaining fruit, and enter it as "sliced fruit". I don't think it would be different enough to bother with though.

happydayzz

anyone?:huh:

jaharrison763

My guess is that it would include the seed. At least, that's the way I've been measuring.

JayByrd107

The intent is to give you a measure of the calorie content of the part of the fruit that you have eaten/will eat. So it is reasonable to assume that they do not include the pit or other inedible parts. I don't know anyone who eats these parts.
Take a pineapple: would you assume that if someone said they ate 500 grams of pineapple that they meant that they ate the green top and the outer rind?

carld256

I guess the point is, if you weigh a peach and it weighs 100grams, that weight will include however many grams of inedible pit that you're counting as edible calories, thus throwing off the calorie count, if only slightly.

JayByrd107

Yes, but the question wasn't whether or not the pit matters, but should it be included. The answer would be no. There is no logical reason to record the weight of food not eaten.

carld256

Yes, but the question wasn't whether or not the pit matters, but should it be included. The answer would be no. There is no logical reason to record the weight of food not eaten.

Honestly, I don't even know why we're arguing about this.