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Does not make sense

josiereside
josiereside Posts: 720 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I made muffins this morning following a recipe which had nutritional info stated with the recipe. However, due to needing to substitute low fat buttermilk for nonfat buttermilk, I had to create a recipe in MFP recipe calculator. There was about a 40 calorie difference with my muffins made with the low fat being lower than the no fat muffins??? does not make any sense to me.

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  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    You're comparing the recipes nutritional info to what you came up with on MFP? Did you try putting the original recipe into MFP's calculator to see if it matches?
  • josiereside
    josiereside Posts: 720 Member
    You're comparing the recipes nutritional info to what you came up with on MFP? Did you try putting the original recipe into MFP's calculator to see if it matches?

    No I did not... good idea.. I did not even think of that!
  • josiereside
    josiereside Posts: 720 Member
    Okay, I just did and it took 1 calorie off my recipe... My calculations come to 150 calories. The recipe I have is 187...
  • AlabasterVerve
    AlabasterVerve Posts: 3,171 Member
    It's not unusual for no/low fat products to have more calories than the ones with higher fat content because they had to add sugar to them to make them more palatable.
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Now you have both recipes entered, you just have to look at each ingredient and see where the discrepancy is.
  • josiereside
    josiereside Posts: 720 Member
    Now you have both recipes entered, you just have to look at each ingredient and see where the discrepancy is.

    yeah, not going to be doing that... time consuming enough to enter the stuff. I will go with the higher value to be safe.
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Well if it was the same recipe other than the milk, I'd think you could just compare the two milks.
  • morgansmom02
    morgansmom02 Posts: 1,131 Member
    It's not unusual for no/low fat products to have more calories than the ones with higher fat content because they had to add sugar to them to make them more palatable.

    THIS!!!!
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    It's not unusual for no/low fat products to have more calories than the ones with higher fat content because they had to add sugar to them to make them more palatable.

    THIS!!!!
    Depends on the brand, but low-fat and non-fat buttermilk seem to be about the same calories, at least according to MFP.
  • josiereside
    josiereside Posts: 720 Member
    Well if it was the same recipe other than the milk, I'd think you could just compare the two milks.

    That is what I did and there was just a 1 calories difference, 150 for using the low fat, 149 for the nonfat, everything else the same. The printed recipe I had gave me the calories of 180 something with the nonfat.
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