Salter slim kitchen scale

Happyme2009
Happyme2009 Posts: 233 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi, I just bough this Salter 1406 model nutritional scale. It was expensive. And I don't understand it.... how can one apple, not too big, not small either, have 152 calories?
And also, one more question.... unrelated....
For example if you make baked chicken breast... this website gives you 110 cal for a 3 oz portion. It that a 3 oz portion of chicken that is cooked already or raw?

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  • mahanaibu
    mahanaibu Posts: 505 Member
    An apple (pure edible apple, not the core) has 15 calories an ounce. So you can judge from that whether your scale is accurate in its calorie counts. a 10-ounce apple is a very big apple, even with the skin on.

    Most calories for food,. especially meats, are given for the raw weight unless they specifically state otherwise.

    It's hard to get truly accurate calorie counts. The FDA allows packaged foods to be off their stated calorie amounts by as much as 20% and a study found that on average, they're off by 8%.

    http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1951798,00.html


    I notice that many of the foods in the MFP database have inaccurate counts, I guess because individuals are inputting many of those. So you get the best idea you can, get knowledgeable about generally how many calories are in different foods, and then it's wise to add a fudge factor of a good 10%.
  • Thegle
    Thegle Posts: 41 Member
    I have one of those scales, but have never used it for food - apparently you have to look up a food code. Unfortunately I don't have an apple right now or I'd test mine for you. It is a very accurate scale though I've weighed food that had weight on it and it was bang on.
  • Happyme2009
    Happyme2009 Posts: 233 Member
    Thank you!
    Especially for the "raw" food info, I was very confused.
    As for the scale, well, it is accurate for weight.... I weighted a package I had to mail . On my scale it was 497 grams, on the post office scale 495 g.... I guess 2 g difference I can say it's accurate.
    But the for calories, well, I never took into consideration that the scale weights the apple and considered the core as calories too, or as "eaten".... I guess nothing is truly accurate...

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