Nutritional Content Help!

Lilith5
Lilith5 Posts: 99 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I ordered veal T-bone steak off Westin gourmet 9-10oz but have no idea about the nutritional content. Any help of what steak I can chose from the database that will cover the calories etc?

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  • NaurielR
    NaurielR Posts: 429 Member
    I would look up " Beef, short loin, t-bone steak, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 1/8" fat, choice, raw". That's a USDA entry, so you know it's accurate. It only gives you the option of entering in grams, but it's easy enough to convert ounces to grams. I looked up what 9.5 ounces (269 grams) of steak would be and found its 624 calories. Hope that helps!
  • Lilith5
    Lilith5 Posts: 99 Member
    I would look up " Beef, short loin, t-bone steak, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 1/8" fat, choice, raw". That's a USDA entry, so you know it's accurate. It only gives you the option of entering in grams, but it's easy enough to convert ounces to grams. I looked up what 9.5 ounces (269 grams) of steak would be and found its 624 calories. Hope that helps!

    Thank you that helps alot. Didn't realise there would be so many calories! :cry:
  • NaurielR
    NaurielR Posts: 429 Member
    Hold on...I'm confused now. I just re read your post and realized you ordered veal. I didn't think it would make much difference, but looked it up anyway. There's no option for tbone, but there is a sirloin entry. There are 296 calories on 9.5 ounces of raw veal sirloin.

    And then I looked up a different grade of t bone, and found that select grade tbone has 516 calories.

    And then I realized that the wording "separable lean and fat" probably indicates that the fat on the steak was consumed as well. If you ate the fat, okay. But if you trimmed the fat and left it, there will be fewer calories in the meal. Unfortunately, USDA has no entries for raw tbone with all the fat trimmed away.

    And then I looked up the calorie difference between tbone and sirloin for regular beef. 9.5 ounces of "Beef, top sirloin, steak, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 1/8" fat, choice, raw" is 576 calories (vs 624 for the tbone).

    So basically, it seems like t bone is more caloric than sirloin, so a veal tbone would have more calories than a veal sirloin.

    However, it also appears that veal has fewer calories than adult beef, so the calorie counts of the beef t bone would also be in inaccurate.

    Bottom line, I am now as confused as you.
  • Lilith5
    Lilith5 Posts: 99 Member
    I'm starting to think I should have just gone with normal beef steaks! I don't eat meat that often, unless you include chicken, so would it make a difference to my diet? Or should I rethink my foods through?
  • NaurielR
    NaurielR Posts: 429 Member
    There's nothing wrong with eating different types of meat, except that sometimes they can be friggin hard to log! But nutritionally, eating different types of meat is okay,

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