Nutritional Information: Don't believe it all!?!

MsHolly731
MsHolly731 Posts: 54 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Our out-of-state family are in town and had decided to take us to Ponderosa for dinner last night because they didn't want me to have to cook.

While out, I figured "I'll eat somewhat healthy" and ordered the grilled shrimp meal (incl. baked potato and a bed of rice pilaf(which I didn't eat, mushy & overcooked, :sick: )).

Upon coming home last night to log my food, I look up on Ponderosa's nutritional site for grilled shrimp....it states "without sides".....888 calories....WHAT!!!!!!:explode:

Everyone else ordered the 6oz sirloin & fried shrimp meal....565 calories.....OK something is definately wrong here when grilled is worse than fried.......:grumble:

So I did some mathematics with their nutritional information:

A 6 oz sirloin meal with 1 skewer of shrimp is 374 calories (6oz sirloin alone is 310) so a skewer would equal 64 calories.
However they don't seem to include the baked potato that's with those two meals.

An add-on of a skewer of grilled shrimp is 371 calories (I'm assuming on a bed of rice pilaf)

I think I've concluded the 888 calories in the Ponderosa Grilled Shrimp Meal consist of:
2 skewers grilled shrimp (128 cals),
1 plain baked potato (275 cals), and
3 oz of rice pilaf (483 cals) = 886 calories because I can 't figure out how they can toss that many calories into 2 skewers of grilled shrimp.....

I'm NOT trying to lower the calories of what I ate to make myself feel better....if it was 888 calories, then it was 888 calories, but I want to make sure I'm entering my foods :heart: accurately :heart: and it seems like their nutritional information is awfully inconsistent.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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  • Koldnomore
    Koldnomore Posts: 1,613 Member
    How big were the shrimps and how many were there?
    Shrimps differ in sizes. You can get a shrimp in different sizes that will determine a lot about the calories in shrimps. Some examples of the sizes of shrimp are extra jumbo size, colossal size, large, medium size or small. These sizes can be determined by looking at the shrimp or weighing it.

    The size more often than not plays a major role in determining the number of calories in the shrimp. For instance, a 100 gram shrimp which is considered as large has about 71 calories in it. On the contrary though, an 85 gram shrimp has about 60 calories in it. These are the facts for raw shrimps. The carbohydrate levels vary at about 0.91 to 0.77 grams in the shrimp depending on the size of the raw shrimp.

    Are there more calories in shrimp?

    As much as shrimps have a reasonable amount of calories, this can change very easily depending on the way that it is cooked. The calories in shrimp can increase and be double the size if they are fried. Because there are many ways to make the shrimp, the ways that you select will determine if you are subjecting yourself to too many calories or not.

    The reason why shrimp is often to be considered to have high cholesterol is because it mostly fried when it is cooked. Fried shrimp has about 240 calories. For instance, a 100gram shrimp that previously had 71 calories gets 242 calories when fried and a 85 gram shrimp gets 206 calories when fried.

    Steamed shrimp reacts in te same way though the quantity of the calories range between 119 and about 100 calories. The method of cooking you use will determine the amount of calories in shrimp that you end up exposing yourself to.

    It might be possible if say you had 8 large shrimps or 16 smaller ones.. or say they were marinated in butter before being grilled, or even brushed liberally.
  • MsHolly731
    MsHolly731 Posts: 54 Member
    Lame but understandable

    However you get 2 skewers of 8. If they averaged 100 each, it would be 1600 calories.

    ..and somehow that same skewer on my meal is 380 calories less on a sirloin meal, but it's cooked the same way.

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  • ckeys2008
    ckeys2008 Posts: 3
    Holly, I just had the very same issue. For a snack yesterday I ate a bag of kettle baked sea salt and vinegar chips. The tracker said it was 1350 calories. I was like huh?!?! That was more than I was allowed for entire day. SO I just went and looked at the bag and that says that the chips are 550 calories..... I'm totally confused, because I thought that baked was healthier.....
  • MsHolly731
    MsHolly731 Posts: 54 Member
    Sad thing is I was only using their nutritional information, didn't use the MFP tracker at all and their numbers are just that screwy so you can't tell what is right.
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