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Special K cereal

c1aireee
c1aireee Posts: 269 Member
edited January 8 in Food and Nutrition
has anyone else tried Special K chocolate clusters ( I am in UK )? if anyone else has had them how do u work out the calories sugar etc for a bowl without semi skimmed milk? I not good at maths so how do u work out a 30g bowl using the 100g values on the back of the box? divide 100 by 3? am i being stupid! it only has values of a 45g amount

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  • coffee_rocks
    coffee_rocks Posts: 275 Member
    If you are using 100g and converting to 30g, multiply the 100 by .3 (decimal 3). Dividing by 3 is a pretty good estimate, but will be 10% too high.

    If you have a 45g serving size, you can enter it as 2/3 of a serving, and that would be 30g.
  • tegantheaverage
    tegantheaverage Posts: 142 Member
    You times the total by 0.3 to get the total for 30 grams (or 30% of the total). So if it says 245 calories that's 245 x 0.3 = 73.5 calories for the 30g.
  • c1aireee
    c1aireee Posts: 269 Member
    thanks for your help!
  • c1aireee
    c1aireee Posts: 269 Member
    so if I took for example total fat amount from the 100g values which is 9g, so if I do 9 x 0.3 = 2.7, is 2.7g the amount of total fat in a 30g amount/bowl ? is that right?
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    Yes that is correct but honestly why are you wasting calories on that rubbish? And why are you only eating 30g, is that a snack not a main meal? Remember the UK nutrition guidelines are for maximum 10% of daily calories as sugary/ processed/ junky stuff, Special K is like 40% sugar so it hits that button.
  • c1aireee
    c1aireee Posts: 269 Member
    so a question... if I have only 100g values of a product how do I get the value of 120g like calories, eg : the calories for 100g is 344 and I want the calories for 120g so do i take the calculation from above and change it to 20g : 344 x 0.2 = 68.8 cals and then add 68.8 to 344cals = 412.8 which would be the calorie amount for 120g = 412cals is that right???
  • c1aireee
    c1aireee Posts: 269 Member
    please help is 85g 0.85 or just 0.8???
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