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    How big is a bowl?

    Posts: 8 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    When I am tracking food, I usually weight things, so I know how many calories I am eating, but I struggle when I look for soups in the food database and it gives you so many calories for "1 bowl"
    It confused me because I don't know if my soup bowls are too big or too small or average.
    Does anybody roughly know how many ml an average soup bowl has?
    thanks

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    • Posts: 17,299 Member
      I had no idea there was a standard soup bowl size. But I'm curious to see if you get an answer that makes sense.
    • Posts: 3,512 Member
      There is no standard bowl size. If you are eating soup, I am assuming you either made it (use recipe calculator on MFP to figure out calories) or log it from what the back of the can says.
    • Posts: 1,430 Member
      Bowl of what.?
    • Posts: 1,146 Member
      Does your soup say a serving size? Like half the can, or an amount of ounces? A food scale might help.
    • Posts: 8 Member
      It is homemade soup, I can't look in the can to see how many calories there is on it.
      I made a carrot and coriander soup, I checked in the food database to see how many calories it has, roughly.
      Well, it says "1 bowl" is about 100 calories, that is why I wondered if my kitchen soup bowls are standard.
    • Posts: 17,299 Member
      I did a Google search and the most common answer was 8 oz = a cup of soup, and 12 oz = a bowl of soup. 1 oz = about 29.5 ml.
    • Posts: 5 Member
      Most canned soups give you the calorie count by measurement. (ex- 1 cup = 110 calories) therefore all you have to do is measure.
    • Posts: 1,804 Member
      in general, if I come across an item in the database that says something arbitrary as the serving, I move along to an item that is more quantified or I enter it myself.
    • Posts: 2,121 Member
      Bowl of what.?

      As much as you can squeeze in there
    • Posts: 1,089 Member
      use the recipie calculator
    • Posts: 8,934 Member
      In the food service industry it varies. A cup is usually 8 fl. oz. But a bowl can be 12, 16 or 20 fl. oz. Best to find a more precise option in the database or measure it out.
    • Posts: 617 Member
      I try to add the ingredients into the recipe calculator myself when someone has listed a non defined serving size. But I know that takes a lot of time and if I'm in a hurry, I just go with whatever seems closest in the database, or wait until I have time to do it.
    • Posts: 834 Member
      best thing to do - measure it out with a food scale
    • Posts: 516 Member
      Use the recipe calculator. It will ask you how many servings your recipe makes, thus you will determine what "1 bowl" is.

      Yup - use the calculator and just set the serving size to a measurement you know (like 1 cup - a measuring cup). Then you can adjust the number of cups in your diary to fit in with how many calories of that soup you want to eat.
    • Posts: 414 Member
      I couldn't get my hands in the toilet enough to measure...

      Oh wait.. Sorry.
    • Posts: 666 Member
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      As much as you can squeeze in there
      cheech-and-chong.jpg
    • Posts: 509 Member
      Everything I make at home, I have a sheet of paper there with me and I track the calories I'm using for each item. When I'm done and before I serve any of it, I weigh out servings so that they are the same amount. I then divide the total calories in my recipe by how many servings. This can be a huge eye-opener, especially when it comes to using oil in recipes. I've learned that when cooking (other than baked goods), that I can usually cut the oil in half.

      After I'm done, if we liked the recipe, then I'll add it all into the recipe database. If I happen to use different brands the next time, I'll modify the recipe I need to rather than add it all over again.
    • Posts: 2,603 Member
      ~500 cubic centimeters
    • Posts: 8 Member
      I figure its 8 oz. Just one cup. If you look on soup cans it is usually 2 serving and then divivde by total oz. Okay I think I put this on the wrong message board. I was answering how big is a bowl?
    • Posts: 17,299 Member
      It is homemade soup, I can't look in the can to see how many calories there is on it.
      I made a carrot and coriander soup, I checked in the food database to see how many calories it has, roughly.
      Well, it says "1 bowl" is about 100 calories, that is why I wondered if my kitchen soup bowls are standard.

      If it's in the database, does that mean the soup from an online recipe (e.g. Cooking Light or skinnytaste)? If so, I would think the recipe site should tell you what = 1 bowl.
    • Posts: 2,086 Member
      I did a Google search and the most common answer was 8 oz = a cup of soup, and 12 oz = a bowl of soup. 1 oz = about 29.5 ml.

      What is this "Google" you speak of?
    • Posts: 6,420 Member
      I thought this was about the size of the toilet bowl

      Because my fat *kitten* is so fat, that I have to remove the lid to make more room to sit :(
    • Posts: 34,971 Member
      show previous quotes
      cheech-and-chong.jpg

      ROFLMAO! I am not ashamed to say that when I saw the title of this thread, I was hoping someone would do this. Glad to know there are people on my wavelength :P
    • Posts: 2,086 Member
      Smaller than you think it is.

      Like I haven't heard that before...
    • Posts: 354 Member
      It really depends on the radius and geometry of the bowl. Is it a hemisphere? 3/4 of a sphere? Depending on the radius and shape you can utlize three-dimensional calculus by integrating curve with respect to dx,dy, and dz. This should help you evaluate the volume of the bowl.
    • Posts: 10,477 Member
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      Like I haven't heard that before...

      *lick lick*
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      I agree with others that the best thing you can do is use the recipe calculator...this is what I do when I'm doing one of my own recipes. That said, I've taken to doing a lot of recipes from various websites and chefs where those recipes themselves are in the data base. I make a lot of soups and stews and a serving size generally tends to be anywhere from 1 cup to 1.5 cups. A serving size for me is almost always 2 cups so I adjust my calories accordingly.
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