Bread crusts

HammyStopHamming
HammyStopHamming Posts: 20
in Food and Nutrition
Ok I just wanted to know about something I noticed. So I hate bread crust. I just do. So I cut it off. I decided to cut off the crust of a slice very close to the crust and weigh it. Turns out, half the weight in in the crust in every slice.

Are half the calories in the crust as well or would it be balanced differently? Just wondering.

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  • sylv1979
    sylv1979 Posts: 44 Member
    I eat kingsmill 50/50 crusts away bread now and again (UK) basically just white or white and wholemeal bread without crusts. They are around 47 cals a slice. full normal slice is around 100 so would say yeah around half the calories :)
  • iWaffle
    iWaffle Posts: 2,208 Member
    Ok I just wanted to know about something I noticed. So I hate bread crust. I just do. So I cut it off. I decided to cut off the crust of a slice very close to the crust and weigh it. Turns out, half the weight in in the crust in every slice.

    Are half the calories in the crust as well or would it be balanced differently? Just wondering.

    Just trim the calories off the way you do the bread crust. So if it's 120 calories for the slice of bread the take off the edges. Removed the 1 and the 0 on the outside. Ta da! It's only 2 calories without the crust.
  • 257_Lag
    257_Lag Posts: 1,249 Member
    You must have the straightest hair in the world!
  • HammyStopHamming
    HammyStopHamming Posts: 20
    Why would I have straight hair? Also the 50/50 thing is interesting.
  • Trilby16
    Trilby16 Posts: 707 Member
    I like the crusts best. I would eat only crust.
  • 257_Lag
    257_Lag Posts: 1,249 Member
    Why would I have straight hair? Also the 50/50 thing is interesting.

    My grandmother always told me to eat my crust because it will give you curly hair. :laugh:

    Just an old wive's tale but 40 years later I can still hear her saying it.
  • HammyStopHamming
    HammyStopHamming Posts: 20
    Trillby, we should go halfies on a loaf of bread. You can have the crusts and I will eat the centers.

    And I was really confused about the hair thing. Pretty sure they could have threatened me with anything as a child and I wouldn't have eaten them. Haha.
  • healthygreek
    healthygreek Posts: 2,137 Member
    I love getting a very coarse fresh baked olive bread and just dipping the crusts in excellent extra virgin first cold pressed olive oil and eating it-yummy yummy yum yum!!!!
  • HammyStopHamming
    HammyStopHamming Posts: 20
    I love getting a very coarse fresh baked olive bread and just dipping the crusts in excellent extra virgin first cold pressed olive oil and eating it-yummy yummy yum yum!!!!

    Actually, this would be the exception for me. I love crunchy crusts. But not the really dense, soft ones you get on standard loaves.
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
    The crust isn't anything special, it's all part of the same recipe, so if you weigh it and it's half the weight of a slice of bread, then technically you would log half of the bread, since that's really what you're eating. I really like iWaffles theory, though. I eat the crust and I have wavy hair.

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