Appeal: Please use serving size as grams

I agree!!!! I mean, when I see 1 cup or half a cup, it drives me crazy! I don't know how big your cup is!
Thank you for bringing this up!

I don't know where you're from, but I'm hoping that it's not a place in the world where 1 cup = 8 fl oz.

I also like to weigh my food . . . in ounces, which is a smaller unit for a pound. I renounce your grams.

^^^This. My scale weighs in ounces, I hate it when items are listed in grams. My cup is also a measuring cup.

An ounce is 28g. 16oz per pound. Therefore, a pound is 448g.

I agree!!!! I mean, when I see 1 cup or half a cup, it drives me crazy! I don't know how big your cup is!
Thank you for bringing this up!

uh....a cup is a unit of measure. one cup = one cup.

love this.

I'm not sure where you live but here in the U.S. a lot of food items are not given a gram serving size. Instead it could be in ounces, cups, etc. And I think you're being awfully anal weighing prepackaged foods.

Most of the food I buy has the gram serving size in parenthesis.

I know that. Most of mine does to but not all. It would be easier to measure (for me) if it were all in grams, but sometimes it just doesn't come that way. That was my only point.

1 cup = what i wear when i play baseball

I'm not sure where you live but here in the U.S. a lot of food items are not given a gram serving size. Instead it could be in ounces, cups, etc. And I think you're being awfully anal weighing prepackaged foods.

Most of the food I buy has the gram serving size in parenthesis.

I know that. Most of mine does to but not all. It would be easier to measure (for me) if it were all in grams, but sometimes it just doesn't come that way. That was my only point.

Ahh, I gotcha. Yeah, it can be a pain at times.

Weight (Grams or ounces) should be used for solid foods, and volume (fl ounces, ml, cups) for liquids

I prefer grams for liquid when possible as well.

First, in the US, many things do not give a gram serving size. Second, it's pointless to try to calculate calorie count by weight on prepackaged foods. What they give for the serving size and calorie count is an average of a sample of the prepackaged meals. Some may be lighter, some may be heavier and even two prepackaged meals of the same weight may have different calorie counts because one had more veggies and the other had more meat or cheese. Your pizza might have actually been 100 calories more because all that extra weight was in cheese and oil, or it may have been only 20 calories more because all that extra weight was in vegetables. It's even possible that your heavier pizza had the same calories as that of the suggested serving size. Heterogeneous prepackaged foods vary significantly in calorie counts.

The calories on food packages are all estimates anyway, your pizza wasn't identical to the pizza they measured calories for.

Also, you can't just upscale the calories of your pizza by weight to assume your pizza is the same. What if the difference in weight wasn't equal between the ingredients and was just down to your pizza receiving too much cheese

Just deal with it :drinker:

No such thing as too much cheese

The calories on food packages are all estimates anyway, your pizza wasn't identical to the pizza they measured calories for.

Also, you can't just upscale the calories of your pizza by weight to assume your pizza is the same. What if the difference in weight wasn't equal between the ingredients and was just down to your pizza receiving too much cheese

Just deal with it :drinker:

No such thing as too much cheese

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First, in the US, many things do not give a gram serving size. Second, it's pointless to try to calculate calorie count by weight on prepackaged foods. What they give for the serving size and calorie count is an average of a sample of the prepackaged meals. Some may be lighter, some may be heavier and even two prepackaged meals of the same weight may have different calorie counts because one had more veggies and the other had more meat or cheese. Your pizza might have actually been 100 calories more because all that extra weight was in cheese and oil, or it may have been only 20 calories more because all that extra weight was in vegetables. It's even possible that your heavier pizza had the same calories as that of the suggested serving size. Heterogeneous prepackaged foods vary significantly in calorie counts.

First, yes they do.

Second, are you suggesting to not do it then? Or that it is better to not err on the side of caution?

Or just stop being lazy and use the various online tools to do the conversions to the unit of measurement in your country yourself.

ummmm. I think a cup is 8 oz and a 1/2 cup is 4 oz.

Well I just did a little experiment - I weighed a cup of flour (level) - it was 160g or 5 5/8 oz, and a cup of penne pasta (as level as poss) and that was 95g or 3 1/4 oz.

I'll stick with my scales.

really? that's like saying that gram of flour equals 1 litre of flour. This is just not a fact. 8 fluid ounces of flour does not equal 8 weighed ounces of flour.

I'm not sure where you live but here in the U.S. a lot of food items are not given a gram serving size. Instead it could be in ounces, cups, etc. And I think you're being awfully anal weighing prepackaged foods.

I'm in the US and I have yet to see any packaged food that doesn't have a gram serving size (unless it's a liquid, although I wish that came in grams too!). As a matter of fact, I contacted a brand a couple weeks ago because their label was inaccurate (it said 2oz (50g)), and they said they have to put the serving in grams, and just rounded it up for the ounces, but that the gram serving was the accurate one.

I typically have to go back and forth between the computer and the kitchen to look at the package to see what the serving size is in grams, but yeah, I might have to edit the entries so it's less annoying.

ummmm. I think a cup is 8 oz and a 1/2 cup is 4 oz.

Well I just did a little experiment - I weighed a cup of flour (level) - it was 160g or 5 5/8 oz, and a cup of penne pasta (as level as poss) and that was 95g or 3 1/4 oz.

I'll stick with my scales.

1 cup = 8 FLUID ounces.

1 cup of something solid such as flour or pasta is a volume measurement (it occupies approximately that amount of space) and is not a weight measurement. No, it is not as exact as weighing something in grams, but then I don't carry a scale with me everywhere I go, either.)

I'm pretty sure you can edit it and just edit that amount. Yes more work for you, but it'd be accurate in your diary.

I am aware of that function, because I have to use it constantly. The database is there so calorie counting is easy, not a nuisance of sitting at my PC with packaging in my hand, typing everything in. No-one benefits from the "1 pizza" measure, that's my point. It is inaccurate, and to my knowledge there exists no inaccurate-calorie-count-diet for people to use.

Edit: Okay I have to revoke my assumption that MFP users rely on food scales- my apologies.

Eating healthy and trying to lose weight while tracking your calories is very hard work. That might mean inputting the food items in the database the way YOU prefer. I do it all the time. If I want the best out of my free weight-loss website, I do what I must do to keep my logging as accurate as possible.