Someone check my math on a smoothie?

eomuno215in541
eomuno215in541 Posts: 201 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I created a food, homemade smoothie: frozen berries, coconut milk, ginger, kale, sunflower butter. I get 234 calories which seems high. Can someone add up the nutrition info for the individual items and double check my math? Thank you!
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  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    I created a food, homemade smoothie: frozen berries, coconut milk, ginger, kale, sunflower butter. I get 234 calories which seems high. Can someone add up the nutrition info for the individual items and double check my math? Thank you!

    How can you not list amount used of each ingredient and expect anybody to determine the calorie count?
  • __freckles__
    __freckles__ Posts: 1,238 Member
    I created a food, homemade smoothie: frozen berries, coconut milk, ginger, kale, sunflower butter. I get 234 calories which seems high. Can someone add up the nutrition info for the individual items and double check my math? Thank you!

    How can you not list amount used of each ingredient and expect anybody to determine the calorie count?

    :laugh:
  • just_Jennie1
    just_Jennie1 Posts: 1,233
    I created a food, homemade smoothie: frozen berries, coconut milk, ginger, kale, sunflower butter. I get 234 calories which seems high. Can someone add up the nutrition info for the individual items and double check my math? Thank you!

    How can you not list amount used of each ingredient and expect anybody to determine the calorie count?

    Based on the ingredients I came up with 4,193 calories.
  • ashzacher
    ashzacher Posts: 114 Member
    Not sure what kind/how much sunflower butter you used, but any type of nut butter isn't exactly low in calories (assuming sunflower butter is similar in calories). That may be where a majority of your calories are coming from. :)
  • eomuno215in541
    eomuno215in541 Posts: 201 Member
    I noticed that. It's 2 tablespoons for a full pitcher of the blender. Is a pitcher I think 24oz? Thanks.
  • eomuno215in541
    eomuno215in541 Posts: 201 Member
    That's what I meant by check my math. I can read and add. My math's right. Just not sure about the nutrition numbers. I was hoping someone would google the nutrition for each item and double check my result. I'm coming up with 270 calls for 16oz which seems high for the ingredients. Granted there are so many brands w varying nutrition. And I'm trying to share it with the community because I just didn't see a pre-existing smoothie that matched what I make. But if you want, yes, I can post/send all the nutrition numbers for each item. Maybe you could tell me if anything looks higher than it should be?
  • eomuno215in541
    eomuno215in541 Posts: 201 Member
    How can you not list amount used of each ingredient and expect anybody to determine the calorie count?

    That's what I meant by check my math. I can read and add. My math's right. Just not sure about the nutrition numbers. I was hoping someone would google the nutrition for each item and double check my result. I'm coming up with 270 calls for 16oz which seems high for the ingredients. Granted there are so many brands w varying nutrition. And I'm trying to share it with the community because I just didn't see a pre-existing smoothie that matched what I make. But if you want, yes, I can post/send all the nutrition numbers for each item. Maybe you could tell me if anything looks higher than it should be?
  • jamebb
    jamebb Posts: 86 Member
    That's what s/he means. It's impossible to check your numbers without knowing how much kale, coconut milk, etc you used.
  • bagge72
    bagge72 Posts: 1,377 Member
    How can you not list amount used of each ingredient and expect anybody to determine the calorie count?

    That's what I meant by check my math. I can read and add. My math's right. Just not sure about the nutrition numbers. I was hoping someone would google the nutrition for each item and double check my result. I'm coming up with 270 calls for 16oz which seems high for the ingredients. Granted there are so many brands w varying nutrition. And I'm trying to share it with the community because I just didn't see a pre-existing smoothie that matched what I make. But if you want, yes, I can post/send all the nutrition numbers for each item. Maybe you could tell me if anything looks higher than it should be?

    Google it yourself.
  • jamebb
    jamebb Posts: 86 Member
    Also given that 2 tbsp of sunflower butter is about 200 cal and a half cup of coconut milk is about 150, your smoothie calories seem kind of low. But again, its hard to make a determination without know how much (how many cups, grams, mL) of each ingredient you used.
  • eomuno215in541
    eomuno215in541 Posts: 201 Member
    Based on the ingredients I came up with 4,193 calories.

    For berries and veggies?? The sunflower butter's about 93 cals factoring 1/4 of a 28oz blender. Coconut milk about 60. I know they vary by brand. I'm trying to calculate one 16 oz serving, not the full 28oz. Thanks anyway.
  • AllieGeorge23
    AllieGeorge23 Posts: 26
    Based on the ingredients I came up with 4,193 calories.

    For berries and veggies?? The sunflower butter's about 93 cals factoring 1/4 of a 28oz blender. Coconut milk about 60. I know they vary by brand. I'm trying to calculate one 16 oz serving, not the full 28oz. Thanks anyway.

    Sarcasm detector turned off?
  • just_Jennie1
    just_Jennie1 Posts: 1,233
    How can you not list amount used of each ingredient and expect anybody to determine the calorie count?

    That's what I meant by check my math. I can read and add. My math's right. Just not sure about the nutrition numbers. I was hoping someone would google the nutrition for each item and double check my result. I'm coming up with 270 calls for 16oz which seems high for the ingredients. Granted there are so many brands w varying nutrition. And I'm trying to share it with the community because I just didn't see a pre-existing smoothie that matched what I make. But if you want, yes, I can post/send all the nutrition numbers for each item. Maybe you could tell me if anything looks higher than it should be?

    I did Google the ingredients and since you didn't specify servings I came up with 4,000 calories.

    Why don't you measure out everything as you put it in the blender and create the recipe? It's not that difficult to do. The smoothie that I make is 588 calories for 2 servings. I figured this out by putting all the ingredients in and since it's for two people made the serving size for 2 so one serving is 294 calories.
  • AlayshaJ
    AlayshaJ Posts: 703 Member
    What you are asking does not make sense with the information you provided. We need more information.
  • just_Jennie1
    just_Jennie1 Posts: 1,233
    What you are asking does not make sense with the information you provided. We need more information.

    Not to hijack but you have amazing arms.
  • chivalryder
    chivalryder Posts: 4,391 Member
    Based on the ingredients I came up with 4,193 calories.

    For berries and veggies?? The sunflower butter's about 93 cals factoring 1/4 of a 28oz blender. Coconut milk about 60. I know they vary by brand. I'm trying to calculate one 16 oz serving, not the full 28oz. Thanks anyway.

    Hmmmm... If you're filling a 28 oz blender 1/4 full of sunflower butter, that comes out to 1302 calories.

    In all seriousness: Tell us how much of each ingredient you're putting into the blender, and we can tell you how many calories there are.

    Or, you know, you can log the numbers in your food diary and you'll get the answer faster.
  • eomuno215in541
    eomuno215in541 Posts: 201 Member
    I created a food, homemade smoothie: frozen berries, coconut milk, ginger, kale, sunflower butter. I get 234 calories which seems high. Can someone add up the nutrition info for the individual items and double check my math? Thank you!

    How can you not list amount used of each ingredient and expect anybody to determine the calorie count?

    :laugh:

    Thanks for laughing. I'm just trying to get accurate info and hoped someone would be kind enough to search the nutrition charts and see if their result was close to mine. The laughter helps so much. Shouldn't you be on the msn boards? I guess laughter burns a couple calories and I should have been more specific for "peers" who didn't understand.
  • MissMollyMN
    MissMollyMN Posts: 74
    How can you not list amount used of each ingredient and expect anybody to determine the calorie count?

    I was hoping someone would google the nutrition for each item and double check my result.

    Ummm....can't you?
  • just_Jennie1
    just_Jennie1 Posts: 1,233
    I created a food, homemade smoothie: frozen berries, coconut milk, ginger, kale, sunflower butter. I get 234 calories which seems high. Can someone add up the nutrition info for the individual items and double check my math? Thank you!

    How can you not list amount used of each ingredient and expect anybody to determine the calorie count?

    :laugh:

    Thanks for laughing. I'm just trying to get accurate info and hoped someone would be kind enough to search the nutrition charts and see if their result was close to mine. The laughter helps so much. Shouldn't you be on the msn boards? I guess laughter burns a couple calories and I should have been more specific for "peers" who didn't understand.

    And again how hard is it for you to make the recipe yourself? Sounds like you're just being lazy.

    Take the ingredients and measure them out as you put them in the blender. BAM! Instant recipe.
  • AlanByam
    AlanByam Posts: 36
    They need to know the quantity of each ingredient you put in. We can't just guess than you put in an 1/8 of a cup. No way to be accurate or even guestimate with the information given. Need measurements of EACH ingredient added.
  • bagge72
    bagge72 Posts: 1,377 Member
    I created a food, homemade smoothie: frozen berries, coconut milk, ginger, kale, sunflower butter. I get 234 calories which seems high. Can someone add up the nutrition info for the individual items and double check my math? Thank you!

    How can you not list amount used of each ingredient and expect anybody to determine the calorie count?

    :laugh:

    Thanks for laughing. I'm just trying to get accurate info and hoped someone would be kind enough to search the nutrition charts and see if their result was close to mine. The laughter helps so much. Shouldn't you be on the msn boards? I guess laughter burns a couple calories and I should have been more specific for "peers" who didn't understand.

    You do realize that you have to put the type, brand, and serving size of each item for people to do this for you right? Can you tell me how many calories are in my smoothie? I used berries, protein powder, white chocolate pudding mix, and chocolate. It all seems very lazy on your part though just in general. It's like saying hey guys I heard on Dr. Oz that a water fast is great, can you guys google it for me, and give the me the results?
  • dmeyerman
    dmeyerman Posts: 27
    I was hoping someone would google the nutrition for each item and double check my result.

    Here you go, "let me google that for you"! =)http://bit.ly/1dt66iM (I even shortened the address for your copying convenience).
  • 33Freya
    33Freya Posts: 468 Member
    234 calories per ounce, or? Coconut milk tends to be high in calories as as well as the nut butter- next time you make it, put each ingredient into MFP. Measure the amount of each ingredient, and input it. Then save it as a meal, and divide it up by serving size. It seems like a lot of trouble at first, but make this kind of tracking a habit! You can't get directions to where you're going if you don't know where you are!

    All the best,
  • bagge72
    bagge72 Posts: 1,377 Member
    What you are asking does not make sense with the information you provided. We need more information.

    Not to hijack but you have amazing arms.

    Yeah definitely worth hijacking!
  • dmeyerman
    dmeyerman Posts: 27
    Go to http://www.calorieking.com/ it will help you a bunch with specific ingredients and serving sizes.
  • mssag
    mssag Posts: 23 Member
    I suggest you use the recipe option under the food tab (click the food tab, then recipes, then click the green box labelled "enter new recipe"). Find and enter each of you individual ingredients, which mostly likely are all in the database, to give you a tally for the full amount. For "servings", I would just enter 1, and then assuming your pitcher is 24 ounces and you drank 16 ounces, just enter the meal into your diary as 0.66 (i.e., 16/24, which is 66%). That will give you the total calories and nutrition values for the amount you drank.

    Oh, and without having any idea of the exact ingredients of your smoothie, I'd guess that 234 isn't high for 16 ounces. Again, that would depend mostly on how much berries and sunflower butter you had, and what kind of coconut milk you used (sweetened or unsweetened, light or regular, etc.).
  • willywonka_71
    willywonka_71 Posts: 41 Member
    I created a food, homemade smoothie: frozen berries, coconut milk, ginger, kale, sunflower butter. I get 234 calories which seems high. Can someone add up the nutrition info for the individual items and double check my math? Thank you!

    How can you not list amount used of each ingredient and expect anybody to determine the calorie count?

    :laugh:

    Thanks for laughing. I'm just trying to get accurate info and hoped someone would be kind enough to search the nutrition charts and see if their result was close to mine. The laughter helps so much. Shouldn't you be on the msn boards? I guess laughter burns a couple calories and I should have been more specific for "peers" who didn't understand.


    What is making people not understand your post, and poking fun at it, is the fact that you are asking for help in counting how many calories are in your smoothie based on the ingredients you put in it. That’s fine and dandy, but we need to know HOW MUCH of each ingredient you put in the smoothie in order to help calculate it ...for all we know you could have put in 3 tablespoons of almond butter... or 20.

    If you want someone to help you, you have to list the AMOUNT of each ingredient (in grams/ounces) that you put in your smoothie.
  • bagge72
    bagge72 Posts: 1,377 Member
    I suggest you use the recipe option under the food tab (click the food tab, then recipes, then click the green box labelled "enter new recipe"). Find and enter each of you individual ingredients, which mostly likely are all in the database, to give you a tally for the full amount. For "servings", I would just enter 1, and then assuming your pitcher is 24 ounces and you drank 16 ounces, just enter the meal into your diary as 0.66 (i.e., 16/24, which is 66%). That will give you the total calories and nutrition values for the amount you drank.

    Oh, and without having any idea of the exact ingredients of your smoothie, I'd guess that 234 isn't high for 16 ounces. Again, that would depend mostly on how much berries and sunflower butter you had, and what kind of coconut milk you used (sweetened or unsweetened, light or regular, etc.).

    What I think this person wants you to do is actually google each ingrediant, because he thinks that the packaging lable is wrong, because of how many calories are in the smoothie, even though I don't think I have ever made a smoothie with that low of a calorie count. He actually added up the calories on each specific product, but really thinks those lables are wrong.
  • jwdieter
    jwdieter Posts: 2,582 Member
    Go to http://www.calorieking.com/ it will help you a bunch with specific ingredients and serving sizes.

    Clicked on link but didn't go anywhere. Can't you just provide the contents of the link? Why does this have to be so hard!?!?!
  • AlayshaJ
    AlayshaJ Posts: 703 Member
    What you are asking does not make sense with the information you provided. We need more information.

    Not to hijack but you have amazing arms.

    Yeah definitely worth hijacking!
    Pahahahah! Thanks, guys!

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