HUGE discrepancy in calories - grapes.

GatorDeb1
GatorDeb1 Posts: 245 Member
edited September 22 in Food and Nutrition
I weighed 76 grapes at 506 grams. If I select grapes, raw, 5.06 of 100g, I get 339 calories. If I select grapes, raw, 76 grapes, I get 122 calories. Are my grapes really that huge? How small do the grapes have to be in order to count as that little calories? Which is more accurate? Thanks! :)

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  • NeuroticVirgo
    NeuroticVirgo Posts: 3,671 Member
    wow would like to see how to do this. I always just put it by grape and thats a big amount of calories not being counted.
  • beethedreamer
    beethedreamer Posts: 465 Member
    i usually go with the grams measurement because it seems more accurate the weigh something rather than count it out, but that's just my opinion.
  • socialistauditor
    socialistauditor Posts: 3
    I agree, the safest way to take into account the size of grapes is enter it by weight, not by individual grape.
  • RobertaG
    RobertaG Posts: 205 Member
    I figured this out a while ago and was shocked. It doesn't only apply to grapes. For example, in the database, a "small banana" has to be like 80 grams, which is about 2/3 of what I would consider a small banana. That's why I always weigh my food out.
  • SarahNicole317
    SarahNicole317 Posts: 302 Member
    It's true. I used to count them and then started weighing... some grapes in the stores are huge... esp jumbo grapes :P MFP is correct and entering grapes by the number is for small grapes.
  • NatalieWinning
    NatalieWinning Posts: 999 Member
    It also helps to put your own recipe's in. My recipe doesn't match up at all with some of these things eg: gingerbread man cookie. You can save, or fool yourself up to 200 calories!
  • joeybaby66
    joeybaby66 Posts: 14
    Be careful with consuming too many grapes. Lots of sugar in the little beauties. Not to say what it does to your glycemic index.
  • GatorDeb1
    GatorDeb1 Posts: 245 Member
    Well, that's like 3X the calories, which means they consider a grape a third of the size of my grapes. That's not a grape, that's a raisin.
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