Nutriition Calculating for Pudding MIX

Colleen118
Colleen118 Posts: 491 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Okay, so I am a little confused on how to manuver around this pudding mix and the nutrition information on the package. I am so confused and this stuff usually is easier for me to understand. I am making frozen popsickles for a sweet snack and the package mixed makes 6 popsickles (not the 4 servings of pudding per package instructions) SO I ask for help here....
The package has nutritional information for both dry and prepared with fat free milk information. Issues: I only need the dry mix information. I have made the mix with unsweetened almond milk and know the values will be different than fat free milk. What I don't understand is calculating the calories, carbs, and other information for the entire package for just the dry mix. See the label here:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Sugar-Free-French-Vanilla-Reduced-Calorie-Pudding-Pie-Filling-1.34-Oz/10532845
My instinct says to take the information from the column for 1/4 package and multiply that information by 4. Is my instict right? Someone please point me in the right direction. Based on the information in the food log, these popsickles EACH still cost 6 net carbs... that just doesn't make any sence to me and seems very high. If they are correct, I will need to hold off on these treats for just a little bit while trying to maintain keto...

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  • martyqueen52
    martyqueen52 Posts: 1,120 Member
    I make this pudding a lot and what I do is just scan the barcode on the box using MFP..... put in 4 servings.... then I scan in my milk, which is low fat ... for 2 servings. Pretty simple.
  • Colleen118
    Colleen118 Posts: 491 Member
    I did that and then added my Almond milk expecting a big change from the fat free milk and was very disappointed that butritionally the recipe was really no different. That is what raised my suspisions. I know we as users log everything in here and people always do it differently based on the information they might need. I guess my question is this more than anything. The package says 30calories per dry mix serving, 3 carbs per dry mix serving.... is that the information I should use when calculating my recipe? The barcode populates the prepared values (I believe)
  • martyqueen52
    martyqueen52 Posts: 1,120 Member
    Yes.

    It it says it's 3G carbs per dry serving, it won't change just because you add milk. The only thing that will change is the OVERALL carb content from ADDING the milk.

    Example:

    Milk = 20g carbs per serving

    Pudding dry mix = 3g carbs per serving

    Total = 23g carbs per serving.


    Same concept as oatmeal. The overall calories/macros DO NOT change just because you add water and cook it.

    Why are you so worried about carbs anyways?
  • Colleen118
    Colleen118 Posts: 491 Member
    Yes.

    It it says it's 3G carbs per dry serving, it won't change just because you add milk. The only thing that will change is the OVERALL carb content from ADDING the milk.

    Example:

    Milk = 20g carbs per serving

    Pudding dry mix = 3g carbs per serving

    Total = 23g carbs per serving.


    Same concept as oatmeal. The overall calories/macros DO NOT change just because you add water and cook it.

    Why are you so worried about carbs anyways?

    thank you!!! :happy: That is what I was wondering... was my thought that it has only 3g carbs/30 cal per DRY serving correct so that I can add it into "My foods" as just the dry mix and use it for a recipe to get the correct values using amond milk and getting 6 servings to get the actual serving per popsickle. I just couldn't see one popsickle being 6 g of crabs mixed when the dry is 3 alone on a serving that is larger... It made no sense and I thank you for your clarification that my mind may have left but I still have a piece of it :wink:

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