Frustrating Nutrition Label

AlbinoRaven42
AlbinoRaven42 Posts: 1
in Food and Nutrition
Hello all! I have been working successfully with myfitness pal for almost a year now. I am right smack dab in the middle of the healthy weight range, I look and feel great. My goal right now is to maintain what I have attained. I've been doing very well, but I ran into a very frustrating nutrition label that I just can't seem to wrap my brain around. I am a lover of starches, and I recently picked up the "Krusteaz Belgian Waffle Mix". Usually the mix makes perfect sense (as I usually make pancakes but I found my waffle iron recently), if you eat just the mix (as most of us eat dry pancake mix by the spoonful) its 200ish calories, and if you make the recipe on the back with eggs/etc. its 500ish calories.

Now the Krusteaz label has "1 serving size is 1/2 cup mix or 1 7 inch waffle", then it has "as prepared" nutrition information. Now the minimum amount you can make is 1 and 1/2 cups of the mix (as you can't get smaller than a single egg)., but this makes 2-3 waffles. Now as prepared is listed as "430 calories", and after eating 2 waffles made as prepared, this feels about right (I probably could have squeezed 1 more waffle out, and they were around 6ish inches). Am I correct to assume that the complete 1 and a 1/2 cups of the mix (as prepared) is 430 calories or is that just the 1 waffle?

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  • weird_me2
    weird_me2 Posts: 716 Member
    Hello all! I have been working successfully with myfitness pal for almost a year now. I am right smack dab in the middle of the healthy weight range, I look and feel great. My goal right now is to maintain what I have attained. I've been doing very well, but I ran into a very frustrating nutrition label that I just can't seem to wrap my brain around. I am a lover of starches, and I recently picked up the "Krusteaz Belgian Waffle Mix". Usually the mix makes perfect sense (as I usually make pancakes but I found my waffle iron recently), if you eat just the mix (as most of us eat dry pancake mix by the spoonful) its 200ish calories, and if you make the recipe on the back with eggs/etc. its 500ish calories.

    Now the Krusteaz label has "1 serving size is 1/2 cup mix or 1 7 inch waffle", then it has "as prepared" nutrition information. Now the minimum amount you can make is 1 and 1/2 cups of the mix (as you can't get smaller than a single egg)., but this makes 2-3 waffles. Now as prepared is listed as "430 calories", and after eating 2 waffles made as prepared, this feels about right (I probably could have squeezed 1 more waffle out, and they were around 6ish inches). Am I correct to assume that the complete 1 and a 1/2 cups of the mix (as prepared) is 430 calories or is that just the 1 waffle?

    Not quite what you are saying, but I would say that if you are using 1 1/2 C dry mix, that would equal however many calories 1/2 C dry mix is times 3 and then you would add in the calories for whatever else you add (egg, milk, butter, etc.). Then, once you make your waffles, divide the total calories by however many waffles you get to figure out your calories per waffle.
  • Gholmar
    Gholmar Posts: 37
    1 1/2 cups of the mix, dry, is 840 calories
    1 egg is 70 calories
    3 tbsp oil is 360 calories

    So if you prepared and ate 1 1/2 cups of the mix according to the recipe, you ate 1270 calories, not counting any syrup or other toppings.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Use the recipe builder. Put it as 1 serving. Now put in the mix as dry. Then put in whatever other things you added. Then make your waffles. Then change the serving size to however many waffles it actually made. Then you'll have your calories per waffle.

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