sweet potato calories?

uglyclub
uglyclub Posts: 83 Member
edited November 8 in Food and Nutrition
I can't find any accurate calorie count for sweet potatoes! Some sites say they are 86-90 per 100 gram, another says it's 130 per 100g. I don't know what to trust.

I usually eat korean/japanese sweet potatoes.

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  • nickatine
    nickatine Posts: 451 Member
    generally sweet potatoes raw our 100 calories per 110 grams. quite calorie dense but also quite filling.
  • uglyclub
    uglyclub Posts: 83 Member
    nickatine wrote: »
    generally sweet potatoes raw our 100 calories per 110 grams. quite calorie dense but also quite filling.

    that's how i was counting it, but there are some websites that state that they're 130 per 100 grams, so i'm quite confused.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    uglyclub wrote: »
    nickatine wrote: »
    generally sweet potatoes raw our 100 calories per 110 grams. quite calorie dense but also quite filling.

    that's how i was counting it, but there are some websites that state that they're 130 per 100 grams, so i'm quite confused.

    It's always going to vary a bit. If you took 100 g of sweet potato from several different potatoes and measured the calories, they would all be slightly different. And if the potatoes were from different growing regions and/or seasons, the difference would likely be even greater. It's all just averages.
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    edited November 2014
    Here is a non-asterisk entry for sweet potato, raw that tracks with the USDA Food List.

    Sweet potato - Raw, unprepared (Sweetpotato)

    86kcal/100g

    Reference:
    ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/3242
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    According to the USDA:

    100g = 86 calories

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  • leggup
    leggup Posts: 2,942 Member
    86 cal/100 grams.
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