Confusion about bread calories

21million
21million Posts: 113 Member
edited November 9 in Health and Weight Loss
Someone I know made a huge batch of bread dough. I was going to take some of it and make some bread (the only calorie in it is flour, which is 110 cals per 30 grams). I was wondering, do I just weigh my baked bread slices and for each 30 grams say that's 110 calories, or is that completely wrong? The other ingredients are water, salt, and yeast (the yeast calories are negligible because so little is used that I don't know how I'd go about calculating that when I'm only taking a portion of the dough).

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  • KylaDenay
    KylaDenay Posts: 1,585 Member
    edited December 2014
    There are plenty different types of bread listed for you in the database. Select the type of bread it is and use the gram option. Put in the grams of the weighed portion of bread.

    Oh and the options without the * are the options you should go with.
  • 21million
    21million Posts: 113 Member
    Is there a way to view the ingredients used for each entry? I'm just worried about going with one that has extra stuff in it that this bread doesn't have and paying dearly for the calories where I don't actually have to. Thank you!
  • vismal
    vismal Posts: 2,463 Member
    You can't just weigh the bread because 30 grams of bread doesn't = 30 grams of flour. The water contributes to the weight of the bread. Using the database is also not a good idea because it's homemade bread and probably won't contain the exact same ratios of ingredients that the breads in the database contain. What I would do is take the total weight of the flour say it's 180 grams, then divide by the total weight of the bread once it's baked, say it's 500 grams. Using those made up numbers you get .36. Now weigh out however much bread you want to eat, say you want half the loaf, that's 250 grams. Multiply that by .36 and you have the corresponding amount of flour, 90 grams.
  • gzus7freek
    gzus7freek Posts: 494 Member
    I use the following website to calculate the calories in a recipe.

    http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php

    That way you can play with the serving size to get the desired calories you want
  • KylaDenay
    KylaDenay Posts: 1,585 Member
    vismal wrote: »
    You can't just weigh the bread because 30 grams of bread doesn't = 30 grams of flour. The water contributes to the weight of the bread. Using the database is also not a good idea because it's homemade bread and probably won't contain the exact same ratios of ingredients that the breads in the database contain. What I would do is take the total weight of the flour say it's 180 grams, then divide by the total weight of the bread once it's baked, say it's 500 grams. Using those made up numbers you get .36. Now weigh out however much bread you want to eat, say you want half the loaf, that's 250 grams. Multiply that by .36 and you have the corresponding amount of flour, 90 grams.
    Ah okay, so can't you just use the recipe builder?
  • vismal
    vismal Posts: 2,463 Member
    KylaDenay wrote: »
    vismal wrote: »
    You can't just weigh the bread because 30 grams of bread doesn't = 30 grams of flour. The water contributes to the weight of the bread. Using the database is also not a good idea because it's homemade bread and probably won't contain the exact same ratios of ingredients that the breads in the database contain. What I would do is take the total weight of the flour say it's 180 grams, then divide by the total weight of the bread once it's baked, say it's 500 grams. Using those made up numbers you get .36. Now weigh out however much bread you want to eat, say you want half the loaf, that's 250 grams. Multiply that by .36 and you have the corresponding amount of flour, 90 grams.
    Ah okay, so can't you just use the recipe builder?
    You could do that too. Just enter in all the ingredients then the amount of servings 1 load will yield. The only thing is, if you ever change your recipe you have to remember to change your recipe in the builder.
  • beautifulciera
    beautifulciera Posts: 202 Member
    vismal wrote: »
    KylaDenay wrote: »
    vismal wrote: »
    You can't just weigh the bread because 30 grams of bread doesn't = 30 grams of flour. The water contributes to the weight of the bread. Using the database is also not a good idea because it's homemade bread and probably won't contain the exact same ratios of ingredients that the breads in the database contain. What I would do is take the total weight of the flour say it's 180 grams, then divide by the total weight of the bread once it's baked, say it's 500 grams. Using those made up numbers you get .36. Now weigh out however much bread you want to eat, say you want half the loaf, that's 250 grams. Multiply that by .36 and you have the corresponding amount of flour, 90 grams.
    Ah okay, so can't you just use the recipe builder?
    You could do that too. Just enter in all the ingredients then the amount of servings 1 load will yield. The only thing is, if you ever change your recipe you have to remember to change your recipe in the builder.

    I must friend you....your knowledge can definitely be beneficial to me on this fitness journey and that profile picture is much needed motivation :)

    I use my recipe builder for all my homemade dishes, I just find it hard calculating what is considered to be one serving.

  • jrose1982
    jrose1982 Posts: 366 Member
    I think the problem with the recipe builder is that OP is taking a portion of what somebody else made. So the recipe might call for 3 cups of flour, but the portion OP takes only has 1 or 1.2 cups and they don't know how much.

    What I would do is approximate how much of the total recipe you take (1/2, 1/4, etc). If you take 1/2 the dough, enter the recipe as 2 servings. If you take 1/4 of the dough, call it 4 servings, etc. Then when you add the bread to your log, you can estimate how much of your portion you've eaten and that will be the number of servings (again, it will be some fraction or decimal).

    This isn't very exact. If you can weigh the total bread dough, then weigh your portion, you can make it more accurate. The calculate the amount you eat by weighing the slice that you eat vs. the baked loaf.
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,272 Member
    If you know how many grams of flour your dough contains it's straight math.
    Calculate the calories of ingredients you received and divide that by the number of grams for the whole cooked loaf for cals/gram. Then weigh your slices and multiply by cals/gram.
    If not, you're out of luck (guessing)
  • FatFreeFrolicking
    FatFreeFrolicking Posts: 4,252 Member
    Enter the ingredients into the recipe builder.
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