Hazelnut Milk: how to add it to my food?

jinxtv
jinxtv Posts: 3
edited November 11 in Food and Nutrition
Okay, so, most days I have hazelnut milk that I make myself and the ingredients are just hazelnuts and water, but then it is strained so there is a pulp that gets left behind and not consumed. I am trying to add this hazelnut milk to my food diary and I found an entry for "homemade hazelnut milk", and I thought "great! that's what I have!" so I added it and the app told me that I just added 15g of sugar to my daily intake, but THAT can't be right because a whole cup of raw hazelnuts has just 6g of sugar, and I'm not using a whole cup of hazelnuts in a cup of hazelnut milk.

Looking for more information on this item, I can't find much other than it is a user added item. It's very cool that users can add items and other users can then find them! But...is there a way to see what the ingredients of the added food are or some notes on it or anything? How do I know how the user came up with the nutrition info?

Basically, this is something I have almost every day and I would like to record it accurately, but it seems like this listing doesn't match how I make hazelnut milk....and yet I don't know what would match it or how to figure out the nutrition content of my very simple nut milk.

Any suggestions?

Replies

  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I have no idea but it sounds delicious...
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Many hazelnut milk recipes call for sugar.
    This entry might be close to what you make.

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  • jinxtv
    jinxtv Posts: 3
    Argh, I don't know! I looked up the ingredients for that one:
    Ingredients: filtered water, nuts (almonds, cashews, hazelnuts), inulin, tricalcium phosphate, soy lecithin, carrageenan, gellan gum, natural flavors, sea salt, vitamin e (d-alpha tocopheryl acetate), vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d2, vitamin b12.

    And at first I thought if you ignore the salt and the added vitamins and the fact that hazelnuts are the last nut listed, it must have very similar nutritional information to my fresh hazelnut milk, and it's great that it's unsweetened, BUT I'm pretty sure mine is significantly higher in calories.

    Maybe I'll make up my own food by making a kind of frankenstein hybrid of this milk and the actual nutritional info for hazelnuts.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    You are on the right track. These things should be easier.
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