Confused with banana calories

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  • Curtruns
    Curtruns Posts: 510 Member
    hesn92 wrote: »
    Lol omg. It's a banana. 105 calories. Done.

    BOOM!
  • JoseCastaneda
    JoseCastaneda Posts: 245 Member
    edited March 2015
    I have never weighed my food... yeah, I said that. I've lost 70+ pounds while using MFP without weighed a single banana in almost 1 year of using this wonderful app. Why? as someone said, life is too short, and I just guesstimate the weight/size of the stuff. May be if I weighed my food I'd get better/faster results, but I really don't care to be that specific. I'm not saying "don't weigh your food". If it's worth it for you, if it works, go ahead and do it! I personally prefer the other way.

    OP, weigh it without the skin at home. You will get a # you can use next time you log a banana of approximately the same size. If you can't weigh it @ work, then there is no way you will be extremely accurate with such banana, but you can log an approximate. If you don't care about it, use ziploc bags, or tupperware to take your peeled banana to work.

    Have a wonderful day!
  • gainer39911
    gainer39911 Posts: 125 Member
    The USDA database gives a "refuse" percentage for many foods which corresponds to the inedible portion. For bananas, it's 36%. Therefore, the edible fruit in the OP's 130 g banana is about 83.2 g. The edible portion of the banana, again from the USDA data, has a calorie content of 89 cal/100 g, so the OP's banana has 74 calories.
  • dawnna76
    dawnna76 Posts: 987 Member
    Curt911 wrote: »
    hesn92 wrote: »
    Lol omg. It's a banana. 105 calories. Done.

    BOOM!

    yeah a average banana is 100 calories give or take. this isnt exactally rocket science and a difference of 10-20 calories give or take is not gonna to make a difference in a long haul
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,311 Member
    re: cut up fruits turning brown:

    To maintain "freshness", you can store pre-weighed, pre-cut, fruits in an air-tight container to which you add some (fresh) lemon or lime juice. Gently shake till all the cut-up fruit has come into contact with the ascorbic acid.
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