help me understand this nutritional information

UnknownAX0
UnknownAX0 Posts: 24 Member
edited November 18 in Food and Nutrition
I've got a question regarding the nutritional information printed on the back of Knorr Hot & Sour Soup. it says per 100 g soup contains 320 Calories but next to it is per serving which is more than 100 g and contains 39 calories only. i am confused how to log this in MFP

So, here goes, the nutritional information :

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1 Packet Cooked soup weigh in grams is 688

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  • nettam3re3
    nettam3re3 Posts: 66 Member
    That is pretty confusing. I would interpret that as: if you ate 100gm of the undiluted soup mix, it's 320 cal. If you dilute it according to the directions, each serving is 39 calories.

    How many servings in the whole package? I'm guessing about 8?
  • UnknownAX0
    UnknownAX0 Posts: 24 Member
    edited May 2015
    nettam3re3 wrote: »
    That is pretty confusing. I would interpret that as: if you ate 100gm of the undiluted soup mix, it's 320 cal. If you dilute it according to the directions, each serving is 39 calories.

    How many servings in the whole package? I'm guessing about 8?

    If i count calories according to serving size which is 4-5 serving it is 178.88 Calorie for 688 g cooked soup
  • kickassbarbie
    kickassbarbie Posts: 286 Member
    (I'm going to assume this is a soup requiring adding water or adding something?)

    The 100g is of the soup mix uncooked as packaged. (Your not going to eat 100g dry soup mix or undiluted condensed soup)

    The serving size (150g) is once you have prepped the soup as instructions. So the w
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    How many grams of dry mix are in the packet?

    if the packet has, e.g. 50g and there are 4 servings, one serving is 12.5 g of dry mix.

    320 (total cals per 100g) x 0.125 = 40 calories per serving.



  • patrikc333
    patrikc333 Posts: 436 Member
    edited May 2015
    320 cal = calories for 100g of mix
    39 cal = calories for 150g of cooked soup, which should contain ~12g of uncooked mix
  • UnknownAX0
    UnknownAX0 Posts: 24 Member
    Alright everyone, thanks for clearing that up

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