How would you log this?

pinggolfer96
pinggolfer96 Posts: 2,248 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I have a can of no salt added beets. If I drained them, and weighed them, would I log them as cooked or raw or boiled? I could follow the nutritionals on the can, but pretty sure that accounts for the weight of re added liquid just like they do for canned beans. Are canned beets technically cooked or raw? Thank you.

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  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    I'd use "Beets, canned, drained solids"
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    The number of calories in the removed beet liquid is negligible for an already low calorie food. Just go by the can info.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,166 Member
    brower47 wrote: »
    The number of calories in the removed beet liquid is negligible for an already low calorie food. Just go by the can info.

    The point is that that if the can label says there are two servings of 125 g each (so a total of 250 g in the can), and each serving is 60 calories (so a total of 120 calories in the can), but the weight includes the liquid, and after you drain off the liquid, all the beets in the can only weigh 150 g, you'll be undercounting the calories if you weigh out 125 g of just beets and use the information from the can label. You'll log 60 calories (b/c it's 125 g), but it's actually 100 calories (125 g/150 g total solids in can X 120 total calories).

    OP, use "beets, canned, drained solids" as kshama2001 suggested, or if you want to reflect the no salt added, there should be an entry like "beets, cooked, boiled, drained, no salt added."
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    edited October 2015
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    brower47 wrote: »
    The number of calories in the removed beet liquid is negligible for an already low calorie food. Just go by the can info.

    The point is that that if the can label says there are two servings of 125 g each (so a total of 250 g in the can), and each serving is 60 calories (so a total of 120 calories in the can), but the weight includes the liquid, and after you drain off the liquid, all the beets in the can only weigh 150 g, you'll be undercounting the calories if you weigh out 125 g of just beets and use the information from the can label. You'll log 60 calories (b/c it's 125 g), but it's actually 100 calories (125 g/150 g total solids in can X 120 total calories).

    OP, use "beets, canned, drained solids" as kshama2001 suggested, or if you want to reflect the no salt added, there should be an entry like "beets, cooked, boiled, drained, no salt added."

    So weigh out half the liquid and half the beets then pour off the liquid you don't want for a calorie estimate that's comperable to the label. The calories are in the beets, with negligible in the liquid. I personally would not get too consumed with 5-10 calories. They're statistically irrelevant.

    If you're having issues with meeting your personal goals, it's not the lack of beet canning liquid that's at fault. But I have a feeling the goal you're trying to hit has nothing to do with beets, calories or anything food and nutrition related.

    Good luck.

  • avskk
    avskk Posts: 1,787 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    brower47 wrote: »
    The number of calories in the removed beet liquid is negligible for an already low calorie food. Just go by the can info.

    The point is that that if the can label says there are two servings of 125 g each (so a total of 250 g in the can), and each serving is 60 calories (so a total of 120 calories in the can), but the weight includes the liquid, and after you drain off the liquid, all the beets in the can only weigh 150 g, you'll be undercounting the calories if you weigh out 125 g of just beets and use the information from the can label. You'll log 60 calories (b/c it's 125 g), but it's actually 100 calories (125 g/150 g total solids in can X 120 total calories).

    OP, use "beets, canned, drained solids" as kshama2001 suggested, or if you want to reflect the no salt added, there should be an entry like "beets, cooked, boiled, drained, no salt added."

    The calories in the liquid are so negligible that they may as well be nonexistent. In this case, you know half the can is however many calories -- let's say 30. You can drain the can, weigh the beets, split them in half, and be reasonably confident you're taking in 30 calories, even without the extra 75g of liquid weight or whatever. Half is half, if that makes sense.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    To answer the other question, canned beets and all canned foods are cooked.
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