How to figure calories per pizza slice from local pizza chain?
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absoluttalent
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Just curious, but is there a pizza calculator to figure out calories per slice of a pizza from local chains based on pizza size (10, 12, 14, 16+"), thin crust and toppings?
Everything Im seeing is for the big chains with thick crust (papa johns, pizza hut, dominos, etc..)
Kinda hard to figure it out also since the stuff listed for those big companies is per slice, and the slices are triangles. And this stuff is square cut and obviously smaller. Or any good rule of thumbs to use?
Everything Im seeing is for the big chains with thick crust (papa johns, pizza hut, dominos, etc..)
Kinda hard to figure it out also since the stuff listed for those big companies is per slice, and the slices are triangles. And this stuff is square cut and obviously smaller. Or any good rule of thumbs to use?
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Honestly, we try to only order from the chains that have published information these days for just this reason, and I always over eat on pizza. A good rule of thumb would be take what you think it is, and assume you are under-estimating by 50% or so.
If you wanted to get a bit more accurate, you could order a similar pizza from one of those big chains, weigh it, then you'll know the 'calories per gram' number, and you could probably safely apply that math to similar pizza from a local place.1 -
Pizza Hut has thin crust. A slice is usually 1/8. You should be able to get pretty close from that.0
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I just look for big chains that have a similar style of pizza and guess.1
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If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
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1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.3 -
I weight it and compare the contents to a chain store in terms of cheesiness, thickness of crust and topping distribution. Then I log it based on the entries for the chain store as percentage of a serving. It's not terribly precise.1
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Domino's also has thin-crust, square-cut pizzas. Just find something similar and ballpark it.0
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
________________
1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.
You made my head hurt.LOL.
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
________________
1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.
I feel like I should have paid attention more in school.. It's like one of those word problems that would come up on a test.
Anyways. As the others have said. Find something similar in the database and go from there.
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Lol.....I hate math.
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frankiesgirlie wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
________________
1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.
You made my head hurt.LOL.
+1. But I still wish I could figure it out. Or at least new what a "rectangular pizza" is, let alone its sides.0 -
I use the SWAG method (scientific wild *kitten* guessing!).
As others have said, find what seems a close and reasonable match in the database and go with that. Assuming you're not eating this pizza nightly, it's not going to make or break your progress.
I have a lot of local spots that we hit on a regular basis, so generally at least once a week I'm totally guessing on cals, but I've still managed to reach my goals and maintain my fat loss for several years now without busting out of all my new smaller clothes.
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I like the guesstimating then adding 50%. Here's why: my son has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby. The amount of insulin he takes depends on how many carbs he eats. It took a few years to figure out restaurants. What we end up doing now is guessing on the carbs and adding about 50%. That almost always works. We even have to do this with restaurants that have published nutritional information. Restaurant foods can somehow pack an extreme amount of calories and carbs in food that we would never guess could be there. It works well for us with carbs so I bet adding 50% to your guesstimate would work with calories as well.0
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frankiesgirlie wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
________________
1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.
You made my head hurt.LOL.
+1. But I still wish I could figure it out. Or at least new what a "rectangular pizza" is, let alone its sides.
She also made my brain hurt...but I just got done a long study sessions so any more thinking period would make my brain hurt at this point.0 -
If you ask them not to cut it, does the whole pizza count as one slice?0
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Pizza Hut, Dominoes and Donatos all have thin crusts.
Whenever I have to log something from a restaurant, I pick a chain and log theirs. There is no way to know if it's close to the same, but it allows me to log something. For pizza, I'd probably pick Pizza Hut.1 -
i also eat at local pizza spots and they are ny style so the slices are like 2x that of pizza hut etc... but the crust is was thinner so I usually log a pizza hut thin slice and times it by 2.0
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Lol, yah, I just tell myself one slice of pizza is 1 thousand calories. xD0
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frankiesgirlie wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »If you find an entry for a large-chain equivalent-style thin crust pizza that you trust (checked against chain's website, or with many user confirmations),
X/Y (A*B)
________________
1/Z (pi * r-squared)
where X = the number of slices you ate
Y = the number of slices in your total pizza
A = one side of your rectangular pizza
B = the other side of your rectangular pizza
Z = the number of total slices in the chain pizza
pi = 3.14
r-squared = the square of the radius of the chain pizza (e.g., 36 for a 12-inch circular pizza, 64 for a 16-inch circular pizza, etc.)
Equation will yield the number of servings of the chain pizza (assuming the serving is one slice) that you should log.
You made my head hurt.LOL.
+1. But I still wish I could figure it out. Or at least new what a "rectangular pizza" is, let alone its sides.
OP said the slices at the local pizza place were square, so I assumed it was a rectangular pizza -- not a circle of dough, but dough formed into a rectangle. I don't think I've ever seen a pizzeria slice a circular pizza into square slices. The sides are the edges. A*B is the formula for the area of a rectangle (four-sided figure whose edges all meet in right angles), where A is the length and B is the width (or vice versa ;-)1 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »
OP said the slices at the local pizza place were square, so I assumed it was a rectangular pizza -- not a circle of dough, but dough formed into a rectangle. I don't think I've ever seen a pizzeria slice a circular pizza into square slices. The sides are the edges. A*B is the formula for the area of a rectangle (four-sided figure whose edges all meet in right angles), where A is the length and B is the width (or vice versa ;-)
I've never seen square cut pizza come from anything other than a round pizza? Even little ceasars, pizza hut, dominoes, etc... If you order a square cut pizza.....its from a round pizza. You end up with a few triangles too
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This is from a fairly famous St. Louis pizza place - the super thin crust, round pizza but cut into rectangles, with provel cheese instead of mozzerella is St. Louis style pizza. ETA that the edges have some triangles in them too... yeah geometry!
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