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pookita19
pookita19 Posts: 10 Member
edited December 2024 in Recipes
I recently started making seitan from scaratch and I want to be able to track what I eat. I enter the recipe I use in the recipe section and it serves 10. I make 10 pieces that each weight 100 gms.
When I enter it in my diary it gives me way less macros than what I find seitan facts to be .
What I'm I doing wrong?
I want to make sure I'm not overeating or under eating.

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Are you saying that you put in the recipe that it makes ten servings, but when you actually log a serving the macros are different than what the recipe builder told you it would be for a serving?
  • pookita19
    pookita19 Posts: 10 Member
    @janejellyroll in the recipe section I put all the dry ingredients that will give me 10 pieces of seitan, each weighing 100 grams after being boiled. The recipe builder tells me that each serving is 7.5 carbs, 20.1 protein and 121 calories, but when I research seitan online it tells me that 100 grams of seitan is 14 grams of carbs, 75 grams of protein and 370 calories.
    It's a big difference.
  • DaddieCat
    DaddieCat Posts: 3,643 Member
    edited April 2016
    Every Recipe is going to be different depending on exactly the ingredients used. Mine is below:

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    Normally I have nutritional yeast in there, but I was out.
  • HealthierRayne
    HealthierRayne Posts: 268 Member
    there are a lot of entries on MFP that are not right, it sounds like a larger than 100 gram serving size to get 75 grams of protein.

    I checked a different site, cron-o-meter, and it listed seitan, 100 grams as 21.2 grams of protein, 3.5 grams of carbs and 1.2 grans of fat, 105.9 calories.

  • enterdanger
    enterdanger Posts: 2,447 Member
    Sorry, when I read the title I pictured SATAN not Seitan. maxresdefault.jpg
  • chunky_pinup
    chunky_pinup Posts: 758 Member
    75g of protein?!?! Where do I get that type of seitan?!
  • pookita19
    pookita19 Posts: 10 Member
    I'm just confused because in many websites I find the same nutritional facts for seitan of 100 grams of seitan = 75gms of protein and 14gms of carbs.
  • DaddieCat
    DaddieCat Posts: 3,643 Member
    You're looking at the nutritional info for wheat gluten and not seitan.

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    Seitan is not only gluten... it's other things too unless you make it with only gluten and water, but that would be bland.
  • enterdanger
    enterdanger Posts: 2,447 Member
    OMG @becomingbane...you have a head. I always kinda pictured you as like the headless horseman since your pics were pecs only
  • pookita19
    pookita19 Posts: 10 Member
    @BecomingBane I thought it was the same because when I Google nutritional facts for Seitan that is what comes up
  • DaddieCat
    DaddieCat Posts: 3,643 Member
    Wheat gluten is the protein stripped from wheat. It serves as a thickener, dough conditioner, and generally sticky as heck thing.

    Seitan is the end product of a process by which you make a dough from wheat gluten and prepare it in some fashion.

    They are the same in that one is made up largely of the other, but also other things, including a large quantity of water/broth.
  • pookita19
    pookita19 Posts: 10 Member
    @BecomingBane thanks a million.
    So I can trust the numbers being given to me by MFP recipe builder?
  • DaddieCat
    DaddieCat Posts: 3,643 Member
    I would trust them so far as you could verify the ingredients' nutrition facts. Are your ingredients accurate? If so, then trust away. If in doubt, I manually enter the ingredients myself and append my name to them so that I can find them later.
  • pookita19
    pookita19 Posts: 10 Member
    Thanks a million! I can now start logging my Seitan and not feel like I'm cheating myself
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