Question grams vs milliliter?

marm1962
marm1962 Posts: 950 Member
edited June 2016 in Food and Nutrition
Case in point - There are at least 4 entries for Wegman's All Natural Creamy Peanut Butter, but NONE of them list grams...yes I know I could make another entry....However milliliter is listed and supposedly a milliliter and a gram are equal weights of measurement, but when I put in 32 milliliter of peanut butter it says it's 216 calories, but the container says 32 grams is 200 calories...soooo....what to do. Do I make yet another entry to include grams or do I go by the milliliter?

PS: I usually just use the 2 tbsp entry even though I measure...but if I have problems later everyone is gonna say..."you need to weigh and I see tbsp entries" I want to show that I weigh everything

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  • fr33sia12
    fr33sia12 Posts: 1,258 Member
    edited June 2016
    If it were me I'd add it myself, I add all my foods myself so I know they're as accurate as they can be. Foods in the database can be altered without you even knowing or entered incorrectly, so this is why I enter everything I use myself and don't share it with the database.
  • kuranda10
    kuranda10 Posts: 593 Member
    I found this with the lasagna entries (don't ask)

    Instead of grams, ounces, or even pounds, every entry had it measured in CUPS. Who measures lasanga by the cup?
  • crabbybrianna
    crabbybrianna Posts: 344 Member
    Millilitres and grams are only the same weight if you're measuring water. I'd just make another entry.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,234 Member
    milliliters and grams are not equivalent unless it is water. It's a stupid glitch that the geniuses playing with the database caused and are refusing to fix.

    but 10g and 10ml of peanut butter are not going to be equivalent. Make a new entry, and use it to weigh solids. Forget the ml measurements.
  • Queenmunchy
    Queenmunchy Posts: 3,380 Member
    You can edit the entries so they have grams, particularly if they're correct. I've done that with salad dressing showing as tablespoons and just added the grams with (2T) in the title.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited June 2016
    kuranda10 wrote: »
    I found this with the lasagna entries (don't ask)

    Instead of grams, ounces, or even pounds, every entry had it measured in CUPS. Who measures lasanga by the cup?

    That's crazy (and hilarious), but any lasagna entry in the database would be unreliable anyway, since every lasagna is individual. For something like that you have to create your own recipe.
  • LEichentuch
    LEichentuch Posts: 6 Member
    Yeah, as people above stated, mililiter is a measurement of volume and gram is a measurement of weight. for water at room temperature 1g = 1ml, but that is all. so you wanna use ml for liquids and g for solids. mixing them up messes up everything.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    If you have 10g of it, just enter 10/32 (0.31) of a serving... It just take a bit of math, but as long as you have the nutrition label, it's not a huge deal. My calculator is bookmarked on my computer for that reason, lol.

    Or yeah, edit or make your own entry.

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