Accurate banana calories???
gabbyo23
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Can somebody PLEASE tell me how many cals no should log for one medium banana? When I search it, I'm seeing anything from 50-150.
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Google says that 118 g of banana (a "medium") has 105 calories.
When I want to check something, I search Google for "food name nutrition" and many results will give a nutrition box on the right side of the page.0 -
That's going to depend on how much it weighs11
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Bananas are 89 calories per 100 grams.7
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Just my 2 cents. Weigh your bananas, they vary so much in size that I don't know how anyone can say "I ate a medium banana". Also, weigh it peeled.7
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snowflake954 wrote: »Just my 2 cents. Weigh your bananas, they vary so much in size that I don't know how anyone can say "I ate a medium banana". Also, weigh it peeled.
Oh my goodness. If I have to do that I think I'll just give up bananas....not worth it! What big I want to plan my food ahead....I can't peel it in advance. Or if I want to take a banana out with me?
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I record 105 calories for a medium banana which measures 5-6" long. I agree the difference between the extra inch potentially is 4 1/2 calories but not enough to fret over!3
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Weigh your bananas. Judging by size is flawed. Wynterbourne is correct. Go by the entry that has that data, and scale from there.1
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OK, no more bananas for me. Don't have time for that.1
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Or you could weigh one at home, pick one which is the size you usually eat and just log each one as that.
That's what I do and works for me - every banana is a small banana to me ( I always buy small bananas as they fit in my lunchbox)
Obviously taking an average like this isn't as accurate - but IMO that doesn't matter.5 -
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Instead of giving up banana's why not do the following;
Purchase similar sized banana's, take one and weigh it (skin on), then peel it and weigh skin off - estimate the skin weight of the other similar sized banana's.
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If all else fails, enjoy the banana and just over-estimate the weight in your diary. Most bananas I eat are about 100 calories. If I didn't have access to a food scale, I'd probably put them at 125 calories and go on about my life. For the most part, fruits and veggies are not calorie dense (there are exceptions!) so you can't hurt yourself too badly with a single banana a day. Don't give up a food that's incredibly healthy for a minor glitch. Just stay on the safe side and over-estimate to cover yourself.7
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GuitarJerry wrote: »You don't have 5 seconds to weigh a banana?
Maybe you should quit then.
Well, if I took a banana to work or stuck one in my bag for when I was going to be running errands for hours, I wouldn't be able to weigh it. I always weigh my bananas at home but not when I take them out for a portable snack. I almost always find that my bananas are smaller than a medium banana so I'm happy now that I weigh them.
To the original poster, I like the suggestion of always buying small bananas and then sticking with that MFP entry.2 -
GuitarJerry wrote: »You don't have 5 seconds to weigh a banana?
Maybe you should quit then.
No actually I don't. But I'm not going to quit..but thanks for that motivational comment!!! Just don't have time to mess around weighing a banana....seems a bit extreme to me.6 -
GuitarJerry wrote: »You don't have 5 seconds to weigh a banana?
Maybe you should quit then.
No actually I don't. But I'm not going to quit..but thanks for that motivational comment!!! Just don't have time to mess around weighing a banana....seems a bit extreme to me.
I completely understand taking it out of the peeling is not right at all when you are not gonna consume it.
Just a thought, perhaps weight the whole banana before you put it in your bag.. Put the peeling after you eat it in a ziplog and bring it back home and weigh the peeling and take the difference, and then adjust your calories.
Or take the highest weight in grams for your medium banana and log it that way.3 -
When I'm taking a banana to go, I weigh it unpeeled, write the weight on a ziploc bag (which I use for the peel after I eat it) then weigh the peel when I get home to figure out actual calories. Only takes a few seconds all told.
Edited to add: I do the same with apples I take with me.3 -
No one is going to be able to give you an accurate amount because the weight is different for each one. The same is true for every other fruit and vegetable you eat.
It doesn't take long to weigh. I weigh mine everyday, and I'm a pretty busy person.1 -
I have to guesstimate on my bananas often, because I'm not eating them at home. So I compare the one I'm taking with me to one I eat at home, and add a few grams to the guessed weight for good measure.
Weighing everything is the most accurate aid to calorie counting. But it's not always feasible. Don't give up a food you enjoy just because you can't weigh it. Estimate high and eat the banana.2 -
GuitarJerry wrote: »You don't have 5 seconds to weigh a banana?
Maybe you should quit then.
No actually I don't. But I'm not going to quit..but thanks for that motivational comment!!! Just don't have time to mess around weighing a banana....seems a bit extreme to me.
Why not just weight the banana with the skin and log it like that. I know you won't eat the skin, but at least you're not guessing the calories and you'll know you're not going over your calories.3 -
I stick with the ballpark figure based on small <5", medium up to 7" etc where medium is about 100 cals. No, it isn't perfect but at the end of the day it is 1 banana or some days, maybe 2. I always weigh higher calorie items as it isn't as easy to eyeball say bread or potatoes or cream but I don't think it hinders me to go with averages for this kind of food.
I must also agree that I am not weighing then peeling then reweighing with the bananas. Life is too short.5 -
I agree with the comment of possibly overestimating a little to be safe, but is the extra 10 calories either way gonna make or break the bank if you don't weigh it? I don't think so. Enjoy the banana.3
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GuitarJerry wrote: »You don't have 5 seconds to weigh a banana?
Maybe you should quit then.
No actually I don't. But I'm not going to quit..but thanks for that motivational comment!!! Just don't have time to mess around weighing a banana....seems a bit extreme to me.
Why not just weight the banana with the skin and log it like that. I know you won't eat the skin, but at least you're not guessing the calories and you'll know you're not going over your calories.
Yeah, this. Or weigh the skin from a small banana and subtract that number from the skin-on weight. Or estimate once you have a sense.0 -
My bananas consistently weigh in as 59%-68% of their edible portion. For example, if I weighed a banana of 185g WITH the peel on, ate the banana, and weighed the peel, I'll have calculated that I've eaten between 109-126 g of the banana. If I'm packing a banana for later where my scale is not accessible, I just weigh it and log it around 65% of the weight.1
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OK, no more bananas for me. Don't have time for that.
Eat the banana. I always buy the smallest bananas I can find and log it as medium.
I always overestimate on things that I am not sure about.
I weighed things for about 2 days, and it was too much of a hassle for me.
I managed to lose over 1/2 of my current body weight and keep it off logging like this.
I would have quit long ago if I had to weigh every, single thing I ate & drank. Too extreme for me.
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Just weigh it with peel on. So you log 5 or 10 extra calories, so what? I find weighing faster and easier than fussing about with database trying to overestimate.3
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I'd personally not eat it as well because I think they're calorie dense little suckers for what they offer.
But if I were going too keep eating them and didn't want to weigh, I'd just consistently choose 120 calories.
By the way, has any one ever weighed a banana and had one come in over 120? I'm just curious.1 -
arditarose wrote: »I'd personally not eat it as well because I think they're calorie dense little suckers for what they offer.
But if I were going too keep eating them and didn't want to weigh, I'd just consistently choose 120 calories.
By the way, has any one ever weighed a banana and had one come in over 120? I'm just curious.
Over 120g? Yeah, I have a couple of times, which is why I try to get the bunches with the smallest bananas I can find..0 -
dragon_girl26 wrote: »arditarose wrote: »I'd personally not eat it as well because I think they're calorie dense little suckers for what they offer.
But if I were going too keep eating them and didn't want to weigh, I'd just consistently choose 120 calories.
By the way, has any one ever weighed a banana and had one come in over 120? I'm just curious.
Over 120g? Yeah, I have a couple of times, which is why I try to get the bunches with the smallest bananas I can find..
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On average: mine have weighed about 1100
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arditarose wrote: »I'd personally not eat it as well because I think they're calorie dense little suckers for what they offer.
But if I were going too keep eating them and didn't want to weigh, I'd just consistently choose 120 calories.
By the way, has any one ever weighed a banana and had one come in over 120? I'm just curious.
The biggest bananas I have ever had were about 120 grams and I thought they were gigantic. That's 107 calories. Most of my bananas are around 70-80 grams (60-70 calories) and the seasonal local ones I like the most are actually 50-60 grams (45-55 calories). I think 120 calories would be a very safe bet.0
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