How do you measure calories in clams?

xYuKi_HiMe_SaMa7 · December 2016

I steamed 150g of small clams, removed the meat from the shell, the clam meat weighed 10g, obviously not what I was expecting so I'm cooking more..

How do I enter the calories to my food diary, do I use the shell weight or the cooked meat weight?

cmriverside · December 2016

If the entries in the database are for raw, in shell - they will say that. If you weighed out 150g, then use 150g.

I wouldn't worry about it too much, clams are great protein and low calorie.

xYuKi_HiMe_SaMa7 · December 2016

I think these clams must be very high calorie if 150g in shell became 10g out of shell.
I cooked a further 300g of clams and got 25g of meat, so in total 450g in shell leads to 35g of clam meat.
I'm mainly worried from looking at clam nutrition online and some of the entries in the database because the calories seem so high..