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Am I making this more difficult than it is?

STC02
STC02 Posts: 48 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
BEEF TERIYAKI KEBAB
Finest Beef strips with Japanese horseradish, soy sauce and star anis to provide a delicious taste!!

Great in the oven,under the grill or on the BBQ!!

Only 4.5% Fat, 20.6% Protein, 1.0% Total Carbohydrate, 123 kcal per 100g
MEDIUM .25 kg Serves 2

This is the description of a meal on my local butchers website.

Now when adding this as a new food into MFP am I right in saying that the % of nutrients given is the gram amount MFP ask for? If not how do I work that out? I was never good at maths as you can tell I imagine it is more simple than I am making out.
TIA

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,749 Member
    The % are the equivalent grams per 100g. So 4.5 gram fat per 100g, 20.6 grams protein per 100g, 1 gram carb per 100g.
  • STC02
    STC02 Posts: 48 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    The % are the equivalent grams per 100g. So 4.5 gram fat per 100g, 20.6 grams protein per 100g, 1 gram carb per 100g.

    Ah ok I see, so for a 112g serving I just divide the 20.6 g of Protein by 12 and add that onto the 100g so essentially it has 22.3g of protein per serving?
    I'm screenshotting this conversation for future reference! :D
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    You're not the one making this difficult. You can't really deduct anything from that "information". Food labels are supposed to have grams of protein, fat and carbohydrate per serving, and what a serving is, clearly stated in an unambiguous number of grams. This is just silly. (It doesn't mean that the food can't be good though.)
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,749 Member
    I divide the 20.6g by 100 (to get the protein per gram) then multiply it by 112 (the actual weight of the serve) and get 23.07g of protein :)
  • spoonpuppet
    spoonpuppet Posts: 15 Member
    STC02 wrote: »
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    The % are the equivalent grams per 100g. So 4.5 gram fat per 100g, 20.6 grams protein per 100g, 1 gram carb per 100g.

    Ah ok I see, so for a 112g serving I just divide the 20.6 g of Protein by 12 and add that onto the 100g so essentially it has 22.3g of protein per serving?
    I'm screenshotting this conversation for future reference! :D

    Not quite. If you have a 112g serving, multiply the nutritional values by 1.12.

    100g serving: mutiply by 1.00 (so the same)
    200g serving: multiply by 2.00
    150g serving: multiply by 1.50
    50g serving: multiply by 0.5
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