Food nutritional info help?

Phattest84
Phattest84 Posts: 9 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I have a container of dip that is confusing me. It's 250g net weight with a total of 215calories in the entire tub. The only ingredients listed are eggplant 40%, tahini, salt, garlic and citric acid. 40% eggplant is only 100g. So the remainding 150g is what? Tahini? If so there is no way the total calories for the tub could be only 215. Tahini is high calorie. Can someone enlighten me or am I reading this wrong? Surely salt, garlic and citric acid don't add much weight?

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,409 Member
    Are you sure it's not 215 calories PER SERVING?
  • Phattest84
    Phattest84 Posts: 9 Member
    edited March 2017
    Per serving is approx 21 calories. Roughly 85calories per 100g. 85x2.5=212.5 calories in entire tub
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    Water?
  • Phattest84
    Phattest84 Posts: 9 Member
    I did consider water but the dip is not particularly runny. Even if there's only 100g eggplant and 15g tahini, the remaining grams couldn't possibly be water could they?
  • Phattest84
    Phattest84 Posts: 9 Member
    No one can work this out?
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    Phattest84 wrote: »
    No one can work this out?

    Probably not.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Maybe it's 40% eggplant by calorie. Most labels just have a list, not a percentage. Is there a reason you don't trust the calorie information?

  • Phattest84
    Phattest84 Posts: 9 Member
    edited March 2017
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Maybe it's 40% eggplant by calorie. Most labels just have a list, not a percentage. Is there a reason you don't trust the calorie information?

    I don't trust it because the calories seem way too low for what it is. It's also delicious haha
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,202 Member
    edited March 2017
    Haahaa never trust anything low calorie AND delicious! I see your quandary. Eggplant is reasonably dense when you don't have the seedy bit - it might be whipped up with water and that could account for it?


    In other related eggplant funnies - I once bought eggplant at the fruit and veg store and said to my flatmate (who I was shopping with) "I'm going to make Babaganoush". The cashier, a girl of all of about 18, looked at me quite offended and said "what did you just say?" I repeated it and she said "But Babaganoush is MY word! I made it up as a pet name for my boyfriend!!"

    I had to google it on my phone before she would believe me that Babaganoush is very much a real word, and she'd been calling her boyfriend "Turkish Eggplant Dip" for more than a year.
  • Phattest84
    Phattest84 Posts: 9 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    Haahaa never trust anything low calorie AND delicious! I see your quandary. Eggplant is reasonably dense when you don't have the seedy bit - it might be whipped up with water and that could account for it?


    In other related eggplant funnies - I once bought eggplant at the fruit and veg store and said to my flatmate (who I was shopping with) "I'm going to make Babaganoush". The cashier, a girl of all of about 18, looked at me quite offended and said "what did you just say?" I repeated it and she said "But Babaganoush is MY word! I made it up as a pet name for my boyfriend!!"

    I had to google it on my phone before she would believe me that Babaganoush is very much a real word, and she'd been calling her boyfriend "Turkish Eggplant Dip" for more than a year.


    I think water might be the case. The same company also make their own tahini so the only other thing I can work out is maybe they remove the oil from their tahini.
    That has gotta be one of the funniest things I've ever read. Oh my god
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »

    I had to google it on my phone before she would believe me that Babaganoush is very much a real word, and she'd been calling her boyfriend "Turkish Eggplant Dip" for more than a year.

    I wonder if the boyfriend knew what it meant and what he thought of it. Lol!

  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    what is the name/brand of the dip?
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I'd say most definitely water.

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