Worst database entries?
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newheavensearth wrote: »SkimpyMrsCarter wrote: »
I had boneless, skinless grilled chicken breast tonight. I searched "USDA chicken breast boneless skinless grilled" and got a value of 43 calories an ounce. I noticed the packaging said 4 oz=120 calories, but that was for raw and I don't weigh out raw chicken breast unless it's going in a recipe raw. USDA entries will generally be the most reliable with meat & fresh produce.
You asked me this before about a cut of chicken I used. It was a premeasured cut of chicken breast that was 4 oz raw with brine. So it would have less than 43 calories per ounce because part of the weight was water. So 120 calories might make sense if you account for 3 oz meat and 1 oz water.
Absolutely. And then if you weigh cooked, once the water is cooked out, 4 oz of just meat would have a higher calorie count.
No. It was a 3oz piece of meat raw to begin with, which shrank after cooking. Sorry if I didn't clarify.0 -
newheavensearth wrote: »newheavensearth wrote: »SkimpyMrsCarter wrote: »
I had boneless, skinless grilled chicken breast tonight. I searched "USDA chicken breast boneless skinless grilled" and got a value of 43 calories an ounce. I noticed the packaging said 4 oz=120 calories, but that was for raw and I don't weigh out raw chicken breast unless it's going in a recipe raw. USDA entries will generally be the most reliable with meat & fresh produce.
You asked me this before about a cut of chicken I used. It was a premeasured cut of chicken breast that was 4 oz raw with brine. So it would have less than 43 calories per ounce because part of the weight was water. So 120 calories might make sense if you account for 3 oz meat and 1 oz water.
Absolutely. And then if you weigh cooked, once the water is cooked out, 4 oz of just meat would have a higher calorie count.
No. It was a 3oz piece of meat raw to begin with, which shrank after cooking. Sorry if I didn't clarify.
Lol... no, I got it! I was just comparing 4 oz of raw vs 4 oz of cooked1 -
Apparently there are more calories in a quarter cup than 5 gallons.
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Relevant to this topic discussion: 16 Hilarious foods in MyFitnessPal database
My favorite is the second one, 1 cup of Everything. Calories? 117,548,999,999,999,992,258,692,813,676,615,827,456
Consume that one with caution, obviously.
ETA: The comments on the blog are golden, too8 -
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newheavensearth wrote: »When I tried to help someone learn to log their food here they couldn't understand that to be accurate they had to weigh, measure, and log each food item separately. So they tried to beat the system by logging a Mc Donalds two cheeseburger extra value meal ( at least 1000 plus soda) as a generic "burger and fries" entry for only a few hundred calories.
I once had someone tell me in all earnestness that they logged their bananas as small - 90 calories and then bought the largest bananas they could so they'd get more banana for the same number of calories.35 -
diannethegeek wrote: »newheavensearth wrote: »When I tried to help someone learn to log their food here they couldn't understand that to be accurate they had to weigh, measure, and log each food item separately. So they tried to beat the system by logging a Mc Donalds two cheeseburger extra value meal ( at least 1000 plus soda) as a generic "burger and fries" entry for only a few hundred calories.
I once had someone tell me in all earnestness that they logged their bananas as small - 90 calories and then bought the largest bananas they could so they'd get more banana for the same number of calories.
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Anytime I build a recipe with banana in it, the default banana it gives me is well over 1000 calories for one... seems legit.3
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meganridenour wrote: »Anytime I build a recipe with banana in it, the default banana it gives me is well over 1000 calories for one... seems legit.
The recipe builder is a thread in itself. I got several thousand calories for dried basil the other day, and you can't enter the generic "olive oil" or you get "chicken breast sauteed in olive oil".1 -
meganridenour wrote: »Anytime I build a recipe with banana in it, the default banana it gives me is well over 1000 calories for one... seems legit.
How big was your banana?6 -
Yeah. So much baloney. When I'm in doubt, I google the item and compare it to the entries. Still not infallible, but better than nothing. Also if I can find a USDA entry that helps.1
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also, KEKs? AHAHAHA! How many Shadilays is that worth?1
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SkimpyMrsCarter wrote: »
Google says it's 162 if no skin and is baked.1 -
MsChucktowski wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »There are entries for human flesh
The entry for human flesh is way off, so I corrected it:
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Wish I could figure out how to post a picture. When I searched cream cheese, 2 T was over 7,000 calories. Wtf?1
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MsChucktowski wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »There are entries for human flesh
The entry for human flesh is way off, so I corrected it:
Much more reasonable serving size.5 -
MsChucktowski wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »There are entries for human flesh
The entry for human flesh is way off, so I corrected it:
Much more reasonable serving size.
Yeah, eating an entire human in one sitting is a big ask. I may be a monster, but I'm not supernatural. Plus, originally the entry had no calories either. IIFYM and all that, you know.5 -
"To calculate the calories of a human being, Cole looked at several studies done in the 1940s and ‘50s that analyzed the protein and fat content of different parts of the human body. From that information, he could calculate how many calories you get from a one-pound heart (650), a four-pound liver (2,569), and three pounds of nerve tissue (2,001). After combining all organs together, you can basically slap a nutritional label on a human corpse that reads: 125,822 calories. At least, within the constraints of those 1940s and ‘50s studies. (They analyzed a total of four men, ranging from 35 to 60 years old, and weighing an average of 145 pounds, so Cole’s caloric count only applies to male Homo sapiens with those parameters.)"
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In light of PM's I've received, I want to state that I'm not a cannibal nor a Satanist. I have never eaten human flesh. To clarify, the numbers I used were copied directly from the USDA listing for pork chops on bone. I used that because Victorian-era reports claimed that cannibal tribes of the South Pacific called human meat "long pig", allegedly because meat from humans is similar to pork. I presumed that smilies in my posts would imply humor and sarcasm, but I was mistaken. I apologize for any offense and confusion. Thank you.30
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