ground beef Calories

Noxxys
Noxxys Posts: 26 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
when logging ground beef do you count all the calories as the package says raw? so in my case i just cooked up some angus round ground which is 85% lean and 15% fat for a 112g raw serving is 240 calories but in the cooking process a lot of that fat is cooked off and drained. so should i log that 240 cals or should i try to find a entry for that or could someone show me the correct entry for these type of situations thanks.

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  • DaintyWhisper
    DaintyWhisper Posts: 221 Member
    edited November 2018
    I would personally log the entire amount of calories and just know that you probably had a little less because you drained the meat. There's really no way of pinpointing the exact amount of calories you lost while draining. There are a few websites with some information about the subject that I found interesting! You could try searching the database for "blotted ground beef 85%" and see if you want to use any of those entries. None will be 100% accurate, which is why I'd just go with the raw calories.
    https://www.bestfoodfacts.org/lean-to-fat-ratio/
    https://www.livestrong.com/article/436673-how-to-cook-pork-shank/?ajax=1&is=1
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    Go to the USDA database and find the cooking method closest to what you used and plug that into MFP. For example, Beef, ground, 85% lean meat / 15% fat, patty, cooked, pan-broiled.

    However, you'd need the weight of the cooked beef.
  • Noxxys
    Noxxys Posts: 26 Member
    ah thank you very much for that, just what i was looking for.
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