Potato calories
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sarajohanssoon
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Okay so when I google calories in potatos most sites say a small potato contains about 100 calories. But when I weigh my medium size potatoes they weigh about 60 grams, and 100g of boiled potato contains about 85 calories according to what I find, which would make them half the calories. Am I missing something, or do people just eat really large potatoes? I'm low key freaking out and I don't understand
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that's one reason I don't use entries for "1 small" or "1 medium" anything. I find a reliable entry for 100g of the food in question, weight the item, and log it precisely. I mean, what is a "small" anything? It's all relative.3
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Yeah that's what I do too, but it just seems really strange that it differs so much. What I would say is a medium potato weighs 60 grams. Is it possible I'm missing something crucial?0
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This is where the USDA website comes in quite handy https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list
The potatoes I buy are usually closer to 180g (Rooster Baking Potatoes) for a Medium-Sized one, larger ones can be as much as 300g
This is the entry for white potatoes, raw with skin
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A 60 gram potato would be a ridiculously small potato, in my opinion. We all have our own idea of what constitutes small, medium, or large items, which is why using weight is so much more accurate. To me, a medium potato would be about 150 grams, which is more than 100 calories.4
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Here's reference images. This one weighs 65 grams according to my scale. Do you think it's broken? I tried weighing 100ml of water, which weighs 100g as it should0 -
No that's just a teeny tiny potato, your scale is most likely fine.3
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tinkerbellang83 wrote: »No that's just a teeny tiny potato, your scale is most likely fine.
This! Veeeery small, adorable potato.3 -
also, there are hundreds of varieties of potato, which vary in size, texture, and colour. Depending on what you want to make can determine the best potato for the job. The one pictured looks like it needs a friend on your plate, too lonely!1
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tinkerbellang83 wrote: »No that's just a teeny tiny potato, your scale is most likely fine.
[quote="This! Veeeery small, adorable potato. [/quote]
Oh is it really? I'd call it medium, it's about the size of an egg (which of course can also be different sizes). Maybe it's different here in Sweden than other countries. Anyways, thanks for the answer. I feel a bit calmer haha
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sarajohanssoon wrote: »Maybe it's different here in Sweden than other countries.
very likely - it will depend on what potato varieties are normally grown and sold there. Here in the UK we get new potatoes much smaller than that one, several served on the plate. We also get massive ones sold as Baking Potatoes which are cooked for quite a long time and served in their skin. Some of the ones I've had were so big they could easily be cut in two and serve both me and the husband.
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Don't forget to account for the factr that you may be eating your potatoes peeled. My usualy potato serving is 140-150 grams raw weight (I don't peel or fry mine)0
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Try using “fingerling potato” - you are likely to find that label more accurately reflects your potatoes of choice.0
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sarajohanssoon wrote: »
Oh is it really? I'd call it medium, it's about the size of an egg (which of course can also be different sizes). Maybe it's different here in Sweden than other countries. Anyways, thanks for the answer. I feel a bit calmer haha
I live in Ireland and am from the UK, we do have smaller potatoes but they would be "New" or "Baby" potatoes (around 20-60g), when I say potato, I am normally talking about the kinds used for chips, roasting or baking which are the larger kinds.
New Potatoes
Normal Potatoes
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This thread is one of the many reasons I scratch my head when people complain about weighing food being tedious. It takes less time than trying to match your idea of medium with the MFP user that only used the app for half a minute and created an entry.13
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I can't even read this stuff above. My head would explode. Get a scale for crying our loud. They cost $15.0
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weigh raw and use an entry for raw weight calories
Now cook however and it doesn't matter how the water weight changes.
If only eating a portion of the finished dish - weigh when finished for total weight (which has no bearing on the entry used) and then weigh your portion.
Now you have % eaten.
Apply that to the # of servings you are using for the raw weight entry.1 -
wilson10102018 wrote: »I can't even read this stuff above. My head would explode. Get a scale for crying our loud. They cost $15.
I do have a scale? I was just thinking it might not be accurate0 -
sytchequeen wrote: »sarajohanssoon wrote: »Maybe it's different here in Sweden than other countries.
very likely - it will depend on what potato varieties are normally grown and sold there. Here in the UK we get new potatoes much smaller than that one, several served on the plate. We also get massive ones sold as Baking Potatoes which are cooked for quite a long time and served in their skin. Some of the ones I've had were so big they could easily be cut in two and serve both me and the husband.
Yeah -- when people talk about "medium potato," I tend to assume they mean something like a Yukon Gold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukon_Gold_potato
Those are common here and I'd normally chop up (with skin on), roast, and then eat, but I'd eat just one potato.
The one pictured is a smaller variety, which are common here too (there are so many different kinds of potatoes of various sizes), but I don't think they are what is meant since more than one are typically eaten, at least here.
Estimates for "medium" for a food that comes in so many different sizes are useless.0 -
sarajohanssoon wrote: »tinkerbellang83 wrote: »No that's just a teeny tiny potato, your scale is most likely fine.
[quote="This! Veeeery small, adorable potato.
Oh is it really? I'd call it medium, it's about the size of an egg (which of course can also be different sizes). Maybe it's different here in Sweden than other countries. Anyways, thanks for the answer. I feel a bit calmer haha
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Also in Europe and for me that would seem roughly "medium" too. I don't take a baking potato as the standard potato size.0 -
Do you all not have larger non baking potatoes too?
I think medium refers to a non baking potato, but something like the Yukon Gold I mentioned above.0
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