Weigh fruit with skin?

anb3600 · July 2019

When I weigh a banana or grapefruit with the skin on, would that be correct for 100g on MyFitnessPal? For example I think 100g grapefruit is about 42 calories- is that with skin? That doesn’t seem right as half a grapefruit is about 160g so is it really about 70 calories for a half?

PiscesIntuition · July 2019

I only weigh what I’m eating. If I’m not eating the skin, I don’t weigh it with skin. Weigh what you eat then adjust the serving size for it here.

PAV8888 · July 2019

Usually it is for edible portion unless specified, i.e. apple raw with skin

Banana weight, specifically, would be without the peel.

JeBeBu · July 2019

I would weigh the grapefruit before eating & after to log the difference, since that is the edible portion. Bananas without peel, etc

LyndaBSS · July 2019

PiscesIntuition wrote: »

I only weigh what I’m eating. If I’m not eating the skin, I don’t weigh it with skin. Weigh what you eat then adjust the serving size for it here.

^^^^^ this

Why weigh what you're not going to eat?

kshama2001 · July 2019

Unfortunately, the "verified" green check marks in the MFP database are used for both user-created entries and admin-created entries that MFP pulled from the USDA database. To find admin entries for whole foods, I get the syntax from the USDA database and paste that into MFP.

Note: any MFP entry that includes "USDA" was user entered.

Yes, you just log the edible portion and 100 g is indeed 42 calories.

sgt1372 · July 2019

OP: Yo are overthinking it. The wt of the skin on fruit is not that big an issue unless you are,eating bushels of the stuff.

BarbaraHelen2013 · July 2019

sgt1372 wrote: »

OP: Yo are overthinking it. The wt of the skin on fruit is not that big an issue unless you are,eating bushels of the stuff.

Not sure I’d agree with that! I can think of quite a few fruit that would weigh significantly heavier if you weigh it with skin/peel/rind. I’m not about to weigh and log my portion of watermelon including the rind (which can be pretty thick and heavy) and happily just eat the water dense portion of an amount that fits my calories! Using your logic people would be shortchanging themselves quite a bit on melon, bananas, some oranges, pineapple, grapefruit, avocado to name a few off the top of my head!

So yes, peel, de-rind, skin before you weigh your edible portion!

Sharon_C · July 2019

sgt1372 wrote: »

OP: Yo are overthinking it. The wt of the skin on fruit is not that big an issue unless you are,eating bushels of the stuff.

I disagree. Especially if you are trying to lose those last 10lbs and every gram makes a difference. For instance, banana peels weigh roughly 50g (I eat a lot of bananas so I know this). That's an extra 49 calories a banana that you're logging but not eating. If you eat two bananas a day then your calorie consumption is going to be over by 100 grams. Times seven days a week and you're logging 700 calories that you're not eating.

Weigh fruit with skin?

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