Are Ribs More Protein or More Fat?
darreneatschicken
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I ate a half rack of baby back ribs from one of my favourite restaurants tonight and I was wondering: are ribs more protein or more fat?
According to another restaurant in my area, a half rack of baby back ribs is 610 calories, 33 fat, and 52 protein (more protein than fat).
But if you go onto the USDA database, 100 grams of "beef, rib, back ribs, bone-in, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 0" fat, choice, cooked, braised" is 372 calories, 31 fat, and 23 protein (more fat than protein).
According to another restaurant in my area, a half rack of baby back ribs is 610 calories, 33 fat, and 52 protein (more protein than fat).
But if you go onto the USDA database, 100 grams of "beef, rib, back ribs, bone-in, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 0" fat, choice, cooked, braised" is 372 calories, 31 fat, and 23 protein (more fat than protein).
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On my body they are definitely more fat.
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asianambition wrote: »I ate a half rack of baby back ribs from one of my favourite restaurants tonight and I was wondering: are ribs more protein or more fat?
According to another restaurant in my area, a half rack of baby back ribs is 610 calories, 33 fat, and 52 protein (more protein than fat).
But if you go onto the USDA database, 100 grams of "beef, rib, back ribs, bone-in, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 0" fat, choice, cooked, braised" is 372 calories, 31 fat, and 23 protein (more fat than protein).
Did they just put 100 calories worth of marinade/sauce on it? Seems slightly low to be honest.1 -
asianambition wrote: »I ate a half rack of baby back ribs from one of my favourite restaurants tonight and I was wondering: are ribs more protein or more fat?
According to another restaurant in my area, a half rack of baby back ribs is 610 calories, 33 fat, and 52 protein (more protein than fat).
But if you go onto the USDA database, 100 grams of "beef, rib, back ribs, bone-in, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 0" fat, choice, cooked, braised" is 372 calories, 31 fat, and 23 protein (more fat than protein).
Did they just put 100 calories worth of marinade/sauce on it? Seems slightly low to be honest.
I'm not sure... The restaurant that I was referring to is called Swiss Chalet.
There's another restaurant in my area called White Spot, and their half rack of ribs is 999 calories, 81 fat, and 65 protein (more fat than protein). So there's quite a lot of variation between those two restaurants.
I might just go with the Swiss Chalet entry though, since the ribs that I ate were pretty lean (not much meat) and I'm bulking anyways
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Or I could probably also go with the USDA entry that I was referring to above, but instead of "choice," use "select," as the protein and fat are almost the same in that entry (100 grams = 341 calories, 27 fat, 26 protein).0
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You are not eating the bones so they don't matter. Both of your sources are giving you the same answer. Without sauce, pork ribs of any variety are about 2.5 to 3 calories per gram of what you eat. A half a slab here would be about 8oz of meat which would get you to about 600 or so calories. Plus, the sauce which cannot be ignored. My favorite BBQ place has a fairly low calories sauce. Not all do. Molasses and butter are sometimes major components and both are calorie dense.1
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How many grams of sauce do you think they put on a rack of ribs? My ribs today weighed 252 grams (just the meat). I'm trying to determine how much of that 252 grams was sauce.0
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asianambition wrote: »How many grams of sauce do you think they put on a rack of ribs? My ribs today weighed 252 grams (just the meat). I'm trying to determine how much of that 252 grams was sauce.
In restaurants I've worked, we used a two ounce ladle for a rack of baby back ribs. Why don't you just use an entry that has the sauce? You're not going to get a very good estimate on sauce unless the restaurant is listed online with its nutrition info. The sauce could be any recipe.
You'll have to start using your food scale at home to be able to guess on restaurant food. That's how you learn to eyeball stuff.
We can't be much help without seeing them.5 -
Babyback ribs aren't beef they're pork which is the international symbol for fat :-) 2
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Babyback ribs aren't beef they're pork which is the international symbol for fat :-)
I was also thinking about that.
"Why did they look up beef ribs in the usda databank when they were eating pork."
If swiss chalet has a nutritional info list, just go with that, you're never going to be 100% exact when it comes to take out. Trying to figure out down to the gram how much of that weight was sauce is just making the whole process over complicated.3 -
asianambition wrote: »I ate a half rack of baby back ribs from one of my favourite restaurants tonight and I was wondering: are ribs more protein or more fat?
According to another restaurant in my area, a half rack of baby back ribs is 610 calories, 33 fat, and 52 protein (more protein than fat).
But if you go onto the USDA database, 100 grams of "beef, rib, back ribs, bone-in, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 0" fat, choice, cooked, braised" is 372 calories, 31 fat, and 23 protein (more fat than protein).
If you're eating a half rack of babyback ribs, why are you comparing that to a USDA entry for beef ribs? Also, a half rack of babyback ribs is going to be more than 100 grams of meat...100 grams is around 3.5 ounces.1 -
KrissCanDoThis wrote: »Babyback ribs aren't beef they're pork which is the international symbol for fat :-)
I was also thinking about that.
"Why did they look up beef ribs in the usda databank when they were eating pork."
If swiss chalet has a nutritional info list, just go with that, you're never going to be 100% exact when it comes to take out. Trying to figure out down to the gram how much of that weight was sauce is just making the whole process over complicated.
Waving at Kriss...!
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Oh my god. You guys are right. I don't know what was going through my head. I just searched "cooked baby back ribs" in the USDA database, and it didn't come up with any pork entries, so I automatically thought that ribs were beef. Lol I feel so stupid now.
There's an entry called: Pork, fresh, loin, country-style ribs, separable lean and fat, cooked, braised.
Should I use that entry and then try to estimate how many grams of bbq sauce they used, or just use the Swiss Chalet entry?
Restaurants only offer takeout and delivery now, so it's very easy to weigh the food.1 -
Until you know all the ingredients and the pre-cooked weight it's going to be tough to accurately estimate the cals. If you're going to eat meat from outside then chicken or fish are your best bet as they're leaner0
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I'm just going to use the Swiss Chalet entry. I took a look, and country-style ribs are different from baby-back ribs. USDA doesn't have an entry for pork baby-back ribs
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asianambition wrote: »Oh my god. You guys are right. I don't know what was going through my head. I just searched "cooked baby back ribs" in the USDA database, and it didn't come up with any pork entries, so I automatically thought that ribs were beef. Lol I feel so stupid now.
There's an entry called: Pork, fresh, loin, country-style ribs, separable lean and fat, cooked, braised.
Should I use that entry and then try to estimate how many grams of bbq sauce they used, or just use the Swiss Chalet entry?
Restaurants only offer takeout and delivery now, so it's very easy to weigh the food.
country style ribs are St. Louis Ribs and not the same thing as baby back at all...they're going to contain far more meat protein as well as fat. Just use the entry for BB ribs you found from a comp restaurant. None of this is an exact science. Don't overthink *kitten*...3 -
cmriverside wrote: »KrissCanDoThis wrote: »Babyback ribs aren't beef they're pork which is the international symbol for fat :-)
I was also thinking about that.
"Why did they look up beef ribs in the usda databank when they were eating pork."
If swiss chalet has a nutritional info list, just go with that, you're never going to be 100% exact when it comes to take out. Trying to figure out down to the gram how much of that weight was sauce is just making the whole process over complicated.
Waving at Kriss...!
Hello darling! I missed you 🥰0 -
[quote="cwolfman13;c-44889299"]country style ribs are St. Louis Ribs and not the same thing as baby back at all...they're going to contain far more meat protein as well as fat. [/quote]
Country style ribs are not the same as St. Louis ribs (as least not in my neck of the woods). St. Louis ribs are spareribs that are trimmed a lot more (see the pic below).
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