Measuring fruits

I would not weigh any fruit with the peel/skin/ stone in it if I were not intending to eat it all.

Since I do not eat banana peel, I do not count that weight.

What I did once was weigh an average size banana (now I know people will say there is big difference between banana sizes but I know what size is the average of what I eat) without the peel.

If I eat a banana now I just log it as that amount - if I were to eat a particularly large one I might log it as one and a half.

This method might not be accurate enough for some people - but law of averages works for me.

KrissFlavored wrote: »

TayaCurragh wrote: »

I'm so glad you asked this, I've been wondering myself for bananas. I have tried weighing mine but they seem far too high in calories. Next time I may try weighing it before and then the peel after and subtracting the peel weight, I do this with chicken on the bone so I guess it's the same principle.

I'm confused by this... if you're going to eat the banana, cant you just take it out of the peel and weigh it? Why go through the hassle of weighing the peel?

I'm not the PP, but most of the time I'd do the version you're questioning: Weigh the peel after.

It's just logistics. If I am having a banana snack, if I weigh it with the peel, and then weigh the peel, I don't have to ook up a plate for the peeled banana, or ook up the scale weighing a peeled one and have to wipe it. I'd weigh the banana with peel (not sticky icky), peel and eat the banana out of hand, fold up the peel so the skin is tidily on the outside, weigh the peel, and subtract. Even moreso, if I'm (say) putting the banana in my lunch to take to work or something, so I don't have to put the peeled banana in a container in my lunch bag (yes, I might take the peel home just to weigh it, in my now empty sandwich-box, say).

Some will find it easier to peel and weigh, some will find it easier to weigh unpeeled then weigh the peel. It's just whatever's convenient.