How many grams of broth did I consume?

darreneatschicken
darreneatschicken Posts: 669 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Today, I ordered a bowl of udon from the sushi restaurant. I weighed the entire bowl and then after I ate it, I weighed the bowl with the leftover soup in it and subtracted that number from the original weight. The end result was 543 grams. But obviously, I didn't consume 543 grams of udon, because the udon must've soaked in some of the soup. So how many grams of soup do you guys think was in the 543 grams?

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  • harper16
    harper16 Posts: 2,564 Member
    edited June 2020
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    If you are planning to eat all the soup does it really matter how many grams of broth you did or didn't eat?
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    Broth does not have much calories, I wouldn’t bother trying to figure out its calorie content. Call it a wash.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Broth is very low calorie. I would just do a rough estimate and call it a day.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,311 Member
    Perhaps I have misunderstood the question - but seems to me the issue is not how much broth per se as broth has very few calories, he is not so bothered about accounting for them - but how much the broth would of weighed to work out how much of the udon he ate - ie the total minus the broth

    Udon are thick wheat noodles so they would have significant calories.

    However i think as with all takeaways- make a reasonable estimate and just log it as that.

  • freda666
    freda666 Posts: 338 Member
    I have an easy solution to these kinds of questions - how many calories in a spray of oil, a glug of soy sauce or a couple of glasses of no added sugar squash - and that is to walk at least a couple of miles every day, more if poss, and not "eat back the calories".

    Those calories burned then soak up the little odds and sods of consumption that are too fiddly to log.

    How I deal with it anyway.
  • darreneatschicken
    darreneatschicken Posts: 669 Member
    paperpudding wrote: »
    Perhaps I have misunderstood the question - but seems to me the issue is not how much broth per se as broth has very few calories, he is not so bothered about accounting for them - but how much the broth would of weighed to work out how much of the udon he ate - ie the total minus the broth

    Udon are thick wheat noodles so they would have significant calories.

    However i think as with all takeaways- make a reasonable estimate and just log it as that.

    You're right: I was trying to figure out how much udon I ate by subtracting the weight of the broth from the weight of the udon + the broth.

    Anyways, I just ended up estimating 200 grams of broth, so around 343 grams of udon which came up to 500 calories and 100 carbs.
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    If I ate 543g udon and left all the stock in the bowl, I would log it as 543g cooked udon.
    If you ate stock + udon and are trying to guess how much of each, it would be hard for others to guess that. I assume 1c stock weighs 240g, so I’d guess based on the volume of liquid consumed.
  • sarahkatzenelson452
    sarahkatzenelson452 Posts: 37 Member
    Some restaurants have the composition of the plate listed somewhere. Chains often have it on their internet menus.
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