How to best enter calories for grapefruit?

Ibystron
Ibystron Posts: 10 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hi all,
I have been wondering how to enter calories for items such as grapefruit, banana or oranges? You only eat the inside not the Peel.
I have a scale so I'm trying to be more accurate.
My grapefruit half weighted 230 grams. I ate the insides and after, I weighed only the Peel (60 grams).
Now in my diary, do I put 230 grams or 160 grams?
Curious to hear how others handle this! Thanks.

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  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    170 grams. But I usually don’t bother with subtracting the peels, to me, it is not that important to be so precise. Not saying you shouldn’t. Weighing things gets you good at eyeballing.
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    Only weigh the edible portion
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,001 Member
    I weigh the whole grapefruit (or orange or whatever), eat the part I want, then weigh the stuff I'll be discarding/composting, subtract, and log the amount eaten.
  • KNoceros
    KNoceros Posts: 326 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    I weigh the whole grapefruit (or orange or whatever), eat the part I want, then weigh the stuff I'll be discarding/composting, subtract, and log the amount eaten.

    This. Even if it means bagging up the banana peel / apple core from my packed lunch at work and taking it home again to weigh.
  • yndiragarcafit1006
    yndiragarcafit1006 Posts: 1 Member
    solo pesa lo que te vas a comer o procura buscar la información de la fruta en peso con cascara, pero lo que realmente te aporta es su interior.
  • Ibystron
    Ibystron Posts: 10 Member
    edited February 2021
    Thanks everyone! I appreciate the replies and glad to hear I'm not the only one weighing the peels, etc. For a moment I thought I was doing overkill.
  • vanmep
    vanmep Posts: 410 Member
    I weigh the fruit and subtract about 25% and that’s close enough for me. I don’t want to haul peels home from work

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