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Looking up food

LoreA1960
LoreA1960 Posts: 108 Member
in Food and Nutrition
If you look up food items and there’s all different portion sizes for the same calories how do you know which one is right?

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,036 Member
    It depends on the food.

    For packaged food, I always look for an entry that corresponds to the info on the package. For whole foods, the USDA food database is a good source (legacy entries).

    For prepared foods, it's best to use the recipe builder or meal function with the individual ingredients. Or, if you didn't cook it yourself, I look for supermarket versions of the same meals, or well known restaurant chains that publish their nutritional data.
  • lessjess22
    lessjess22 Posts: 21 Member
    It takes guesswork. I tend to log what I consider the "worst case scenario" and that way if it has a lot of calories I'm accounting for it.

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