How do you count fruit?

JRMcCaghren
JRMcCaghren Posts: 114
edited October 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I'm kind of a perfectionist when it comes to measuring my food, so I weigh most items on the scale instead of measuring them in a cup. Fruit was one exception. I would put "one large peach" or "one medium apple" in my diary. Recently, I started weighing them, and what I considered a medium apple was more calories by weight than a large apple. And the peach I had was over 50 calories more than a large peach. This made me realize that the definition of medium/large is very ambiguous. Just wanting to let people know, weighing is the most accurate way to measure food, and if you're around your goal weight, those extra 50 calories can make a difference.

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  • ♥_Ellybean_♥
    ♥_Ellybean_♥ Posts: 1,646 Member
    I weigh them, it's more accurate. I found the apples I was eating was over 200 grams on a scale which is more than a medium but less than a large. I switched to 2 small apples a day weighing on average 130g and it works well.
  • UponThisRock
    UponThisRock Posts: 4,519 Member
    nutritiondata.com should have info on 100g servings
  • Just1forMe
    Just1forMe Posts: 624 Member
    I agree 100%....I'm the same way, and I always weigh my fruit (& most everything else!).
  • SDkitty
    SDkitty Posts: 446 Member
    Thanks for the advice, I have such a difficult time with fresh fruit because I'm not sure where to find accurate data. For instance I love pomegranate arils but recently saw some prepackaged pomwonderful arils that claimed to have way more calories than what I had found prior in my searches.
  • thirtyandthriving
    thirtyandthriving Posts: 613 Member
    I weigh almost everything. I measure things that are more liquid, drinks, yogurt peanut butter- or when baking.
  • magdamccraven
    magdamccraven Posts: 75 Member
    Thanks for this! I have been eyeing it up as you used to. I am probably going over calories daily without knowing it.
  • luppic8
    luppic8 Posts: 580 Member
    Very interesting! I was actually considering buying a food scale this week...so guess what I am doing tonight! Thanks for the helpful information.
  • Lizmhoughton
    Lizmhoughton Posts: 92 Member
    I wouldn't weigh the entire fruit. Make sure your cut it first. You don't want the extra weight of the core or seeds? I don't weigh anything, I figure the guess for what's medium and such is close enough. I try to be under my calories anyway just for things like that. Not sure if you were only weighing the parts you were going to eat, but if not maybe the extra weight was from the parts you can't eat?
  • akgrl1020
    akgrl1020 Posts: 179
    Yup, I weigh everything. It is most accurate!
  • bcampbell54
    bcampbell54 Posts: 932 Member
    Weighing is good, but from my carbohydrate "serving-counting" days, I know that one serving of most fruit is about the size of a Tennis ball. I never smooshed a banana into a sphere; I always took it on faith that a half-banana was one serving as well!
  • ♥_Ellybean_♥
    ♥_Ellybean_♥ Posts: 1,646 Member
    Thanks for the advice, I have such a difficult time with fresh fruit because I'm not sure where to find accurate data. For instance I love pomegranate arils but recently saw some prepackaged pomwonderful arils that claimed to have way more calories than what I had found prior in my searches.

    Prepackaged usually mean additives
  • agthorn
    agthorn Posts: 1,844 Member
    I wouldn't weigh the entire fruit. Make sure your cut it first. You don't want the extra weight of the core or seeds? I don't weigh anything, I figure the guess for what's medium and such is close enough. I try to be under my calories anyway just for things like that. Not sure if you were only weighing the parts you were going to eat, but if not maybe the extra weight was from the parts you can't eat?
    Right, that was my thought too. An apple may weigh 200g but maybe you only eat 130g of it?
  • XXXMinnieXXX
    XXXMinnieXXX Posts: 3,459 Member
    I wouldn't weigh the entire fruit. Make sure your cut it first. You don't want the extra weight of the core or seeds? I don't weigh anything, I figure the guess for what's medium and such is close enough. I try to be under my calories anyway just for things like that. Not sure if you were only weighing the parts you were going to eat, but if not maybe the extra weight was from the parts you can't eat?
    this... i just don't have time to weigh everything i take to work. always weigh out dinner ingredients though. I just stay under a hundred or 2 when possible to make up for an little differences x
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    I wouldn't weigh the entire fruit. Make sure your cut it first. You don't want the extra weight of the core or seeds? I don't weigh anything, I figure the guess for what's medium and such is close enough. I try to be under my calories anyway just for things like that. Not sure if you were only weighing the parts you were going to eat, but if not maybe the extra weight was from the parts you can't eat?
    But when you look up the calories of a 200 gram fruit, was that already taken into account?
  • LisaMarieee
    LisaMarieee Posts: 176 Member
    I wouldn't weigh the entire fruit. Make sure your cut it first. You don't want the extra weight of the core or seeds? I don't weigh anything, I figure the guess for what's medium and such is close enough. I try to be under my calories anyway just for things like that. Not sure if you were only weighing the parts you were going to eat, but if not maybe the extra weight was from the parts you can't eat?
    But when you look up the calories of a 200 gram fruit, was that already taken into account?
    No. It would be for 200g of edible portion.
  • rockerbabyy
    rockerbabyy Posts: 2,258 Member
    i always weight my fruit and veggies. sometimes i cut the fruit up first, sometimes i weight, eat, then reweigh the inedible portion
  • rockerbabyy
    rockerbabyy Posts: 2,258 Member
    Thanks for the advice, I have such a difficult time with fresh fruit because I'm not sure where to find accurate data. For instance I love pomegranate arils but recently saw some prepackaged pomwonderful arils that claimed to have way more calories than what I had found prior in my searches.
    i usually go to calorieking.com to check on fresh produce and stuff if i cant find an entry i like here
  • Moonbyebye
    Moonbyebye Posts: 180 Member
    I weigh my food. Everyone's got their own idea of what 1 large apple is. Weighing is the safest/most accurate way.
  • SDkitty
    SDkitty Posts: 446 Member
    nutritiondata.com should have info on 100g servings

    Out of curiosity has anyone used the Daily Needs Calculator on the above page? It gave me a Daily Energy Expenditure of 2099 kcal which is about 300 more than most other calculators I've averaged out. But I like that it has the recommended minimums...anyone know if this info is legit?
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