cutting crust off bread to save calories?

The only advantage to this I can think of is your eating less so of course there is less calories in it and usually the crust is baste in butter to make it shine so prob has more calories right there than the bread inside? But I do not eat soft breads so do not have to worry about it

Trying to limit my bread. I could eat a loaf of crusty bread with a hunk of sharp cheddar cheese all by myself. YUm Yum

Aren't you cutting out some of your nutrients when you do that? I am speculating. I am not a bread expert, LOL. But if I get whole wheat bread for the purpose of putting more fiber in my diet, I imagine a nice portion of that fiber is in the crust and not the heart of the bread.

And if you must cut crust off to save calories, I suggest finding a new carb. =]

Sorry, my Mom would whack me on the back of the head for not eating the end crust in the loaf, or for cutting the crust off a perfectly good piece of bread.

Eat one slice and donate the equivalent of one slice to your food bank. Win, win.

When I have a sesame seed bun, I take off all of the seeds. Saves me 5 calories! Great job on the dedication!

wow, you're taking the piss out of someone on a diet forum for asking a question about dieting. You really are winning at the internet.

to me, theres a big difference between dieting, and being obsessive.
cutting crust off to save calories seems obsessive to me.

I think you need a better bread. I eat Pumpernickel and one slice = 40 cal 1g fat 2g protein 1g fiber. The whole slice. Remove the crust and all you get are empty calories.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/food-nutrition/facts/eating-bread-crust.htm

This is another, sterling example of the inaccuracies of the editor-free content that's too common on the web.

Yes, one of the subheads reads "If you cut the bread crusts off your bread, you miss out on the nutrients." but that assertion is not supported by the article that it accompanies.

The only mention of the non-crust portion is "Through analyzing the bread crust, bread crumbs from the paler inside of the bread and flour, researchers discovered that pronyl-lysine, an antixodant, was eight times more plentiful in the bread crust than in the other components of the bread. Pronyl-lysine was not at all present in the flour"

As I read it, that para states how much pronyl-lysine is in the crust. It sheds zero light on the nutritional value of the non-crust portion (other than as it deals with pronyl-lysine, of course).


Insofar as "empty calories" - I think some bread might fall under that category but even "Wonder Bread", which I have the impression is the lowest in nutritional content, has vitamins and minerals in it.

I bake my own bread from whole wheat flours because bread is an important part of my diet. I need calories and I need carbs and it's difficult for me to get all of the carbs that I need without eating bread.

Whole grain bread is a medium glycemic index food which means it can be important in controlling appetite and providing complex carbs which my body needs for energy (I add peanut butter to lower the GI). Further, whole grain has antioxidants (lord help me, I sound like a "whole foodie"!) which some people believe play a role in the aging process.

Hey folks, Google is your friend! :-)

http://www.how-many-calories-in-food.com/bread/how-many-calories-in-white-bread

Don't know how credible this source is but…

In testing the caloric value of white bread, the "slice thin, crust not eaten" value is 9 grams for 24 calories while the ""slice thin" is 20 grams and 53 calories.

The crust is 11 grams and contributes 29 calories = 2.6363 cals/gram
The non-crust is 9 grams and contributes 24 calories = 2.6666 cals/gram

That's a 0.01% difference which means that, in the case of white bread, they're "the same".

Now, what about whole wheat baked with a firm crust? ;-)

For the few calories you're going to save, why bother cutting off the crusts? Seriously, why make the process more difficult than it already is? Just eat the bread intact and take the stairs in to the office to make up for it.

love it!

So nice to see that I'm not the only one wondering the same thing, haha! I try to cut the calories every way I can b/c I am only allowed 1200/day too. Realized yesterday that 1 packet of ketchup has 20 calories!!!!! Which doesn't sound like a lot, but it does add up quickly!