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I bought some chicken the other day and my attention was drawn to the sticker that said it has 149 kcal per 100 grams. The question is how they managed to count calories of chicken since it has not only meat but some inedible parts like bones. Does this figure of 149 kcal include only edible part of the chicken or both edible and inedible.
The same question bothers me when it comes to fruits that have bones within it like peaches or peel like bananas.
Since the inedible parts are....well, inedible, I'm sure they don't count towards total calories....just like the calories of the BOX that surrounds the cereal doesn't get counted! But, calories are based on SERVING SIZE....so you have to take that into account. Many chicken breasts are larger than 1 serving, so you may be getting more calories if you eat the entire thing!
Since the inedible parts are....well, inedible, I'm sure they don't count towards total calories....just like the calories of the BOX that surrounds the cereal doesn't get counted!
I see a problems here. Edibility is a matter of taste. Some dogs eat bones, some people don't eat skin, and so on.
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Originally Posted by cb at sea
But, calories are based on SERVING SIZE....so you have to take that into account. Many chicken breasts are larger than 1 serving, so you may be getting more calories if you eat the entire thing!
Calories should be based on some standard weight figure like 100 grams. When a food producer specifies that his product has some amount of calories based on serving size that is neither more nor less than a slyness. I remember how Mars started to do so. Back in the day they specified on the package that Snickers had around 500 kcal per 100 grams. Then, they divided the Snickers into two parts and started to write that it had only around 250 kcal per piece. That is just a smart attempt to mislead customers.
I bought some chicken the other day and my attention was drawn to the sticker that said it has 149 kcal per 100 grams. The question is how they managed to count calories of chicken since it has not only meat but some inedible parts like bones. Does this figure of 149 kcal include only edible part of the chicken or both edible and inedible.
The same question bothers me when it comes to fruits that have bones within it like peaches or peel like bananas.
That is a good question, I don't know.
I do know that the food is ground up and mixed with a flammable glycerin mix. It is then incinerated and the resulting amount of heat is mathematically translated into calories.
I would assume that only the edible parts are counted.
I see a problems here. Edibility is a matter of taste. Some dogs eat bones, some people don't eat skin, and so on.
There are some things, though, that you can't get energy or nutritional value out of (digest) even if you ate them, and wouldn't give you any calories. They'd just pass through your system.
There are some things, though, that you can't get energy or nutritional value out of (digest) even if you ate them, and wouldn't give you any calories. They'd just pass through your system.
You don't eat it but it does matter. Do I have to explain why? I take it as yes. Say you have bought a package of bananas that states two things:
1) The weight of the package is 500 grams.
2) The nutrition value is 100 kcal per 100 grams.
The question is how many calories will you get if you eat the whole package? I suppose the weight of peel consists around 20 percent of whole banana. So, there are two ways of counting it:
1) 5 x 100 = 500 kcal.
2) 4 x 100 = 400 kcal.
It is just ridiculous how many people do their best to count the exact amount of calories they have every day and yet they don’t even know how to count calories properly.
If I wanted to know or guess the number of calories in the flesh of an average banana, I would weigh the fruit peel on, peel off on a home scale a number of times and draw my own conclusions. Not every banana in a bunch is the same size. Peels can vary in thickness; is there a little or a lot of stem attached?
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