Info for food we eat

[peytonplace 4]

I am trying to find out how to know what the calories, carbs, fats, sugars, Protein, Vitamins, etc.

Examples are: 1 cup of red seedless grapes.

Cooked great northern Beans - how many = what?

Jiffy cornbread - 1 slice. Need to know how much it "costs" me to eat things like this. By "costs", I mean the things we need to keep up with mentioned above.

I would appreciate any help you can give me? I'm sure there is a link somewhere but I'm not finding it.

Thank you so much for your help! I am post surgery but don't have a nutritionist to ask these questions.

[mngreeneyes 674]

I tend to log everything I eat in myfitnesspal.com. It fills the details in for me. It also adds all the nutrition and calories for me so I can't mess up the math.

Otherwise, read your nutrition labels. For the cornbread it should be on the box. I assume one piece of cornbread is one serving. I just find it easier and more convenient to let an app/computer program do the figuring for me.

Does that help?

pam

[CowgirlJane 14,261]

my fitness pal is great - there are other nutrition info sites too just an example: http://nutritiondata.self.com/

If you are more old school, you can actually buy little booklets that have "standard" nutrition info for things like grapes, Beans etc - don't tend to be brand specific.

[ssflbelle 829]

I agree myfitnesspal is the tracker for me. Plus you can track your exercise and they have sleeve forum groups as well as a new feed. My id over there is ssbeadlady. send me a friends request when you get there. Also anyone else feel free to send a friends request.

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

I use MyFitnessPal and read labels, too. In a pinch I use google.

[esskay77 785]

If it helps, I was told to NOT count calories but to count grams of Protein. Much easier. I am supposed to get in 70-100 grams of protein each day. I haven't had luck in the past with the food tracker apps but am going to give it another try. I would really love it if someone would come up with one where all I have to do is take a picture of my food and it can enter the data for me! lol

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

@@esskay77 - Myfitnesspal and several other sites also have features where you can scan the barcode on foods. Myfitnesspal works for me, but there are loads of sites and apps. Simply google or check the app store for your device.

[Jessica Ellison-Correa 66]

My fitness pal is great

[OKCPirate 5,323]

Umm, if you really want to be really scientific about this, you are really in murky territory. All we have are educated guesses. For instance alcohol. There is a set calorie amount based on how much energy it produces when ignited. Now how much of this enters your system? That's a guess. It gets even stranger when you consider the VS changes absorption rates. So you are really looking at potential calories.

That said, after tracking a couple of years I am fairly confident that the "relative" accuracy of the protein/calorie counts on myfitnesstracker. You are not going to be 100% confident, but you will be close enough for your use.

BTW, fascinating article: http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2013/10/cocktail-science-do-alcohol-calories-count-digesting-spirits.html

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

Agreed, These tracker won't be 100% accurate, but they will help you get a better sense of portions and nutrition.