Ok I'm making a HUGE effort to be good and eat a banana tomorrow. But what is its calories? Online gives all these figures of 100g or a cup of a "medium" size.
My banana is 182g on the scale with its peel. When online says 100g is that peeled or weight unpeeled??
I peel mine then weigh. I agree sometimes the calories vary on mfp. Off top of my head medium 100g is around about 100 cals but don’t quote me. I go by generic Cals per item if I can 😊
100g generic is 89 cals so approx 9 Cals per 10g 😊
Is that weighing after peeling?
Yes approx - just found another generic 95 calls no skin 100g 🤣 so agree not easy but I’d go with 100 per 100g personally to be safe 👍🏻
Ok thanks! That will help with my count!
Hello CrimsonMama NHS Calorie counter kids size (65g) 52 cals without skin
Personally, I feel that life is too short to spend it weighing bananas. When I asked my dietician (on the NHS) she said count a kid-sized one as 55 and a normal banana as 110. It’s a good enough estimate. No one ever put on weight over the difference between 50 and 55g of banana.
Lol the difference is if I can have (just as an example) 1500 calories for the day, knowing the calories for that banana means if I have 45 calories left after meals AND the banana I can have a Jaffa cake!
Usually I would class the banana .. or any fruit... As using up calories on things I don't get any pleasure eating so would rather skip the banana and just have three Jaffa cakes instead! Much more satisfying!
However my new healthier me had an inclination for a banana! Which is RARE for me to want healthy stuff! So I didn't want to pass up on it! But neither did I want to go over my calorie allowance.
I'm going with the 100g equals 100 calories principle. That seems best. And the banana in question was, without peel 89g/calories.
And surprisingly tasty it was too! 😁😁😁
From nutritiondata.com %ages are of recommended daily value (or something like that!)
Weight100g
(peeled)
Calories894%
Fat0.3g1%
Protein1.1g2%
Carbohydrate22.8g8%
Sugars12.2g24%
Fiber 2 .6g10%
Cholesterol0mg0%
Saturated Fats0.1g1%
Calcium, Ca5mg0%
Iron, Fe0.3mg1%
Potassium, K358mg8%
Magnesium, Mg27mg6%
Vitamin A, RAE3μg0%
Vitamin C8.7mg10%
Vitamin B-120μg0
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