[Sca-cooks] Dieting

[Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:15:40 -0600, betsy at softwareinnovation.com wrote:
>> A plain baked potato has 100 calories... that is a VERY low
>> calorie
>> food and it is misinformation to say otherwise.  I did NOT say it
>> was
>> a low carbohydrate food.
>
> Maybe if you're eating little baby red potatoes.  According to the
> Complete Book of Food Counts, a 4-3/4"x2-1/3" potato has 212
> calories.
> That is a fairly small potato.  If you're eating one of the one-
> pound
> potatoes they advertise at some chain restaurants, I'd estimate
> they are
> about 7"x4".  You're looking at at least 500 calories for one of
> those
> behemoths, and probably 300-400 for a normal, large roasting potato.
>
> 1 pound = 454 grams (x4 cals/gram)= 1816 calories ?!?
> there is a flaw in here somewhere...

Yah - a pound of potato doesn't have a pound of carbohydrates. One pound of 
baked potato has about 98gm of carbs, 9 gm of protein and 0.5gm of fat, for 
a total caloric value of about 422. The rest of the weight is water and 
indigestibles like cellulose.

FYI, my resource for caloric information is the Nutrition Analysis Tools and 
System 2.0 located at http://nat.crgq.com/index.html - a very useful tool 
for calculating all kinds of nutritional info.




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Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur
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