green beans wrong in fitday??
03-06-2012, 02:26 AM
#11
FitDay Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 365
Maybe a reason for the difference, is when you cook green beans they soften and you can get a WHOLE LOT MORE in a cup measure! At least that is what I find with cooked beans, carrots, etc. Softer food measures differently. So your best bet if you are using fresh food is scroll down that list of food and find how your food is prepared among the listing... such as, Green Beans, cooked, from Frozen, boiled, drained without salt. I happen to like the varied listings, especially when I am eating food that someone else has prepared. I can get a view of how the rest of the world eats... and how to accurately log that food.
06-04-2012, 03:42 PM
#14
FitDay Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 41
From the bodybuilding forums I learned green beans is a very clean food. A 1 cup serving is suppose to be 33 calories as is pretty much any other green vegetable cooked in just water such as broccoli. I noticed it was off on green beans too so I would just enter it as a custom food. I'm adding a lot of my own custom foods because I find the #s are very different in Fitday from the yogurt and milk I use for instance. Same thing with my whey protein powder now that I think about it. There's going to be variations based on brands so if you might as well enter in your own info if you use the same thing everyday.
06-10-2012, 01:24 AM
#15
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Ottawa, ON Canada
Posts: 93
Do you have a food scale? I've found it easier to accurately calculate when I'm weighing vs measuring my food. I think I picked up mine at Wal-Mart for less than $20. I made fresh green beans last sunday and once weighed out only had like 20something calories in my portion. And it was a fairly large portion. Just something else to consider
