Nutritional Value


 
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Erik G

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I am a bit of an obsessive. Ever since January, I have been watching what I eat. I take it a step further by weighing everything that goes in my mouth, and then plugging it into a online nutrition website to figure out exactly the amount calories I have eaten (as well as the amount of vitamins and minerals).

My question pertains to the nutritional value located on foods. For example, I smoked some baby back ribs on Monday. I am trying to figure out about how many calories I am consuming from the ribs. Since the nutritional value doesn't specifically state if it's for raw or cooked ribs, I am uncertain how much I should plug in to the website. Can anyone help? Does the nutritional value on raw meats mean when the animal is cooked or uncooked?

I am assuming they're only calculating the meat portion and not bones and/or cartilage. For example, if 4 ounces of ribs equals 200 calories, is that only for 4 ounces of meat, or 4 ounces of the total product (including bones, fat, etc)? Thanks for the help.

Erik
 
have no idea and maybe shouldn't reply but if yer in this situation, why are you eating ribs ?
and if you do eat them i can't imagine you eating more than a few to get yerself off scale. aside from that i imagine that the count would be of the meat and fat. the bone you do not ingest. not condeming you or anything like that, just wondering also.
 
Hi George, I think most people have this misconception that eating pork, beef or other red meats are bad for you and that's simply not true. As more research is being done, now we're coming to understand how saturated fats (limited obviously) are beneficial. So what I basically do is keep my intake of ribs limited (possibly a quarter of a slab) and try to consume it around my workouts. I don't restrict myself to any particular food, I just watch how much I eat and when I eat during the day.

I would assume the nutritional value doesn't include bones, but I have assumed many obvious things and have been incorrect.

Erik
 
Rita, thanks for the response. I use nutritiondata.com, which is based on the USDA nutrient database. Unfortunately, they don't have the nutritional value for baby backs. My luck I guess.

Erik
 
Eating pork (mainly ribs because they're fatty unlike pork chops, which are leaner) and beef concerns me but I usually eat chicken throughout the week and my diet is pretty clean. In addition, I work-out and keep in shape.

I know ribs have high saturated fat content and are high in calories but if I thought about this every time I cooked/ate ribs, I wouldn't bother having them again. It's all in the brain, sometimes.


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