Weighing your food

[mindstalk]

Bought a combo from Lucky's -- sweet and sour chicken, curry chicken, lo mein. $4.97. Weighed in at 900 grams, including styrofoam container. I'm not sure of the calories per gram, but since it's not a weight-loss product, 2-3 seems a reasonable guess. Not something you want to eat all of in one sitting...

Comments

[sraun]

With carbs & protein weighing in at 4 calories/gram, and fats at 9 calories/gram, do you really think there's enough mass of styrofoam to get it below 4? I'd expect a non-weight-loss product to be 6-7 calories/gram personally, worse if the total fat calories is more than half the total calories.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

I was assuming the styrofoam had zero weight, actually. But food isn't pure carb and protein and fat, it has lots of water. Looking at my labels, my bread is under 3 cal/g, my hot dogs are 2, eggs are under that, *dry* pasta is under 4.
http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/20421.html
gives similar numbers for chicken or cooked noodles, say.

I'd also looked up lo mein and sweet and sour chicken, but there was a wide range of values, from under 1 to 3.