Nutritional information

#1

Hi guys,
I have a confession to make - I completelly failed at the search option on this forum. No matter how much I try, I cannot for the life of me find any links to some reliable nurtitional information sources.

I do not need anything fancy, I am OK looking up all the info on the packaged foods I am buying, I just need the nutritional breakups for other foods - like meats, vegies etc…

Most of the sources I look at show greatly different values (like chicken thighs, raw with skin can have anywehere from 17 to 44 g of fat per 100g). I know all chickens are not created equal, but that kind of difference is huge.

In the end I started using https://www.nutritionvalue.org and thought I had it figured out, but now I searched for jalapenos and this is what I got:
total carbohydrates - 6,5g
dietary fiber - 2,8g,
sugar:4,1.
I was under the impression that if the source breaks up the carbohydrates into total value and dietary fiber, that means the net carbs are the difference between the two. And in any previous cases I searched for, it seemed to be true. In this case though it does not add up.

So is this a typo or have I been calculating the carbs wrong all this time?
Anyway, can anyone recommend a reliable source? I mostly need it for the carbs - the protein and fat amounts are much more forgiving, but hitting under 20g of carbs is much harder to achieve.

Thak you very much.

(charlie3) #2

Try cronometer.com

#3

I looked at the link and that amount of sugar is in 100g. From another place I got an approximation of 1 cup, seeded and sliced jalapeno weighs about 90 g. So, how much are you using?

It appears from the detailed information they might be rounding off the fiber measurement to one decimal place instead of two. That would explain a few tenths of a gram missing.

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(Carl Keller) #4

I also think cronometer is a great resource. In my comparisons of nutrient info in different databases, I think cronometer tends to lean toward assigning higher carb values than the others and this helped keep me better in line with staying under my preferred 20 grams.

There’s also the USDA food composition database that I used a few times. I don’t think any database is quite as extensive as this one:

https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list

#5

Thank you guys, I will try the cronometer. I have tried the USDA website before, but it is far too detailed for me. I do not need to know the exact nutritional values for all 2000 brands of cheddar cheese available in the U.S. :):grinning:

(Full Metal KETO AF) #6

Tracking is only useful for estimates of macros, as you noted all chickens aren’t created equal. But it goes way further than that. Often it isn’t stated whether the meat is raw or cooked besides having no way of estimating fat to protein ratios. It’s all just averages and guesswork. Some tomatoes have more sugar than others, and so on. Fortunately estimates work fairly well when averaged over time. Exact daily macros are an unnatural way of eating. And trying to target them exactly is impossible for almost all food.

Good luck, KCKO :cowboy_hat_face:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #7

The situation is further complicated by the fact that carbohydrate and protein aren’t exactly 4.0 calories/gram, nor is fat exactly 9.0 cal/g either. So if you are trying to be precise with your macros, forget it. Just try for a reasonable estimate, keep calm, and keto on. It will all be fine in the end.