http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/...roducts/2667/2
That site says 200 grams has 180 calories, but it sorta looks like that is cooked. I have a sweet potato about 6x3 inches and weighed it and it's a little over a pound (480 grams), so by that logic this one potato has over 400 calories in it, which I find hard to believe considering a regular potato of about this size would have 200 calories or less .... ???
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09-20-2010, 11:48 AM #1
How many calories in sweet potatoes??
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09-20-2010, 11:51 AM #2
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09-20-2010, 12:01 PM #3
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09-20-2010, 12:07 PM #4
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Yes, about 25 calories per ounce.
http://www.calorieking.com/foods/cal...Bwb3RhdG8.html
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09-20-2010, 12:29 PM #5
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09-20-2010, 12:30 PM #6
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09-20-2010, 12:33 PM #7
If you want to be the 'most anal' about *accurate* calorie counting - then weigh raw and use that as your calculation figure/ recorded figure.
Cooking (depending on time/ method) will alter water weight differently - so you end up with a different 'perceived' weight, when all you have really done is dehydrate the food.
Classic example is steak - >
raw
vs medium
vs well cooked
^
you could start with 6 oz raw
Cooked raw and you get 5.5 oz
medium end up with 5 oz
well done end up with 4 oz
All have the SAME calories at the end of the day (as the only real difference is water loss) -> but if you enter 'steak, cooked' into a calorie counter you only get a single figure - so you could be over/ under estimating your cals.
Sure - for a single item it isn't *that* much, but over time it can count.
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09-20-2010, 01:12 PM #8
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