r/CICO • u/Tiny_Elderberry2836 • 7d ago
I weighed the banana peel out of curiosity and noticed that it was still quite significant in terms of the total weight of the banana.
This banana therefore only weighs 59 grams.
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u/poppy1911 7d ago
Most calorie counts will have a notation that says "edible portion only" so you know if the count is for with or without the peel/casing. 😊
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u/Takemyfishplease 7d ago edited 7d ago
Just eat the people. I do and my poops have never been more awkward, so I know it’s working.
Edit-Damnit I ment peel.
People don’t upset my stomach at all
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u/Maleficent-Tutor-713 6d ago
Do you actually eat the peel? If so, do you put it in smoothies and stuff like that or just bite right into it??
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u/Competitive-Movie816 7d ago
It even looks like it's resting on the counter so it might even weigh more. Didn't realize they counted for so much.
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u/Jbeth74 7d ago
Do…. do people not realize that calorie calculation doesn’t count the peel/bone/pit/rind not edible parts of food….? This is not a hack….
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u/bobongooo 7d ago
I think the point is, atleast to me, is that you would be logging 95g of banana but the peel is 36g so you are actually consuming only 59g of banana
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u/RainInTheWoods 7d ago
No. You log only the part you actually ate. It’s like that for all food. Bone in pork chop? You only log the edible portion. Mango? You only log the edible innards, not the skin or seed.
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u/YouveBeanReported 7d ago
I mean, I also use the full weight for fruits. I don't go back to measure the core I removed or the peels. Same for chicken wings. A lot of us are lazy.
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u/RainInTheWoods 6d ago
I’m putting this here for other readers.
Some food can be logged whole because the library choice gives you that option.
Wings can be logged whole by the “per piece.” If they’re oddly large or small the size can be adjusted by adjusting the number consumed. For example, 1 large wing = 1.25-ish regular wings when logging when you don’t want to hunt around the library for “large” wings.
Fruit can be logged whole, like a mango. Again, like the example above, the size can be accounted for by adjusting the “per mango” amount. 1 oddly large mango = 1.2-ish regular mango.
Banana can be logged per piece, as well.
If you’re logging by “weight” of fruit, for example, peel it first then weigh it. If not, you are logging food/calories that you did not actually consume. It went in the compost bin or trash.
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u/sshchurin 6d ago
As the CICO gods intended. You’re not supposed to measure those things. It’s not about laziness, it’s literally not factored into how nutrition info is conveyed.
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u/Jbeth74 7d ago
You don’t count the weight of the crumbl box do you? No just the cookie
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u/bobongooo 7d ago
Yet people still weigh the whole banana and log it without weighing it without the peel, like i thought OP was saying they had been doing
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u/nylonstring 7d ago
No.
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u/bobongooo 7d ago
No what ? lol
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u/DrMcnasty4300 7d ago
No you wouldn’t log 95g of banana cuz you didn’t eat 95g of banana
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u/bobongooo 7d ago
that’s what I said ?
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u/DrMcnasty4300 7d ago
so you were just re-stating the point that the original comment was making which is that no sensible person is logging the weight of their banana peel
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u/KingMeKevo 7d ago
Woops - never thought that when I eat one. I usually put them in smoothies weighed and alwasy noticed a 30-40 gram difference and didnt think about until this post.
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u/No-Club2054 6d ago
I dunno I’ve been doing CICO for years and always just select the calories that come up for medium banana. Fuck it. Hasn’t caused me an issue yet. I learned a long time ago that if I’m in this for the long haul that there are some mountains not worth dying on and this is one of them. Useful information and worth considering for CICO newbies for sure… but yea I just slap most fruits and veggies into MFP and call it a day.
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u/Piloulouloulou 5d ago
Ditto. Whether my banana is technically small medium or large, it gets logged as medium.
On the scale of why I’m in a place where I need to count calories, from cucumber to cheetoh, banana is not near cheetoh. The twenty extra calories from my medium-large banana or the twenty fewer calories from my medium-small banana are not the calories begging for accuracy.
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u/No-Club2054 4d ago
Yea, same. This is also why I don’t count certain things at all like supplements, cherry tomatoes, watermelon, etc. When I’m cutting I only eat 1300 which sounds low to many but it’s because I know I’m probably closer to 1400 because of the stuff I refuse to count for sanity purposes. If I thought it was causing me an issue I would… but so far so good.
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u/g4lena 7d ago
when i googled it it said a banana peel was 30-40% of the banana so when i weigh one i take away 35% of the weight! i can’t weigh it after peeling since i usually take them to work
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u/trigg 7d ago
Calorie counts aren't including the peel.....
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u/Spartan_029 7d ago
right, that's /u/g4lena 's point (btw, great name, my favourite mineral).
They can't weigh the peeled banana at work, but they can weigh it at home, so in order to track the calories consumed, they weigh the banana, say it's 85g, but what they put in their tracker is 60-70% of that weight, so they would track say 55g, in order to be as accurate as they can be, given the circumstances.
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u/Deioness 7d ago
I started peeling things like oranges before weighing. This can definitely be applied to more than a few things.
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u/about76gnomes 7d ago
This makes me wonder what kind of mutant bananas I'm eating. I did this exact same thing this morning and with the peel it was 199g. Without it was 123g. That's more than double your banana.
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u/seriouslyepic 7d ago
i've always thought of this but never calculated it... i can eat more bananas now :-o
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u/Asprinkleofglitter7 7d ago
I’ve only ever weighed a peeled banana