RE: Cacao beans with cholesterol

[Guest guest]

My guess is that the label is wrong. As is the case with many products. And,

unfortunately, it seems to be that the problem with labels is getting worse, not

better.

Regards

Jeff

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From: citpeks [mailto:citpeks@...]

Sent: Wed 4/13/05 10:50 PM

Subject: [ ] Cacao beans with cholesterol

Jeff,

Thanks for the note from the USDA nutritionist. If most plant

products contain less than 1 mg of cholesterol per 100 grams of

product, then SOMETHING is fishy with the nutrition information for

's cacao beans. 's note says that the cacao beans have 25mg

of cholesterol per 28g of product. That is about 89mg of cholesterol

per 100g of product.

By comparison, 100g of fat-trimmed sirloin (SR17 NDB 13954) has 65mg

of cholesterol. So, the cocoa beans have more cholesterol than beef?

Not very likely. The information is probably wrong.

The calories (160) also include the fiber, which is normally not done.

The calculation should be:

11g fat X 9 + (14g carb - 9g fiber) X 4 + 1g prot X 4 = 123 cal

Tony

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For comparison, a bag of raw cacao beans I recently purchased

had the following nutrition information (upon request):

per 28 g: 160 calories, 11 g total fat, 4 g sat fat,

25 mg cholesterol, 30 mg sodium, 14 g total carbs,

9 g fiber, 3 g sugars, 1 g protein, 42 mg vit C

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Weihrauch JL. Nutritionist, United States Department of Agriculture.

Personal communication. May 3 1990. " In our publications we report

cholesterol to the nearest milligram. Most plant products contain

cholesterol in amounts less than one milligram per 100 grams. At this

time

we have no plans to report cholesterol values in foods of plant

origin...cholesterol in plant foods is insignificant when compared to

the

amounts in foods of animal origin. "

Regards

Jeff