Guest guest Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 > I know that programs like fitday have applications that allow you to figure out how many calories are in something you make. What about nut milk? I was thinking about this yesterday, as I was chowing down on entirely too many nuts for someone who wants to lose weight. I can see being able to figure out how many calories are in nut milk if the pulp is left in it, but what about when you take that out? Does anyone know a way to figure that out? Use the calories on the nut milk container? These things are never precise, though, so it is hard. Mara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 At 02:53 PM 2/25/2010, you wrote: I know that programs like fitday have applications that allow you to figure out how many calories are in something you make. What about nut milk? I was thinking about this yesterday, as I was chowing down on entirely too many nuts for someone who wants to lose weight. I can see being able to figure out how many calories are in nut milk if the pulp is left in it, but what about when you take that out? Does anyone know a way to figure that out? Stacey, Here's the breakdown for pecans from FitDay. 1 ounce is roughly 28 grams. 28.34952 grams, according to my engineer husband who just hates rounding things off. Take note that the majority of calories in nuts comes from the healthy monosaturated and saturated fats. My suspicion is that the fat is probably all in the nut milk. I would guess (and this is only a guess, I don't know!) that the carbohydrates and the protein would be in the milk. Elaine used to recommend dumping the leftovers from making nutmilk because she said that all the good stuff went into the milk and the only thing which remained was the fiber. So, if we assume that what's left from making nut milk is the dietary fiber, which is listed under carbohydrates, we can then take 3 grams of dietary fiber times 4 calories per gram (protein and carbs have 4 calories per gram; fat has 9 calories per gram) away from the total calories. 196 - 12 = 184 calories in the nut milk from 1 ounce of pecans. The question is, how many ounces of nuts do you use to make how many fluid ounces of nut milk? — Marilyn New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001 Darn Good SCD Cook No Human Children Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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