Egg weight

Trying2Heal

Hello,

When you select the size/weight of an egg from the drop-down menu in the Cronometer app (e.g medium, large, unknown, jumbo), do you weigh the egg whole (with shell) in its raw state before you cook it, raw without shell cracked into a bowl (if not boiling), or cooked without shell? (Peeled after boiling). I've found there's quite a difference in the weight between an uncooked egg and the same egg cooked and peeled, and that makes quite a difference in terms of calories/nutrients in the app. Just want to get an accurate sense of my choline intake etc :).

Thanks!

Marie_Eve_Cronometer

Hello @Trying2Heal ,

Our values are per edible portion, so that would mean without the shell that we normally remove before eating.

The best way to track accurately your nutrition is to weigh out the portion you are eating and enter in your serving size as a gram amount in Cronometer.

In other words, to be accurate, you would need to weigh the weight of the cooked egg without the shell and log the gram amount using ''Eggs, Cooked''.

We have a great blog post that you might like to check out that explains how to get more accurate nutrition information using Cronometer.
https://cronometer.com/blog/6-tips-getting-nutrition-data/

Kind regards,
Marie-Eve

wklambert

From a user standpoint, I buy Nellie's Eggs (free range, organic, blah, blah) exclusively. I entered a custom food, using. The nutrition label and supplemental information found on Nutrition Data.self.com, and then weigh my eggs daily, (3 eggs are usually around 150g) as I crack them into a paper bowl in prep to cook up. I created a recipe to track, where I can update the weights before putting them into the diary. Makes it nice, because sometimes I'll use butter, or sometimes bacon grease. Updating recipes before entry has gotten quite easy with the changes they've made. :)

Hilary

@wklambert have you tried out the explode recipe feature as well? You can learn more about it in the article Crono-Hacks for Power users

wklambert

I will check it out. Thanks for the link!