calories in a soybean?

so i had a plate of edamame for lunch. i ate 134 soybeans, discarded the shell, but i can only find calorie information in terms of cups!! any idea how many calories are in one soybean?

You actually counted them?......

yes, i'm neurotic like that. it was the only way i could think of to know how much i ate! sometimes i wish i had a pocket digital scale that would fit in my purse.

You don't need a digital scale in your pocket... that would be pretty silly.   Instead, why not practise 'eye-balling' amounts of various foods?  Take your kitchen scales and a plate.  Place what you think is 4oz of something on the plate.  Then weigh it and see how close you got.  With practice you'll be able to dispense with the 'Rain-Man' behaviour...

You probably had somewhere around 80g beans.

Here is what I was able to find. Not for one bean, but some more options:

1 ounce: 48 calories

I tablespoon: 18 calories

100 grams:173 calories

These are for cooked and boiled without salt, I dunno what the salt adds. When I can't find something on here, I often check on NutrionData.com. It's also free to sign-up and has expanded nutritional information.

Okay... just for you, I busted out some dry roasted soybeans and counted out how many fit into a tablespoon- it was approximately 40 dry roasted soybeans. Don't know about non-roasted ones, but yeah.

Original Post by zoraj:

it was the only way i could think of to know how much i ate!

Another way would be to measure with a cup. :) Lol, counting calories and measuring everything is one thing. Counting individual beans is another.