confused about CC for diff types of eggs

This morning I had one egg scrambled with no milk no water just itself, I used cooking spray instead of pouring oil and I added that to my cc as well. My question is why is there such a huge difference with calories between the different forms of cooking the eggs? raw it says it is 72 cals, but poached is 71, how did it lose a cal? hardboiled is 78 fried is 90 scrambled is 100 and an omlet is 96...are they adding oil used to cook or milk or what? Because I thought that a egg was a egg was a egg untill you added something to it?

I think they are all making assumptions about what goes into the egg (no idea why poached would be one calorie less - probably just a rounding error).

I'd log a raw egg, and then whatever you added to it. Who knows what they assume goes into the omelet.

ok thanks, seems like they should give the cc of the egg not for the egg and the oil and I looked to see if it said it was adding in 1 tbs milk or so much oil or what. CONFUSING!

the more processed something is before you put it in your mouth, the easier it is for your body to extract calories from it.  since a raw egg hasn't been processed at all, your body can only get so much out of it.  a fried egg is cooked so it yields more calories.  a scrambled egg is beaten and cooked so it yields the most calories.

but also keep in mind that certain nutrients are made more readily available through the same processes so a couple of extra calories may not always be reason enough to go with the less processed version of a food.  (keeping with the egg example, i'm fairly certain you get more protein out of a cooked egg.)

leaner I think you give CC too much credit. Most likely whoever created those entries just assumed stuff was added like milk or oil, or lost like some of the egg whites got separated during pouching.

UD