Question: Ice cream servings

So I know a lot of people would say I shouldnt be eating it, but I love a small serving of ice cream. Its the only sugary thing I eat all day. And otherwise I get about 5 grams of fat in my diet haha.

Anyway my question is, if the ice cream container says "Nutritional information per 1/2 cup or 125ml" would that translate into 125 grams? As far as I know, 1ml = 1g, so if I serve myself the ice cream on my little kitchen scale and serve 125 grams, am I getting what it says on the container? Im worried because Ive seen other ice creams on this site as "1/2 cup (88g)" etc.

For reference, Ive been having compliments ice cream, which on this site says 125g, and nestle rolo / turtles ice cream, which serving size on the container is designated as 125ml.

Thanks!

I dunno because my treat of choice is one Dove miniature ice cream bar. That's 59 calories of pure heavenly delight. 

No. Read the label, it usually lists how many grams per serving size. It depends on the density of the product, meaning how much air is in the ice cream.

milliliters are only equal to grams when you're talking about liquids.  Ice cream is a semi-solid, so it doesn't apply.  But yeah, they ususally list grams alongside the nutrition info.  On most of my ice creams, 1/2 cup is about 60 grams for plain ice cream and 65-67 grams if it's got little bits in it (like cookie dough).

according to my ww ice cream, 6 fluid oz = 102 gram, so, doing the math 4 fluid oz = 102/6 x 4 = 68 gram, which is basically what dattaplot said

thanks! I'll keep that in mind. So then I'm guessing, on CC, the listed "125g" serving for compliments ice cream is probably incorrect?

Hello ice cream lovers.. anyone interested in making homemade ice cream?  We tried it last night and it turned out great!  I used mostly Splenda no-cal and skim milk, and subbed condensed skim for the usual cream, and voila!  A 65-calorie dish of ice cream... light, refreshing, sweet, yum... Here's the recipe if you're interested!

http://www.calorie-count.com/recipe/59309.htm l

Cheers!

:oD

Tara

Taranimator, just so you know, your splenda didn't register on the CC counter (because you added "no calorie sweetener" in the description).  It's actually 125 cals per serving...still light, just not 65.  Sorry!

Nope,  -- the Splenda I use is different than the one Calorie Count recognizes -- it literally has NO calories.  The Splenda in the C-C food lists is the baking variety, which has half the cal's of sugar, because it'd mixed 1:1 with real sugar.  I used the description 'no calorie sweetener' specifically so that it wouldn't register a false high-carb/cal rating. 

Another thing that's inaccurate is the amount of fat -- which is actually lower since C-C will only add '2%' milk for me, when I used only skim and a little bit of 1%. 

If you calculate it with an old-fashioned calculator, it comes out to less than 65 cals, lower carbs, lower fat, and should be a higher rating. 

 

taranimator

you can tell it to use a specific ingredient if you've found it here.

for example skim milk

http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/1085.html

see the number i made bold in the link?  that is what you use to identify a specific ingredient/brand

so in your recipe, you could say:

1 cup skim milk [1085]

and the recipe analyzer will use the item in the link

hope this helps :)

why not take out your measuring cup, measure out a half cup of ice cream, weigh it and from then on you'd know how much it'd weigh. But, no it isn't mL = g cause everything has different densities. I think that may be true for water, and juices and such with similar densities but thats it.

Thanks, united2gether, I'll definitely try that!!

 

taranimator -- regular Splenda (the pure, no-regular-sugar-mixed-in kind) has calories -- 96 per cup. It has fewer then 5 calories per serving, so can be advertised as a zero calorie sweetener.

On the other hand, the recipe only uses 1/2 cup, or 48 calories, for 8 servings, which would add 6 calories per serving. Not a big deal. Use Stevia for a lower calorie and more natural alternative?

Also, the analyzer doesn't recognize fat-free condensed milk (it's reading it as regular skim milk), and I don't even see an entry for it in the database (or on google, except a recipe on how to make it with dry milk powder). When I use fat free evaporated milk instead, I get 82 cals per serving-- just shy of 90 cals per serving if using Splenda. But maybe the condensed milk is sweetened with more calories?

Anyway... my 2 cents, sorry to digress from the original purpose of the post :)

Edit: according to about.com, condensed milk is just sweetened evaporated milk.

Hi everybody -- I used those codes to make this recipe more accurate, so here it is!

http://www.calorie-count.com/recipe/59309.htm l?refresh=1 

That's so interesting about Splenda having calories -- I didn't know that!  According to the C-C database it's 0 per serving, but I do see there are calories in it, even a small amount.  I'll ask C-C to update Splenda to be able to measure it in larger quantities.  I bake with it a lot, so I'd like to know how many cal's to add. 6 cal's per serving isn't so bad..   That's an important little detail if you're really hoping to cut cal's or carbs (like diabetics, for ex). 

About.com is mixed up about the condensed milk thing.  Condensed, or evaporated skim  is just healthy old skim milk with half the water removed -- 200 cal's a cup. Sweetened, condensed milk  is a whole other decadent, syrupy, sugary treat with 982 calories per cup, and a hefty 17 grams of fat, 166 grams of carbs!  Not a small detail if you're trying to cut cals and carbs (like diabetics, for example).

I finally got the right code from C-C and straightened that out.  It actually made my servings a little heavier, which raised the cal's a teensy bit.  Still... 

Hope that clears that up!  I'm going to eat some more ice cream now--  

Anyway!!  Yes, we DO digress, don't we!  the poor person who wondered what a serving size is must be just totally confused!

1/2 cup is standard, isn't it?  Anyone weighing food these days?

I'll bet all brands have different weights per volume just to confuse everyone. 

:oD

Tara