Do you weigh apples whole or without the core?

I've been eating an apple a day (keeps the doctor away, heh) and putting it as a medium fruit.  I wasn't weighing them and hey, it looked medium to me.  Medium is 72 grams.

So today I had lunch at home and weighed it, core and all, and it was 210 grams.  According to CC, that is large and costs me 110 calories.  For an apple!?  Really? 

So I'm wondering if I could discount some of the weight due to the core.  I can't always slice them because apples are my portable fruit.  I always carry them with me for snacks.  I don't want to carry sliced apples in my bag.  They will get nasty if not eaten the same day.  110 just seems a lot for fruit.  SHEESH.

I personally would weigh only the parts I'm going to eat :)  However if you don't want to carry them already cut I would weigh one without the core and use that weight for an average of the following apples of about the same size.

Why not take 1 apple, core it, weigh it, so you get an idea of how big "medium" vs. large is.  Hint:  if you live in the US, most fruit you buy at the supermarket will be "large" or "huge".

But, put it in perspective, 110 calories of fruit with fiber, vitamins, who knows what else good for you -- it's a bargain.

A woman I knew many years ago in WW said when everyone in the meeting was obsessing about large vs. medium fruit "I don't know about anyone else here, but I never got fat by eating large rather than medium apples!".

A woman I knew many years ago in WW said when everyone in the meeting was obsessing about large vs. medium fruit "I don't know about anyone else here, but I never got fat by eating large rather than medium apples!".

That is seriously awesome.

Back when I had a scale and weighed food, with apples I would weigh it before I ate it and then weigh the leftover portion. I could have sliced, but I prefer eating apples whole.

I know I said it before, but it's worth repeating: that is why best way is to measure things with scale. The whole small/medium/large/1 cup sliced is very deceiving and most people under estimate the portions. Fun experiment to do is to weight the potato that comes out by weight to "large", then ask people to rate it. Most people will say Medium.

UD

I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I eat the core.

It's not bad, and it saves me from having to find a garabge (I eat on the move most of the time). Just thought I'd throw it out there.

I think you have big apples, I just had one mid morning and with the core it weighed 96 grams

I usually just weigh the bits I'm gonna eat and also ignore the whole small, medium, large thing.

I weigh them with the core, whole. I didn't even think about the weight of the core...I figured the grams that calorie count says took that into account? But like the above posters have said, eating a few extra grams of an apple won't make you fat. But now you've got me thinking about weighing a core....

I weigh it first whole, then when im done i weigh the core. Then just subtract the numbers and thats how much of the apple i ate. lol

I dont do this everytime though, once i get a number i have a general idea of how much my apple weighed.

I looked up apple slices on calorie count, then weigh the apple slices and put that.

I have the same question about bananas...is the CC weight with or without the skin? 

Original Post by cmleysen:

I have the same question about bananas...is the CC weight with or without the skin? 

I usually peel off the skin, then weigh it. lol

Unless im mixing it with my yogurt and müsli, then i chop it up and add it to my 500 gram bowl of food, get a number like 625, and figure my banana weighed 125 :)

Original Post by cmleysen:

I have the same question about bananas...is the CC weight with or without the skin? 

Don't take offense, but seriously? The skin weights what about 2 grams at most? That is a error tolerance on most food scales, and comes out to 1 Calorie or something.

UD

Original Post by healthisinplease:

Original Post by cmleysen:

I have the same question about bananas...is the CC weight with or without the skin? 

I usually peel off the skin, then weigh it. lol

Unless im mixing it with my yogurt and müsli, then i chop it up and add it to my 500 gram bowl of food, get a number like 625, and figure my banana weighed 125 :)

Just wanted to weight in, hey weight in ha ha, on banana issue. I eat them quite frequently, and it needs to be a really really big banana to be 125 grams. I am talking about the biggest one in the bunch.

UD

From my experience with weighing bananas before and after eating them, I find that the peel alone usually weighs between 2-3 oz.

Original Post by umneydurak:

Original Post by cmleysen:

I have the same question about bananas...is the CC weight with or without the skin? 

Don't take offense, but seriously? The skin weights what about 2 grams at most? That is a error tolerance on most food scales, and comes out to 1 Calorie or something.

UD

They're talking about bananas, not apples. A banana peel is pretty heavy.

Original Post by csbs:

Original Post by umneydurak:

Original Post by cmleysen:

I have the same question about bananas...is the CC weight with or without the skin? 

Don't take offense, but seriously? The skin weights what about 2 grams at most? That is a error tolerance on most food scales, and comes out to 1 Calorie or something.

UD

They're talking about bananas, not apples. A banana peel is pretty heavy.

Oops, my bad. I should have had my coffee before reading this. :)

UD

Original Post by 10bysummer:

I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I eat the core.

It's not bad, and it saves me from having to find a garabge (I eat on the move most of the time). Just thought I'd throw it out there.

Don't apple cores contain traces of cyanide?