calories in Chinese food

levitronix

Just wondering does anyone know a good reference for calories in irish Chinese take away foods

Faith

Better here, I think

rubadub

Most guides I have seen hugely underestimate the amount, as they do not account for the fact most give massive portions.

They should really give estimated cals per 100g, and let you weigh what you get. Maybe some do.

I usually do not finish a whole meal. I have weighed out lots and its often twice the weight of a typical microwave ready meal, and less watered down.

You cannot believe what many places declare as calories either, as they can just send off small portions for testing. The likes of mcdonalds or BK I would trust. People moan about feeling hungry soon after mcdonalds, I do not hear that about some other styles of takeaway as most give huge amounts more of foods with a similar nutritional profile , I have seen a local chipper quote stupidly low calorie amounts for their food.

ThunbergsAreGo

Usually one chinese meal does the two of us!

Tea-a-Maria

SafeFood did a report on this a while back. Its not good reading I'm afraid!

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.safefood.eu/SafeFood/media/SafeFoodLibrary/Documents/Publications/Research%2520Reports/What-s-in-your-Chinese-Takeaway-FINAL.pdf&ved=0CCkQFjABahUKEwj-1cij4OLIAhUJ2B4KHeG8DYU&usg=AFQjCNG_AR0zxF1XPWpF7jt9rs_j9iO7jg&sig2=cJxmeaxeorf0IkatYOLa2AA

I'll still eat them mind..

Tar.Aldarion

I generally assume it's over 1000 calories to have a chinese with boiled rice.

rubadub

Tea-a-Maria wrote: »

SafeFood did a report on this a while back. Its not good reading I'm afraid!

Forgot about that report, I was very impressed that they did it so well.

Average boiled rice was 567kcal on its own, and they said it was twice the normal portion, the average boiled rice was 323g. Those microwave pouches are usually 250g and say its 2 portions. Some will let you swop the rice for veg, or make you pay a little extra.

I have seen a woman in my local get a small singapore chow mein, which comes in the smaller tray and it was €5 instead of €6.80. THis was the same place below

I got a singapore chow mein last week, weighed 800g.
Using this calculator http://points.ogo.ms/
I hit 5.5 points at 370kcal presuming zero fat (and it was fairly greasy)
That means if this was true then it was 46.25kcal per 100g. I would estimate it at 250kcal per 100g though, this is comparing it to supermaret ready meals and the fact that the noodles are much denser, i.e. not boiled to death where they take up lots of water. A single pack of 80-100g dry supernoodles can be 550-600kcal. I would also conservatively estimate 5% fat since it was fried noodles & meat and quite oily, so 40g of fat, and 20g goes in my calculator. So using the same calculator I would estimate 33.5points.

another old post

back from "lets eat in", the portions looked small compared to the usual chinese/indian takeaways huge helpings. They are in cubic boxes so it is deceiving. I am in work & had a scales handy, I also like to calculate calories to show people the reality of takeaway portions, rice was 310g, korma was 520g. 830g in total, now most microwave kormas are 300-400g, so it is over twice that. The rice was the size of a decent mug.

I would guess at least 1200kcal, will have to have a look at some rich korma sauce labels and try and figure it out better.

It will depend on what dish you get of course. In one place I go to the chicken balls are simply ridiculous, one I weighed was the same weight as 44 mcdonalds chicken nuggets, and this then comes with sauce and chips/rice too.

Tar.Aldarion

fried rice highest was 920 calories, haha. I usually share a vegetable tofu satay and still think that is too much food, let alone adding in that kinda calories via rice.

Zillah

I know someone that would normally eat a full main and two sides for dinner, which means he'd easily be hitting 2,500+ calories.

This would explain why he struggles to not be fat.

Dial Hard

rubadub wrote:

Those microwave pouches are usually 250g and say its 2 portions. Some will let you swop the rice for veg, or make you pay a little extra.

That's even a big portion, imo. 65g (uncooked weight) per person is what I'd use.

Alf Veedersane

Dial Hard wrote: »

That's even a big portion, imo. 65g (uncooked weight) per person is what I'd use.

Yeah the microwaveable packets of rice are 250g with 2 servings but they're about 185 kcal per serving.

62.5g of dry rice works out about 210 kcal or so when cooked.

rubadub

Dial Hard wrote: »

That's even a big portion, imo. 65g (uncooked weight) per person is what I'd use.

65.5g is what uncle ben recommend in this link for boil in the bag rice

http://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=252500316

they state calories for 100g of cooked rice too, so by their figures the 65.5g portion becomes 160g when cooked and it absorbs water. So this is more than half a pouch.

Some may cook with more or less water so cooked weight can change.

I reckon many people would eat one of those pouches to themselves.

Mellor

Dial Hard wrote: »

That's even a big portion, imo. 65g (uncooked weight) per person is what I'd use.

You're comparing cooked and uncooked though.
65g uncooked is prob the bigger portion of the two.

I use 50g of rive per portion, and say its about the same as half a cooked pouch