Broccoli Calories

December 9, 2008

Not everyone likes broccoli, but if you do, you wouldn’t mind knowing about the broccoli calories, would you?

Broccoli can be eaten raw, steamed, stir fried or microwaved and the broccoli calories and other nutrition values might change a bit. So let’s check out the detailed broccoli calories:

Raw Broccoli Calories

(this refers to edible parts only)

• 100gr (3.5oz) of broccoli: 34 broccoli calories
• 1 cup chopped broccoli (91gr): 31 broccoli calories

Boiled Broccoli Calories

(and drained)

• 100gr (3.5oz) of broccoli: 35 broccoli calories
• 1 cup chopped broccoli (156gr): 55 broccoli calories

As you can see the number of boiled broccoli calories in 1 cup is higher than 1 cup of raw broccoli calories. That’s because of the high percentage of water in raw broccoli and because the water doesn’t add anything to the broccoli calories.

Salad Calories

December 8, 2008

If you are on a diet, salads are a probably a big part of what you eat. But as we all know salad calories are not necessarily low. Some salads might have a high number of salad calories. So it is important to make sure your know how to make the most taste of your salad but keep those salad calories low.

Salad Calories in Deatils

Vegetables are usually the key part of every healthy salad and what keeps the salad calories low. You can eat many vegetables and never worry about the calories. Plus you get vitamins and other healthy nutrients.  Check out the following salad calories examples for popular vegetables:

• Tomato (1 large) – 33 calories
• Cherry Tomato (1) – 3 calories
• Cucumber (1 large) – 45 calories
• Carrot (1 large) – 30 calories
• Lettuce (1 large leaf) – 2 calories
• Onion (1 tbsp chopped) – 10 calories
• Bell pepper (1 large) – 33 calories
• Celery (1 cup chopped) – 16 calories

You can have a big and colorful salad filled with all these vegetables and still keep a reasonable level of salad calories. Isn’t that great?

Salad Calories No-Nos

Salad dressing calories can be your biggest mistake. Low calories dressing could be fine, but any rich or creamy dressing is the sure way to increase your salad calories by hundreds of calories. I’m serious! If you to have little effect on your salad calories, you cal add as much lemon as you like, as much spices and herbs, and just a few drops of olive oil.

Cheese calories are also a thing to watch out from. Regular cheese has a lot of fat in it. Topping your vegetables with cheese is adding fat and more salad calories. Either choose low fat cheese, like low fat cottage chees, or skip it all together.

Salad Calories

No matter which salad you’re having, always check out the salad calories. It could be caesar salad calories or tuna salad calories, it doesn’t matter. The word salad doesn’t promise low salad calories. Always break your salad to its ingridients and then sum up the total salad calories.caesar salad

Caesar Salad Calories

December 6, 2008

The number of Caesar Salad Calories may vary quite a lot. The main problem is that the vegetables and sizes are not standard. The way people cook the chicken changes and the dressing used also influences the caesar salad calories.

All in all, the number of caesar salad calories may range from 200 calories to 600 calories!

In order for you to get a sense of the number of caesar salad calories we’ll use a known example: McDonald’s Caesar Salad. You don’t really have to eat it, but it can help you get an idea on the number of caesar salad calories you eat at other place or make for yourself.

The chicken is the ingridient that adds the most caesar salad calories. Without it the McDonald’s Caesar Salad has only around 90 calories. But the number of chicken calories changes according to the chicken part of the cooking style.  So adding grilled chicken adds 130 calories, but crispy chicken adds 240 calories.

So the total of caesar salad calories can add up to 220-330 calories (no dressing or croutons).

The single ingridient that might cost you those extra calories is the caesar salad dressing. What happens when you open a 2 fl oz packet of creamy caesar salad dressing? Well, take your caesar salad calories total and add 190 calories! You almost double the number of the caesar salad calories.

Croutons might also add extra calories: 120 for 1 oz. Your caesar salad calories can do without them indeed!

Cucumber Calories

November 25, 2008

Surprisingly enough, cucumbers are actually considered fruit! That means that cucumber calories, like fruit calories are influenced by the amount of sugar in the cucumber. But unlike other fruit, the amount of sugar is not very high and the sugar counts for less than half of the cucumber calories.

Cucumber Calories (with peel)

• 100gr (3.5oz) - 15 calories
• 1 large cucumber (8-1/4″, 301gr) - 45 calories

Cucumber Calories (peeled)

• 100gr (3.5oz) - 12 calories
• 1 small cucumber (6-3/8″, 158gr) - 19 calories
• 1 medium cucumber (201gr) - 24 calories
• 1 large cucumber (8-1/4″, 280gr) - 34 calories

Cucumber Calories - Tips

You should know that the peel is considered healty for you. So besides envaluating the cucumber calories, you should consider other nutrients as well.

Another point you should take in account is that we are talking about fresh and raw cucumber calories. Any cooking or pickling changes the nutrition values and the cucumber calories count. Sour pickled cucumber may have less calories and sweet pickled cucumber may have more than the raw cucumber calories, so you need to check whatever you eat.