OLd dutch Pork Rinds
 

AFter sending several e-mails, I finally got a reply from Old Dutch about their product called Bacon Puffs, which is pork rinds, lard and salt. The package does not have any nutritional information, but here is what they have given me:

The nutritional info for a serving size of 14g is:
Calories 80
Total Fat 5g
Cholesterol 15mg
Sodium 230mg
Total Carbohydrates 0g
Protein 8g

Now I know. The bags I buy are 80 grams, so I have something to go on now. Fitday has pork rinds in it's database, but it goes by cup. How easy is it to measure a CUP of pork rinds???

Glenda

Fitday also has a "2oz bag" which is pretty close to what most of them weigh if you have a kitchen scale (which I highly recommend). Half a bag is 1 oz.

Nat

Thanks Nat. I am still having a little trouble figuring out some of the nutritional values of things, but I am getting there. So if a bag of Pork rinds is approximately 2 oz. in reality, I could eat a whole bag, with no carbs, 400 calories, 25 grams of fat, and 40 grams of protein????(And I have done this on occasion!!!!!)
And I love them!!! I remember eating them as a kid, and everyone thought I was nuts.

Glenda

Of course you could! You can also stay up as late as you want and run with scissors if you felt like it! ;)

Seriously, too many pork rinds can cause water retention because of the salt and can stall some people. YMMV.

Karen

Just a clarification.

The Old Dutch brand is an 80g bag. The serving size is 14g, so there are 5.7servings per bag (where do they come up with these numbers?) An 80g bag is approximately 3 ounces (I monitor calories as well as carbs, so it could be important to someone else as well).

Anyway, when fitday does its thing (like presenting a Cup of pork rinds or 1 Large Piece of jerky) I go to the USDA database where there is a weight and size option, and PLAIN porkrinds, like these, are there by weight. I use those numbers and a calculator to figure out a bag's worth of carbs, fat and protein, whichever bag or brand I've got, and then plug those in as a Custom ingredient in either Fitday or Mastercook.

Then how much of the bag I might use is easily calculated. It's easier to figure out a half or quarter bag than a 6th, for instance.

Hope this helps.

You could calculate whether their count is correct:

The nutritional info for a serving size of 14g is:
Calories 80
Total Fat 5g ~ 9 calories per gram of fat = 45 calories
Cholesterol 15mg (included in fat)
Sodium 230mg
Total Carbohydrates 0g ~ 4 cal. per gm = 0 calories
Protein 8g ~ 4 calories per gram = 32 calories
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Total calories = 77 calories
(so their figures are pretty good, assuming they round the numbers off.) This is a good way to find out if the manufacturer is telling the truth about the carb count. Figure out the protein & fat calories & what is left must be carbs. Remember that if the carb count is less than 1 gm, the maker can call it Zero carbs. Even 0.99 gm. So your 5.7 servings could have 5.6 carbs and still be "correctly reported" on the label.

110 gm = 3 ounces by weight. So if the bag weighs 3 ounces, you can have the whole bag and not eat any appreciable carbs. But beware, in the end, the number of calories DO count in successful losing. It's the type of calories we LCers are changing.

Your calculation method is pretty close (and I use it all the time when I can't use the Hidden Carbs calculator from the Tools menu off the orange menu bar above), Tofi.

However, 1 ounce in weight is 28.34 grams so 110g = 3.9oz or close enough to 4 ounces as makes no difference, not 3. The 80g bag we have under discussion here is very close to 3 oz, as mentioned. This can make a difference to insulin users who must count every gram, for instance, so I thought it best to clarify.

Also, Canadian labelling law is such that where there IS a Nutrition Information label, it must be in 10ths of a gram, it's not rounded as in the States on their Nutritional Facts label (where they round to the nearest half-gram by the way, so 0.49g can be declared as 0 and 1.49g can be declared as 1g, etc.).

My old Dutch bag in Canada is 100 gram bag and 50 grams(27 pieces) is a serving is:
270 calories
Fat 18 g
Carb 0
Protein 29 g