According to this calorie website (can’t find any consistent macro info on this type of potato) this is pushing 450 calories, and that can’t be right.
…right?? Do you guys have any experience with this type of potato or am I calculating wrong?
by skittlez_lmao
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One site I see says that 114g of Japanese sweet potato is 103 calories. Normal sweet potato is 90 cal for 100g so your numbers seem high
Weighed raw, 100g Japanese sweet potato is 90g from what I’ve gathered online. So 285g (weighed raw) is 257 calories
there’s no way that’s 442 calories. Regular sweet potatoes are way less.
Japanese sweet potatoes are a diet food in Japan/Korea fwiw.
Is this a white, orange, or purple one? And what site did you use?
Are you using some website where users can input numbers or are you looking it up on official database from government?
A large one can have quite a bit of calories. But they are very filling
I think you’re looking at a cooked entry. MFP says 86 calories per 100g raw.
Alright, this is something I’ve been wondering about myself, so I did some digging. The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has this huge report of nutrition information for common Japanese ingredients and foods. According to that, a raw Japanese sweet potato with the skin on is 140 calories per 100g. A raw Japanese sweet potato without skin is 134 calories per 100g. Googling this stuff can give you a huge range of different calorie counts, but I feel like this is probably the most accurate.
The report can be found here if you’re interested: [https://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/syokuhinseibun/1365419.htm](https://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/syokuhinseibun/1365419.htm)
Logging these damn things is the bane of my existence cause I LOVEEE these and could eat them 24/7 but I am usually guesstimating how many cals are actually in them