pistachio
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i wonder if anyone knows the answer to this one. i have used a 425g of safcol tuna for this analysis, but any tin seems to be the same. ok, so here's the deal.
a 425g tin of tuna contains 4 serves of 75g by drained weight (going by the nutritional panel).
the ingredients are 70% tuna, 15% oil, water and salt.
now 4 serves of 75g = 300g = 70%, so it stands to reason that the nutritional panel refers to the nutritional info of the TUNA ONLY.
SO, if you eat the whole tin, are you getting what is on the nutritional panel + 15% of 425g of olive oil? This amounts to about 64g of olive oil, which is obviously significant if you are calorie counting.
So, does the nutritional panel include the nutritional info of the olive oil? It seems as if it does not, as it refers to drained weight and it adds up to 300g, which is 70% of the tin weight, which is the listed ingredient % of tuna.
If it doesn't, that means if you eat a large tin of tuna you need to add 64g of fat to the total macros! :O
a 425g tin of tuna contains 4 serves of 75g by drained weight (going by the nutritional panel).
the ingredients are 70% tuna, 15% oil, water and salt.
now 4 serves of 75g = 300g = 70%, so it stands to reason that the nutritional panel refers to the nutritional info of the TUNA ONLY.
SO, if you eat the whole tin, are you getting what is on the nutritional panel + 15% of 425g of olive oil? This amounts to about 64g of olive oil, which is obviously significant if you are calorie counting.
So, does the nutritional panel include the nutritional info of the olive oil? It seems as if it does not, as it refers to drained weight and it adds up to 300g, which is 70% of the tin weight, which is the listed ingredient % of tuna.
If it doesn't, that means if you eat a large tin of tuna you need to add 64g of fat to the total macros! :O