Which has more calories?
Ten rounds, two toppings each, in the portions people really use. Tap the one with more calories, or About the same when they're within 15.
Which has more calories?
What your score means
Most people miss the rounds where something light-looking (a spoon of oil, two spoons of ranch) is as big as something that looks like food (a palm of chicken, half a cup of chickpeas). Your eyes judge food by its size, and dressing and nuts pack a lot of calories into very little space. The fix is to count those two by the spoon and the handful, and to stop counting the leaves, which barely move the total.
Do it once with your own bowl in the bowl builder: put in what you usually add and see which layer is the biggest number. For most salads it's the dressing, then the cheese or nuts.
Where the numbers come from
Every portion is counted from the same USDA rows the bowl builder uses. The head of romaine is the USDA Standard Reference row: 626 g at 17 calories per 100 g, about 106 calories.
4 sources
- Gebhardt SE, Thomas RG. Nutritive Value of Foods. USDA ARS, Home and Garden Bulletin 72, 2002ars.usda.gov
- USDA Standard Reference, salad dressing, regular, caesar (nutritionvalue.org)nutritionvalue.org
- USDA Standard Reference, salad dressing, ranch, regular (nutritionvalue.org)nutritionvalue.org
- USDA Standard Reference, lettuce, cos or romaine, raw (nutritionvalue.org)nutritionvalue.org
