Pasta Salad how much mayo is safe?
#342858 - 03/05/09 10:16 AM
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emmasmom
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I am wanting to make a pasta salad I use trader joes reduce fat mayo its dairy free it says 3 grams of fat how much can I use of this and stil be safe? thanks
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It depends on what else is in the salad. The goal is to get the percent of calories from fat down to 25% so what I do is figure out how many calories are in the salad from everything but the mayo then do the math to figure out how much mayo I can use. If you loved high school algebra as much as I did, it's kind of fun.
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Thanks for the answer just veggies like mushroom zuchunnie carrots and so on maybe some egg whites. I was never good at math it was my least favorite subject and still is.
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If you're not adding anything with significant calories other than the pasta here's the simplest thing to do.
Each DRY cup of pasta has about 280 calories. For each DRY cup of pasta you can use 93 calories worth of mayonnaise.
Assuming each Tablespoon of your mayo has 3 grams of fat that means it has about 27 calories per tablespoon.
So for each DRY cup of pasta you can use about 3-1/2 Tablespoons of mayo.
Here's the math:
3-1/2 Tablespoons of your mayo has 94.5 calories.
One DRY cup of pasta has 280 calories.
Combine the two and you have 374.5 total calories.
Divide the 94.5 fat calories by the 374.5 total calories to get the percent of calories from fat:
94.5 / 374.5 = .2523 = 25%
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