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01/11/04 04:24 PM
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Heather
Reged: 12/09/02
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Loc: Seattle, WA
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Six grams of fat equals 54 fat calories (because fats have 9 calories per gram). What you care about is how much of the calories in these egg rolls comes from fat. So - what is the total calorie count per egg roll? Then look at the calorie count from fat per egg roll. That is the number you want to be under 25% or so.
Example - the egg roll has 300 calories. 54 of those calories are from fat. That's only 1/6th the total calorie count, or less than 20%, so no problem. But if that eggroll only has 100 calories, and 54 are from fat, that means more than half of that eggroll is pure fat. Too much!
As a really general rule, try to keep your fat calories to less than 100 per snack, and less than 200 per meal. That's about 1 tablespoon of fat for those 100 calories. If you actually measure out 1 T of oil, you'll see that that's a pretty good amount, and you don't want to eat more than that all at once. This is a really general rule, okay? Things will vary by how much you're eating, how much soluble fiber, etc. But IN GENERAL, if the fat calories are over 100 per serving for the label you're reading, that's too much.
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