Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Percent CFF - what it means, my number is lower (yay!)

I think you've got hold of the wrong end of the stick. The 25% mark is the percent of calories from fat, not the raw calories from fat per serving. In your original analysis, you were reporting 42% of calories from fat - that's the number you would have had to compare to the 25% mark, not the 21 calories from fat per cookie.

Second, my brain doesn't work the way yours does - I can't do carb cals and fat cals. I have to look at total calories and calories from fat for each ingredient, add it up, then see what we've got. Here are my numbers (dad-ratted proportional font):

Ingredient-------------Calories----- CFF
2 cups sugar------------1440--------0
1/2 cup vegetable oil------960------960
4tbs oil------------------480------480
12tbs cocoa--------------240-------60
2 tsp vanilla----------------0--------0
4 eggs(8 egg whites)-------120--------0
2 cups flour---------------800-------0
2 tsp baking powder----------0-------0
1/2 tsp salt-----------------0--------0
1 cup powdered sugar-------480-------0

Total calories for the whole recipe: 4520
CFF for the whole recipe: 1500

% CFF: 33%

My 33% CFF is better than your original 42% CFF, but still well over the 25% of calories from fat that Heather recommends as a maximum. However, 33% CFF is within the range of many desserts both on the Board and in EFI.

So, I say go for it, but remember to have these after a high SF meal and not too many at one time. Let us know how they turn out. I gather that cookies are one of the hardest things to get a good flavor/texture for under the EFI guidelines, so if these work out - hurray!

BTW, even if the 42% CFF is the correct number, I can show you a couple of dessert recipes in EFI that beat that, so I would still say go for it - just be even more careful. The trick is that when you average together whatever else you've eaten before your cookie with your cookie, you need to be in the 25% neighborhood.

HTH.

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