Hi,
I was just wondering everyone's view on counting calories on shrimp.
I eat the large shrimp and weigh them before cooking. Would the calories for them be with the tail or without the tail. the Bag of shrimp has a calorie count. With out this information.
It seems like one would cut the tail off and then count the calories???

Have any clues to the proper way??
As of now I am counting the whole thing, even though I don't eat the one section.

I count the calories in the shrimp post-peeling. I don't cut off the tail though, I just peel off the shell. If for some reason you're not eating the tails, then I'd weigh after you've prepped them. (You can eat the tails though...there's nothing wrong with shrimp tails... )

Eww! I'd forgotten people like you exist

I think the shells are extremely lightweight, like paper, and shouldn't impact the weight much, especially since they are so low in calories. If I'm weighing before I cook them, then I include the shell.

I weigh and count calories for what I actually eat. (Same with bananas and the likes... why count calories for a skin I'm not going to eat?) Unless all of those calories counters out there take the tail etc. into account, but this doesn't make much sense to me. (Now I hope I haven't been doing things wrong all that time, haha. )

Kery -- I noticed that the USDA site for nutritional information lists the percentage of refuse it assumes at the top of each food-specific chart. So, if you want the nutritional information for 5 oz of bone-in pork chop, the site would give you calories for the portion of the chop you actually eat (probably not the bone!) by assuming some percentage of waste. The waste percentage is based on averages across pork chops. (The USDA has, or at least had in a better-funded era, a small army of food testers whose job it was to measure such things as average waste in a bone-in pork chop. Now, there's a job...)

I don't know how other on-line calorie counters handle waste, but the few that I've checked out are simply porting over the USDA data, at least for foods that aren't branded.

Kim

Uh, I don't know either. :/ I mostly use calories listings on a couple of French sites, and they tend to give the amount of calories per 100g, so I just weight what I'm going to eat and calculate according to that... I'm not sure at all if they include some percentage of refuse in it.

Of course, it wasn't complicated enough before that, now we have to keep that in mind as well...

I buy shrimp (or prawns ) peeled, with the tails on, and the nutritional value on the bag is per shrimp, so I always calculate them as they come - for example, 10 medium pacific white shrimp are 80 calories - so if I eat 10, then that's 80 calories, whether I eat the tails (I don't - but the parrot LOVES them! ) or not.

Heather

This is actually a thing? This not eating of shrimp tails??? I've never heard of such a thing. They taste exactly the same as all the other parts of the shrimp.

How weird. I'm a long time picky eater and it's never even occurred to me to object to the tails.

At any rate, if you're not eating the tails, cut them off before you weigh them. I don't add on 'extra' weight or calories because I do actually eat them

thanks for the opinions ladies.
I eat lots of shrimp. No tails. I am going to check the USDA SITE. and probably will start weighing after the tail is removed.