I basically have known the calorie count for every fruit and veggie since I was 15 years old, so I thought. My mom and I used to count calories way back when and we would always split a grapefruit with our breakfast and we called it 40 calories, (for 1/2). Every calorie book in the world back then said a grapefruit was 80 calories. So I buy a bag of grapefruit the other day and I was taking one out and I notice the nutritional information on the bag. It said one grapefruit was 120 calories. WHAT??? My whole life a medium size grapefruit was 80 calories...lol
When you look up calorie info on fruit I would assume it includes the skin. Like an apple for example. Most of us eat the skin. A peach, a pear...we eat the skin, so I assume the calorie counts include the skin, but with citrus fruit most of us discard the skin and the membranes. So are the calorie counts for citrus only for the actual fruit, or is the skin also included in the count?