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Oof. Serving size: 1 0unce ; fourteen servings per container 110 calories, 5 from fat Total Fat: 1g, saturated fat 0g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 200mg Total Carbohydrate: 24g Dietary fiber: 2g Sugars: 0g Protein: 3g Vitamin A: 0% Vitamin C: 0% Calcium: 4% Iron: 2%
putayter chips?
No, but probably close enough. Differentiating between potatoes and corn after they've been through that particular process is done only by taste. So you're up. :)
okie doke: tomato puree (water, toamto paste), water, cooked enriched macaroni product (flour enriched with niacin, ferrous sulfate thiamine mono-nitrate and riboflavin), high fructose corn syrup, salt, enzyme modified cheddar cheese (cheddar cheese [milk, cheese culture, salt, enzyme], water disodium phosphate), vegetable oil (corn, cottonseed or partially hydrogenated soybean oil), enzyme modified butter, oleoresin paprika, spice extract, citric acid and nonfat dry milk.
SpaghettiOO's (or however it's spelled).
YAY!!!
(Does #484 mean i actually got it, or ?????)
methinks so.
yup
Go for it, Doc!
Serving Size: 1 T Per Container: about 47 Calories: 20 from fat: 10 Total fat: 1.5g 2% Saturated: 1g 4% Cholesterol: 0mg 0% Sodium 0mg 0% Total Carbs: 3g 1% Diet. Fiber: 1g 6% Sugars: 0g Protein: 1g Vitamin A, C, Calcium: 0% Iron: 4%
Jim guesses Miracle Whip. (No eggs?)
I'd think Miracle Whip would have loads more fat and sodium. In any case, it's not that.
Miracle Whip Lite, he meant. But you are right about the sodium. Half its calories from fat sounds like a lot to us. Some kind of unsalted spread?
The numbers in resp:489 don't add up right.
* 1.5 gm fat = 13.5 calories (not 10 as stated on the label)
* 3 gm carb = 12.0 calories
* 1 gm protein = 4.0 calories
for a total of 29.5 calories, not 20.
Labels are often wrong. A 2-pound container of feta cheese says servings are 1 oz and there are 500 servings. A package of bamboo shoots claims to have 0 g fiber. The people who make the rules about labels must not read them very closely, or else only read the fat and cholesterol info, currently in fashion.
Neither Miracle Whip Lite nor any unsalted spread. I checked the numbers in #489 against the label - they're "right". My guess is that 1.5 g fat means 1.5 +/-.25 g fat, etc. and they don't count the calories in the fiber.
Also, 10 cal means 1O +/- 5 cal. And I'm pretty sure you're right about the fiber calories being defined as 0. Hmmm... no salt or sugar at all. It must not be American. :-)
The mystery food up in #489 isn't incredibly obscure or hard to guess.... BUT YOU GOTTA PLAY TO WIN! :)
peanut butter?
only if it's all-natural
1 T of peanut butter has far more grams of 'most everything....especially fat (though much less of it is saturated).
(the serving size suggests something like a condiment or a mix orf some sort. the lack of sugar is definitely confusing, even though it *should* help to narrow it down. "half" the calories from fat suggests ... is it cocoa?)
And the label says........ Ghirardelli Premium Unsweetened Cocoa! ...so carson's up next.
(oh my. I guessed it from looking at a can of Hershey's. cool.) :)
(ok... here's the stuff for my food:)
Nutrition facts
Serving size 1/4 cup (40g)
Servings per container about 11
Amount per serving
Calories 130
% Daily Value*
Total fat 0g 0%
Saturated fat 0g 0%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 10mg 0%
Potassium 310mg 9%
Total carbohydrate 31g 10%
Dietary fiber 2g 9%
Sugars 29g
Protein 1g
Calcium 2% Iron 6%
(the asterix is the standard "based on 2000 calorie diet" disclaimer. the
box also says that the food is "not a significant source of vitamin A and
vitamin C.")
(finally, I'll note that some numbers don't add up exactly. it's a 2.5 cup
container, 425g. hope that helps!)
Sugar with some minerals added. Kool-Aid? Tang? Honey? Maple syrup? Sorghum? (What would one do with a 'serving' of sorghum?). 40 g - about 1.5 ounces -1/4 cup, so it is not liquid, but a powder, cancel the honey and sorghum.
Not Tang; not enough Vitamin C. But I don't have a food to post, so I'm not going to guess. :/
(not Kool-Aid, not Tang, not honey, not maple syrup, not sorghum... and not a powder. I am amazed, however, that you've guessed three of the items I'd considered using.)
Is it come kind of powdered drink mix?
Sugar also weighs nearly 2 ounces/quarter cup, I guess. Sugar is not considered a powder, unless it is powdered.
(not a powdered drink, and not sugar. seriously, it's not powdered.)
Maple candy.
(not maple candy, but that's closer.)
You mean not refined cane sugar. It has to be some type of sugar plus a few minerals, according to the nutrition label. Candy is mostly sugar, so is maple syrup (sugar plus water plus whatever minerals the tree needed).
Molasses maybe? That wouold explain the iron content.
(yes, it's sugar plus minerals, but that's misleading. no, it's not molasses. yes, it's a common food.) ;)
remember it has fiber, but not a lot. No cholesterol, so it's a plant product. A wee bit of salt, but lots of potassium. Hmm. Dried banana chips?
(that's the closest guess anyone's made yet, lilmo. no, it's not dried banana chips.) (side note: I'm not sure where the sodium comes from. it's not added as an ingredient.)
Is banana part of it?
(no, banana is not part of it.)
dried apple?
(no, not dried apple.)
Some other dried fruit?
(please be more specific.) :^)
Dried mangos?
(not dried mangoes.)
Is it some other dried fruit? (if it's not, I don't want to read pages and pages of different kinds of dried fruit being guessed.)
Prunes!
ooh...good guess.
(ok, yes, it's a dried fruit. no, it's not prunes. I *think* there's only one more common dried fruit left to guess.) ;)
figs or dates
cranberries?
(not figs, not dates, not cranberries...)
dingleberries?
{Would someone please guess "raisins"? I don't wanna put up a description.}
<slaps forehead> raisins?
Neither did I. :> A friend with a dehydrator has been experimenting - dried bananas, dried kiwi fruits, tomatoes, avocadoes (don't work well, too greasy), apples, pears, peaches (these are a sticky mess, we have tried them), peppers. We buy dried sweet potatoes from China, I think they are first boiled in sugar. Dried litchis, dried jujubes (some are smoked), dried persimmons (flattened), dried lotus root, chestnuts (presoak, cook with rice gruel), haws (for tea).
What are haws?
(raisins it is. ;) Mr. Velleman, you're up.)
Serving Size 2 tbsp (30ml) Servings per container about 12 Amount Per Serving 2 tbsp 1/2 cup Calories 40 150 Calories from fat 20 80 Total Fat 2g* 3% 13% Saturated Fat 1.5g 7% 27% Cholesterol 10mg 3% 10% Sodium 30mg 1% 5% Potassium 90mg 3% 10% Total Carbohydrate 3g 1% 4% Sugars 3g Protein 2g *Amoung in 2 tbsp Vitamin A 0% 6% Calcium 8% 30% Vitamin D 6% 25% Riboflavin 6% 25% Phosphorous 6% 20%
butter? Haws grow on hawthorn trees, which grow around the A2 public library next to the parking lot. They have smelly white little flowers, and then small red fruits that hang on through the winter. The Chinese ones have larger fruits and are eaten by people, ours are eaten by birds ones they get hungry enough. They are small trees with large thorns and a tendency for form a thicket. Blackhaws are also edible, and unrelated. Viburnum species. Hawthorn is Crataegus and there are wild species of it and cultivated ones.
Butter is not half fat, but ALL fat. Also, I don't think it has any sugar or protein, or other nutritional value (vitamins & minerals). I'll guess peanut butter
Butter: 1 tbsp is 14.2 g, of which 16% is water, 100 kcal energy, 1 g protein, 92 g fat, two thirds of that saturated. It contains some calcium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, lots of salt in the salted variety, 106 units of vitamin A (fat-soluble vitamin, none is found in olive oil), no vitamin C, minute amounts of other vitamins. In other words, not all the milk solids or even water are removed when making cream into butter and buttermilk. It is mostly, but not all, fat. Lard has no water and almost no vitamins or minerals (a bit of zinc). Margarine has vitamin A added, and sodium (salt). Olive oil has a bit of iron. You are right, butter is not half fat.
Not butter, nor peanut butter. Nor haws neither, just for the record.
Peanuts have no cholesterol. This is some animal product, cheese spread?
ear wax?
It is an animal product, indirectly, but it isn't cheese spread or earwax.
Looks like a dairy product.....
<nods>
thank you for the correction, keesan
Sour cream?
Closer in terms of texture, but still no.
A "lite" cream cheese?
nope. this is proving harder than I expected....I'll give a hint as soon as I can think of one.
Yogurt?
Not yogurt. But it is a dairy product that has had something done to it. It is not eaten as it comes, but rather is used as an ingredient, or has what was done to it reversed.
powdered milk?
Condensed milk? (add water)
Keesan has it.
Would anyone else like 'it'? I have already entered lots of foods. Happyboy, do you have anything you would like to enter? You came pretty close to the answer. (Or do people really want to be guessing things like preserved mangosteen, as we have very few other foods with nutrition labels).
you do it! you do it!
If happyboy does not want to be 'it', any other volunteers? People tend to have a tough time guessing the only sorts of food that we have around with labels on them (dried seaweed, pumpkin seeds, pomegranate syrup).
No volunteers? This time I will post an easy one. As usual, it is a single ingredient rather than a mixture, and this time it is something that you can buy in a supermarket or even probably a small grocery store. Since we buy everything in bulk (or pick it ourselves) the nutrition info is from a book: 1 cup 234 g 85% water (in prepared form) 145 kcal 6 g protein 25.2 g carb 9.23 g fiber 2.4 gg fat (sat .44, mono .84 polyunsat 1) cholesterol none, calcium 20 mg, iron 1.59 mg, Mg 56 mg, potassium 132 g sodium 1 mg (without salt added), zinc 1.15 mg, A 1.15 RE, no C, reasonable amounts of B vitamins
soybeans?
Soybeans have more fat:10 grams per cup cooked. 235 kcal (double, probably due to the fat) and 19.8 g protein. Not soybeans but your'e sort of in the right category, something dry that you cook.
oatmeal?
You are IT! (No backing out this time, you guessed right). This must be a new record for fast guessing.
Ingredienser: Honsekod 42% Svinekod 23%, Vand 22%, Oksekod 8%, Salt 2%, Krydderurter, Krydderier, Maelkeprotein, Stabilisator: E451, Antioxidant: E300, Konserverings- middel: E250.
Wurst?
Pate de fois gras? With a bit of fat pig thrown in? Looks like the Swedes/Dane/Norwegians or whatever this is have different labelling rules than the USA, where you only list ingredients in order and don't know where the 2% cutoff is, allowing manufacturers to make honey coated peanuts with a tiny trace of honey added to the white sugar. Interesting.
re567: what kind? :P
Worst.
you get it...some sort of import *Coctail Polser* :)
What was the language?
i dunno, but there were lot's of funny things by the letters and a line thru the O
I think that is Danish. Swedish would have .. over the o instead. Is there any hint on the package, such as Kobenhavn?
Serv Size 1/2 C Calories 80 Fat Cal 0 SatFat 0 Cholest 0 mg Sodium 760 mg Total Carb 19g Fiber 1 g Sugars 11 g Protein 2 gm Vit A 10% Vit C 10% Calcium 2% Iron 2%
Sauerkraut
nope
Sauerkraut has more fiber and less sugar (the sugar has mostly been fermented to lactic acid. I have made sauerkraut. Don't think there is much Vit A).
Only one guess since Monday. Clue 1: Although the serving size is 1/2 cup one would usually dilute this food.
Canned soup? Tomato soup in a can? (tomatoes are sweet, soup is salty)
Hrmph. Musta made it too easy. Yes, this is classic Campbells Tomato Soup.
Would somebody else please enter something? (Yes, your clue was far too revealing - I could not think of any other 1/2 cup that gets diluted.) If I enter something it will most likely not be easy.
Really, you don't want to be guessing Chinese olives (not related to the European ones). Someone with American eating habits please enter something.
I'm not in regular contact wiht packaged food; I just eat whatever the dining halls give me. If you want a really sadistic one, I might be able to swipe a few nutrition information cards....
Go to it!
Jim decided it is his turn. No nutrition label on this one, it came by UPS in a box, in bulk. 1 cup 143 g 40% water 350 kcal 4.5 g protein 75.7 g carbohydrates 18.5 g fiber 3.1 g fat (poly or mono unsaturated) no cholesterol Minerals: 42 mg Ca, 1.3 mg iron, 47 g Mg, 153 g phos 846 g K 3 g Na Not a whole lot of vitamins other than 1.92 g niacin 100 g folacin (For comparison 1 cup cottage cheese has 135 g Ca,.26 g iron, 11 g Mg, 297 g P 190 g K 911 g Na, .30 g niacin, 27 g folacin, making this mystery item relatively high in calcium, iron, magnesium, and potassium/sodium ratio. Cottage cheese has 0 fiber and 34 cholesterol.)
Clues - as always this is not someone's prepared mixture but a single food, and there is mention of it in winter agora in one item.
In the title of the item.
It's gotta be either the reindeers or the chestnuts. :)
You got it. Reindeers are not high in fiber or carbohydrates. We have frozen most of our chestnuts. They boil up like new and we put them in our oatmeal, mix them with green beans, etc. Very sweet flavor.
Serving size: 30g (lots per container) Calories: 90 (5 from fat) Total Fat 1g 2% Total Carb. 22g 7% D. Fiber 5g 20% Protein 3g Iron 4% (Saturated Fat, Cholesterol, Sugars, Sodium, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and Calcium: 0%)
30 g per serving implies that the carbohydrate is sugar rather than starch, and Dr. Chocolate implies that there is chocolate in it somewhere. Right? Jim says 30 g is about 1 oz, or 2 tbps. (He learned this in nursing class). A spread of some sort? Jim says 'raspberry jam'? (It would at least go well with chocolate). I say it can't be, no Vitamin C. Peanut butter is too oily.
It's buried at the bottom, but the label proclaims 0% for sugar. A bit of arithmetic: 30g (serving) - 1g (fat) - 22g (carb.) - 3g (protein) = 4g for everything else. 30g is about 1 oz.....*if* this food's density is about the same as that of liquid water. (If you're talking weight oz's instead of fluid oz's, the 30g thing is true regardless....but then 1 oz may not equal 2 T.) I've been calling myself "Dr. Chocolate" in the cf. for years, so it might not be safe to make the assumption...
Jim asks 'rice cracker'? No salt, no sugar, no chocolate. No fun. :} (Jim asks why not :) - I tell him that } shows his beard)
Not rice crackers....much closer, though.
Wonder Bread or some variation on it without added vitamins?
The food has *way* too much fiber to be any member of the WonderSponge family. You're right that no vitamins (or minerals) were added.
Would someobody else please guess at this one? Nobody wants to be guessing at the sort of food we would post if we guessed right. Bran?
It's only 1/6 dietary fiber (by weight). Is any sort of "bran" that fiber-poor? (You are getting closer to the identity of this upstanding member of the cerials food group;)
wheat germ?
Wheat germ contains more protein and fat, but less carbo's than this food. Besides, there's no wheat in it.
Corn chips, baked?
It's not a ready-to-eat food. And corn can't match this food's fiber content.
Oatmeal? (says Jim) Quinoa? Looks like one of these dry cereals but they are ready to eat. Wheaties have about the right ratio but you said no wheat, and not ready to eat. Someone else please guess. If we win again we will enter one of those things we just bought at the Chinese grocery store (not the pickled pomelos).
It's a dry cereal(grain), but not a dry cereal(breakfast).
Who would eat just 30 g (1 oz) of a dry cereal? Cereals: millet, sorghum, rye, barley, oats, teff, rice. Buckwheat is not a grain. Amaranth. Spelt and kamut are types of wheat, as are emmer and einkorn. We cook grains by the 8 or 16 ounces. You can make noodles from corn, wheat, mung beans, or sweet potato starch.
It's rye flour. The 30 g is probably what you'd get from a couple slices of rye bread. Who wants to pose a mystery food next?
But who would cook with 30g rye flour?
Well, the 30g is about 1/4 C....so if there's 2 C of rye flour in the loaf of rye bread that you make, and you eat 1/8 of the loaf in your sandwich, then you've gotten about 30g of rye flour. Same principle as the nutritional info on a box of baking soda. The 1/8 t serving size doesn't represent the amount used in any recipe, but how much baking soda they expect one person to get when homemade biscuits are served with dinner.
I make loaves with 4 cups flour and eat half a loaf at a sitting, or more. Jim eats a whole loaf.
You have several choices: