277 new of 610 responses total.
Salad croutons?
Not croutons, but you're warmer...
breadcrumbs?
Ooh, that's a good one.
How's about stuffing mix?
Keesan has it in #336 - it's breadcrumbs. The nutrition facts were from a box of Progresso seasoned breadcrumbs.
We have nothing else in the house with a nutrition label besides oil and vinegar, so I will resort to my nutrition textbook's appendix. This is something I am eating at the moment, but did not come commercially packaged in my case. 1 oz, 28 g, 7% water, 154 kcal protein 7 g carb 5.1 g fiber 1.54 g fat 13 g sat fat 2.46 g mono 4.05 g poly 9 g chol 0 (we are vegans) calc 12 mg iron 4.25 mg magn 152 mg phos 333 mg pota 229 mg sodi 5 mg zinc 2.12 mg VT-A (vitamin A) 11 RE thia .06 mg ribo .09 mg niac .50 mg B6 .06 mg fola 26 mg Vit C trace This is a seasonal food. Should be easy to guess.
This should be very easy to guess, especially if you have been reading other items. What has no cholesterol, lots of fat and fiber, and is eaten one ounce at a time? And is seasonal?
Whatever it is has 7 gm of protein too. There aren't too many vegetable foods with a nutrition profile like that. Too much fat for tofu, though... <remmers ponders>
Tofu has a lot more water.
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No. But they do fit all my clues and we have a lot of them. Chestnuts are, I think, mostly carbohydrate rather than fat.
Someone please name all the seasonal foods for this month.
Pumpkin, cranberries, turkey, "yams", perhaps various sorts of nuts, >next, please<
The answer is in one of those things you listed.
Pumpkin seeds, cranberry seeds, turkey innards, or am i taking your "in" too literally?
Nope, you got it (the first guess). This delicacy was being discussed in detail in another item at the time I chose it. Turkey innards have cholesterol. Seeds don't. I told you this one was easy.
Trust keesan to be eating unsalted pumpkin seeds! 5 demerits for i for not checking on the cholesterol in #340. Anyone else want to enter a mystery food?
Vegans don't eat a lot of cholesterol. We cook our own seeds, no salt needed. I really tried hard to make this one easy.
Since cholesterol is found only in animal products, I'd think that vegans eat zero cholesterol.
Last i knew, keesan (and Jim) would occasionally eat ovo-lacto stuff (cholesterol, not that turkey innards qualify). I've talked to a number of vegans who are (or claim to be) far more interested in the "no exploiting or abusing animals" aspect than in non-consumption of animal products. Some of them come across as willing to try steak & eggs at a farmer's dinner table if they knew & approved of the way that Buttercup & the hens were treated...... #include <drift.h> #include <drift.c> Anyone interested in entering a new mystery food?
Jim is trying not to abuse the planet.
I'll enter something by midnight tommorow. Get your thinking caps out, I promise you that it will not be easy.
OK get out your thinking caps.
Serving size 8oz
_________________
Servings per container-2
Calories 140 From Fat 0
Total Fat 0
Sodium 35
Total Carb 38g
Sugars 38g
Protein 0g
Vitamin C 100%
Good luck kiddies.
Frozen orange juice?
Sugar with Vit C added and maybe some flavoring. Koolaid? Or some other premixed sugar-water drink.
remmers is in the neighborhood. No, it is NOT kool-aid.
Orange juice or any other real juice does not have 100% of any vitamin, this looks like they added some exact amount. Or else the 100% figure is wrong. I have seen apple juice with Vit C added.
Well this could go on for years, but essentially remmers got it. It's cranberry uice. take it rembo.
Oh no! (Actually, I've given my share recently, I think. If somebody wants to jump in with a new puzzler, please feel free. If nobody does, and I haven't completely forgotten about it, maybe I'll post something in a few days...)
Serving size: 2 Tbsp, about 5 per container Calories: 30 Total Fat: 0g 0% Sodium: 20mg 1% Total Carb.: 6g 2% Fiber: 1g 6% Sugars: 3g Protein: 2g Vitamin A: 10% Vitamin C: 10% Calcium: 0% Iron: 0%
(Hm, almost 2 months between my resp:363 and i's poser in resp:364 so I guess I completely forgot about it...) That's a pretty tiny serving size - 2 Tbsp. Suggests some kind of sauce or topping. Or maybe powdered drink mix. (I'm not guessing at this stage, just thinking out loud.)
<i figured it was about time for a resurrection attempt & a label was handy>
Chocolate tends to have fat in it, what else is half sugar? Some sort of drink mix with powdered milk in it? And vitamins added?
??? If it was getting the protein from powdered milk, they're be lots more calcium in it. Not sure if you think 3g of sugar in 2T is "half sugar", or you're just noting that half the total carbo's are sugar.
I will take a closer look at the nutrition facts. (If it is nutrition information, the can is out of date, I just learned).
About 20-25% protein, and a lot of sugar, in a small container. No fat. Jim is thinking, hmmmm. No ideas yet. We can only guess the single ingredient stuff easily.
Could you let us know the number of ingredients? Or some other hint?
His Snordship is on the right track. This food's nutritional profile is mostly due to it's main ingredient.
Hello, out there!!! Anybody home??? :) There's only one ingredient in this mystery food.
Peanuts? (Wild guess, but we just bought 25 pounds of them raw). Is your ingredient whole or refined?
No fat & little protein, so peanuts don't have much of a chance. The ingredient is (as i would use the words) neither raw nor refined.
Carbohydrates (sugar) and protein, high in vitamins A and C, 10 tbps per container? Some fiber. Fruit or vegetable? Not a seed if it has no fat, but high in protein. Not refined so no fat removed. Dried potato?
Yes, a fruit or veggie; no, not dried spuds.
Beans? What else has that much protein? Soybeans have fat.
Not beans. This food is not usually considered high in protein.
Half the carbohydrates are sugar, some sort of fruit? What sort of unrefined fruit comes in tablespoons? No sugar added jam? Apricot jam? High in vitamins A and C.
Not apricot nor jam. Note how i talked around the "refined" issue in #375. I'd call it a fruit.
Dried fruit? Dried tomatoes? Is sugar-added not considered refined?
Not dried anything. I wouldn't call sugar-added "refined"....but no sugar has been added to this food.
Fruit?
I'd call it a fruit.
Tomato? Pepper? Eggplant? (Solanaceae)
Tomato paste.
Dried fruit, like I said. We like ajvar, which is Macedonian or Bulgarian and is a combination of cooked peppers, eggplant and tomato with spices, sort of boiled down to thick. Available at big market in spicy or less spicy. If anyone else is reading this item please come up with a mystery food (and if you want me to guess at it I do better at single ingredient stuff). Or I will enter something interesting from an ethnic food store again. We just ran out of peanut oil and went shopping. What does one do with only 2 tbps tomato paste?
I don't think of tomato paste as a dried fruit because it's not dry. I'd guess they figure 2T is the amount each person gets from the little can of tomato paste after you mix it into a pot of spaghetti sauce and serve it to your family.
Jim's contribution, nutritional values are from a nutrition book: 1 cup, 175 g, 586 kcal, 20.5 g protein, 128 g carb, 15.6 g fiber, 4.2 g fat of which .81 sat 1.4 mono 1.51 poly-unsaturated, no chol calc 200, iron 6.7 Magn 315 Phos 494 Pota 784 Sodi 4 Zinc 4.4 (mg) VT-A 0 Thia 1.05 Ribo .26 Niac 7.7 V-B6 .37 Fola 52 Vt-C o (mg) (Vt-A is in RE) We have some of this product but packaged without nutrition label. The amount I would use for two of us is about one cup ( 2 servings). Oh, H2O (%) 11. For comparison chocolate milk is 82% water, meat about 50%, yellow cake with chocolate frosting (2 layer cake) 23%, and chocolate chip cookies home recipe only 3% and macademia nuts 2%. Lettuce 96% water.
some kind of bulk dry breakfast cereal?
We are trying to remember just what Jim's entry was. You are close as far as 'cereal' and 'bulk' but it needs further cooking to be eaten for breakfast, and is generally mixed with a few other ingredients. Not just dumped into a bowl and milk added, or simply boiled.
is it oatmeal?
No, we make oatmeal by simply boiling it. This is not oatmeal, but it is used similarly to a cereal=grain though technically not a grain (graminae - grass).
Can I guess again, or do I need to let someone else have a try; I think I know what it is...
Of course you can guess again, this was a dead item without your input! Sorry I have been too busy with computer viruses to get back to here sooner.
CORNmeal !!! It's not a grain, but it's treated that way, often. You might use it to make mush, cornbread, etc. :-)
Corn is definitely a member of the graminae and thus a grain, albeit processed into meal. Wheat flour is also made from a grain, etc. This is something else made into flour that is not a true grain. It can also be eaten not made into flour.
Phooee.
Think 'pancake'. (Not phooee, not wheat, rye, corn, barley, millet, sorghum, teff, rice, although these all make nice pancakes too).
Potato flour?
Nope, and not sweet potato or cassava flour. BIG HINT: the name sounds like a grain even though this is not a grain. (Not acorn flour, not breadfruit flour)
How about buckwheat?
Buckwheat it is! One of the very few things Jim will not eat because it leaves a metallic taste in his mouse. He also does not eat raw radishes.
give me a few days to find something.
Don't tell me your cupboard is bare!
Oh no, far from that but you know one has to be creative with this lot. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that I'm going to post something that's really mainstream, since I don't exactly subscribe to the philosophy of veganism. I have to be super sneaky, and that, will take a few days. <evil laugh>
Campbell's chicken soup?
Why are you entering a guess? I didn't post a label. But here is mine. Serving size 3 pieces Servings per container about 9. Total Fat 9 grams Saturated Fat 6 grams Cholesterol 5 mg Sodium 55 mg Total Carbs 22g Dietary Fiber less than 1g Sugars 4g Protein 1g
Something not vegan, like you said. 5mg cholesterol. Probably not chicken soup unless it is restaurant sized (nine servings) and comes in pieces. Hmmm
High in carbs, but not fiber or sugar, so is very starchy
Funny, I really didn't notice the starch...
Almost half fat, actually. Cheese crackers? Cheese something?
not cheese. I would never admit to eating cheese. It's terribly fatty, smells awful and costs a lot of money. ;)
I seem to have rendered all the great food detectives inert. A clue: Life without this food would be very boring, and I wouldn't even dream of seeing a world without it. Some people smoked it, which was truly bizarre.
We must lead very boring lives, as vegans do not eat cholesterol. I cannot imagine smoking milk, eggs, or meat (at least in a pipe - I have eaten smoked cheese and smoked salmon).
no milk, nor eggs, or salmon. It's not cheese either. Keep a guessing.
Methiks we need another clue. <omni sees the clue bus in the distance> When I said "Smoked" I didn't mean the kind of smoking that bacon gets, and no, it's not bacon so don't ask. <the clue bus leaves in a cloud of blue exhuast>
banana skins? (with cholesterol added) I am afraid I am not good at guessing animal products, sorry. Would someone more creative please make a stab at this one?
You have to ask yourself "Would Jim go around eating banana skins?" I think not. I like what is inside the skins, and I usually throw my old, used skins away, or compost them for fertilizer. You also have to ask "Are banana skins so good that life without them be worth living?" If banana skins disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't notice, nor would I care. If the mystery food did that I'd probably call Dr. K.
Yet another clue since it is apparent I'm being a little obscure. The name of this food is sprinkled liberally throughout this conference and even this item. One of the users uses this as his name. I should add that when I am out of this particular item, I tend to get bitchy.
Dog food? Not cheese. Someone else please make a guess at this.
cloves
I won't even answer 422. I have done a lot of weird things in my life, including eating Milk-Bones, But I don't snack on dog food. Never have never will. It is not cloves. Sigh.
I was looking for a play on the word 'bitchy'. I give up.
Try the middle clue in #421.....
You might say that the mystery food is just what the doctor ordered. And if that isn't enough of a clue, then I really don't know what to tell ya.
High-cholesterol salt?
No. I give up. I have no more clues to give away, so I'll just tell you. It's Chocolate. The Ancient indians in Mexico smoked it. I believ it was the Mayas, or the Incas. The label is from Nestle Treasures with Caramel. I would definitly feel bitchy if all chocolate disappeared from the planet. I was very suprised that i didn't get it, since he uses it in his name. I'll pass it to i.
milk chocolate, I presume, not chocolate beans or cocoa powder. I have never thought of this as a necessity of life, or as something I sprinkle.
Yup. And sometimes it's need. Sometimes I just need a big hit of chocolate to set everything right again.
Serving Size: 1/2 Cup (130g) Servings per Container: 6 Calories: 150 (10 from fat) Total Fat: 1g / 2%, saturated fat: 0g / 0%, no cholesterol Sodium: 550mg / 23% Total Carb.: 29g / 10%, dietary fiber: 7g / 28%, sugar: 5g Protein: 7g Vitamin A: 0%, Vitamin C: 0%, Calcium: 6%, Iron: 10%
no cholesterol, so it's not a meat product. REALLY high in sodium, so I almost have to guess that it's canned. pretty good protein and iron, so I'll say it's some kind of beans.
Low-fat refried beans?
Some kind of beans, not low-fat refried.
Woo-hoo! Are they canned?
Yes.
Kidney beans?
baked beans?
Bush's baked beans, lilmo's up.
Ack, I'm not at home!! OK, I do have ONE food item with me, here goes:
Serving size 8 fl oz (240 ml)
Servings per container 3
Calories 70
Total Fat 0 0%
Sodium 55mg 2%
Potassium 30mg 1%
Total Carb 19g 6%
Sugars 15g
Protein 0g
Not a significant source of ... (various items)
I'm going to try to be here regularly, but if I'm gone too long, feel free
to pick someone to take over.
Sugar water with a bit of starch added.
orange juice
I think you need to be a bit more specific, keesan. :-) However, I think you are on the right track. happyboy: no fiber, no vitamins... hmm... not the OJ I know... :-)
I am not familiar with the brands of sugar water, sorry. Maybe someone else would like to guess the details?
One of the sugared, etc. brands of tea-in-a-bottle?
I just discovered that canned soda (Squirt) has starch in it, so is this canned soda?
It looks like lilmo hasn't been around for a while.....#STATIC#... ...grex calling lilmo....come in, lilmo....#STATIC#.....
Sorry, haven't been around in a while. Not tea-in-a-bottle, not canned soda. But definitely on the right track.
Some kind of coffee?
Getting colder...
<groan>
That Sobe stuff...it's an energy drink.
No, but close enuf, since I'm getting tired of not being able to guess. It was actually Powerade. Your turn, gypsi!
<raises eyebrow> Ummm...okay. =)
Serving size: 1/4 cup (36g/1.3oz) Servings per container: about 6 Calories 150 Calories from Fat 35 Total Fat: 4g Saturated Fat: 2g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 270mg Total Carbohydrate: 26g Dietary Fiber: 2g Sugars: 10g Protein: 2g Vitamin A: 0% Vitamin C: 0% Calcium: 4% Iron: 6%
Haagen Dazs?
Hm... Cholesterol content is zero and fiber is non-zero. This suggests it's not a dairy product, like ice cream. It packs a lot of carbohydrate and sugar into 1/4 cup. Maybe some highly concentrated cereal product.
Not Haagen Dazs, not highly concentrated cereal product...but that's kinda on the right track...
What is Powerade?
Coke's version of Gatorade. It comes in a handy squirt bottle with a valve in the cap (so it doesn't leak) and a hinged top over that. Hmm... no Vit A or C, so not a yellow or green veggie, nor likely a fruit, but fiber indicates that it's not likely to be meat, either. Is it some kind of nut? that seems to fit the fiber, iron, and protein.
Nope. Not a beverage, and not a nut. Hint: Yes, you can use it for a breakfast food, but it isn't a food itself.
Some kind of spread? <i is unsure about "it isn't a food itself">
Meaning I don't know anyone who would eat it. Not a spread. Think internally...as in ingredient...
Is is a shake mix? (eg, carnation instant b'fast or SlimFast)
That is so close I could scream. =) "Mix" is correct...now gimme a popular brand name for mixes. Think coffee cake and muffins.
jiffy mix?
Shake & Bake!!! :)
Bisquick. I remember doughboys for breakfast at summer camp. Freshly picked blueberries and raw dough, we never could wait for them to char on the stick.
Happyboy has it! =)
cool...i feel like the fonz!
ok...
corn syrup, dextrose, high fructose corn syrup, crackermeal,
modified wheat starch, partially hydrogenated soybean oil,
dried strawberries, natural berry flavor, dried apples, citric
acid, xanthan gum, red #40, soy lecithin, blue #2
hint: the ingredients listed are only *part* of the product
AND you need not name the *exact* subspecies of this
cheerful beast.
Nutri-Grain Fruit Twists?
that's a negatory, mama-bear.
Well, except that it's crackermeal instead of flour, I'd say it sounds like a Pop Tart.
Did the rules of the game just change from listing nutritional content to listing actual ingredients?
I don't think so, but maybe some people just don't understand the rules of the game.
I don't mind playing by different rules for a change, except that makes it impossible to list any 'food' that does not consist of multiple ingredients. For instance I could not enter a tomato, only tomato sauce or pizza.
r474 gelinas...EXACTAMUNDO! you GOT IT!
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.
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