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Originally Posted by not2late  Volume measures (fluid ounces) and weight measures (dry ounces) only equal each other for water, butter and another thing I can never remember (but it's not veggies!)
Therefore, if you measure 1 cup or 8 fluid ounces of butter, it will weigh 8 ounces, but if you measure 1 cup or 8 fluid ounces of flour it weighs 5 ounces.
If you look at fitday or the USDA nutrient database, you'll see that 1 cup of broccoli, raw weighs 88 grams. 88 gram is equal to 3.10 ounces. So 2 cups of broccoli is 167 grams or 6.2 ounces. Which means the 8 ounces of broccoli you are weighing is in reality about 2 1/4 to 2 1/3 cups. In other words, if 1 cup of broccoli doesn't weigh 8 ounces.
Look what happens if you try to weigh 8 ounces of raw spinach. the USDA says that 1 cup of spinach weighs 30 grams, which is about 1 ounce. That means if you'll have to eat 8 cups of raw spinach to get the 8 ounces of it----that's way above the 3 cup Induction limit.
When DANDR 2002 ed. first made its way across the Atlantic to the UK, the editors didn't take the fluid ounce and dry ounce difference into account. So some UKers were eating huge amounts of veggies because they were weighing 8 ounces instead of measuring 8 fluid ounces or roughly 240 ml. |
I'm lost with this post. Especially the spinach one. Is there somewhere that says we "have" to eat 8 oz of spinach. I just want a more accurate reading of what I want to eat. Period. I don't want to mound up something that I shouldn't be having. But it is impossible to get "1cup" the same each time you measure broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, or spinach or whatever. Only liquids or powder products would be accurate for cups measurements to me.
My three oz of lettuce tonight was 2.4 carbs. That is about equal to the way I usually figure it at outer or inner leaves.