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I don't really know the best way of phrasing his question so I'm just going to fire off the information and see what you guys think. I'm trying to find some way of working out the carbs in the foods I am eating. For example, if I were to eat something weighing in at 275g and the packaging states that, for 100g of this food consumed, there are 17g of carbs, I Am trying to find a quick and easy way of working out the exact number of carbs I've eaten. Up until now, I would just divide that 100g value by 17g of carbs to arrive at the number of carbs realative to 1g of the produce eaten. Then I would multiply this by however many grams of the food I'd eaten and I would get the exact figure of carbs. However, doing this for a whole day's worth of eating is pretty time consuming and frankly quite boring. Does anyone know of any online calculator or iPhone app whereby you can just throw in the values per 100g (or whatever quantity the nutritional values are given by), state how many carbs there are and how much weight of the food you've eaten and it will just calculate the answer? If I knew how to program software, I'd just make myself an app where I can enter in the names and values of everything I eat down to it's 1g weight value and then I could just build up a database of foods that I eat, pick them on a list, say much of them I've eaten and it would give me all the values, along with a running tally, like ok some other dietary apps.

Anyone able to help or have a clue what I am getting at here? Help would be much appreciated!

Hi Taylor,
listing values in 100g of food is a standard measurement that foods seem/have to give aswell as sometimes a value for a serving like on bread packaging where they give values by both 100g and by the slice which is easy to work out.
what i usually do is X the carb' value (17g) by the multiples or part there of 100g,
ie, 150g = 17g x 1.5 = 25.5
250g = 17g x 2.5 = 42.5
25g = 17g x 0.25 = 4.25
To be honest most foods that come labeled like this get eaten all in one go! with me lol. And therefore are easier to workout. A calculator always comes in handy to take some of the erk out of the work of converting the values. It's useful to note that ;
1g of carb's = 4 calories
1g of prot' = 4 calories
1g of fat = 9 calories

good luck, Graham