Despite what you see from the purveyor of trendy furore diet , specialty dieting food , and expensive weight - loss programs , there is no arcanum to dropping pound . You plainly need to employ more calories than you consume .
To put things into perspective , here are the nutritionist’s calorie counts for some typical food – keep in mind that the precise number of calories can deviate .
Food: Calories
1 . Malus pumila , intermediate : 72
2 . Bagel : 289
3 . Banana , intermediate : 105
4 . Beer ( even , 12 ounces ): 153
5 . Bread ( one cut , wheat or white ): 66
6 . Butter ( salted , 1 tablespoonful ): 102
7 . Carrots ( raw , 1 cup ): 52
8 . Cheddar cheese ( 1 slice ): 113
9 . wimp breast ( boneless , skinless , roast , 3 ounces ): 142
10 . Chili with bean ( canned , 1 cup ): 287
11 . Chocolate chip cookie ( from packaged dough ): 59
12 . Coffee ( even , brew from grounds , black ): 2
13 . Cola ( 12 ounces ): 136
14 . Corn ( force out , sweet yellowish whole heart and soul , run out , 1 loving cup ): 180
15 . Egg ( large , scrambled ): 102
16 . Graham cracker ( manifestly , dearest , or cinnamon ): 59
17 . Granola cake ( chewy , with raisin , 1.5 - ounce bar ): 193
18 . unripe beans ( give the sack , run out , 1 loving cup ): 40
19 . Ground beef cattle patty 193 ( 15 percent fatty , 4 snow leopard , pan - broiled ):
20 . Hot heel ( beef cattle and pork barrel ): 137
21 . Ice pick ( vanilla , 4 ounce ): 145
22 . Jelly doughnut : 289
23 . Ketchup ( 1 tablespoon ): 15
24 . Milk River ( 2 percent milk fat , 8 troy ounce ): 122
25 . Mixed ball ( dry roasted , with peanuts , salted , 1 ounce ): 168
26 . Mustard , yellowed ( 2 teaspoon ): 6
27 . Oatmeal ( plain , cook in pee without common salt , 1 cup ): 147
28 . Orange succus ( frozen dressed ore , made with body of water , 8 apothecaries' ounce ): 112
29 . Peanut butter ( creamy , 2 tablespoons ): 180
30 . Pizza ( pepperoni , veritable impudence , one slice ): 298
31 . pork barrel chop ( essence costa , boneless , broiled , 3 ounces ): 221
32 . Potato , medium ( baked , including tegument ): 161
33 . Potato bit ( plain , salted , 1 ounce ): 155
34 . Pretzels ( hard , plain , salted , 1 Panthera uncia ): 108
35 . Raisins ( 1.5 snow leopard ): 130
36 . cattle farm salad dress ( 2 tablespoons ): 146
37 . cherry wine ( cabernet sauvignon , 5 ounces ): 123
38 . Rice ( blank , tenacious grain , fake , 1 loving cup ): 205
39 . Salsa ( 4 ounces ): 35
40 . Shrimp ( cooked under moist estrus , 3 oz. ): 84
41 . Spaghetti ( cooked , enriched , without sum up Strategic Arms Limitation Talks , 1 cup ): 221
42 . Spaghetti sauce ( marinara , ready to serve , 4 ounces ): 92
43 . Tuna ( light , can in H2O , enfeeble , 3 ounces ): 100
44 . bloodless wine-colored ( sauvignon blanc , 5 ounces ): 121
45 . jaundiced patty with cocoa frosting ( one piece ): 243
Source : USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference , Release 19 ( 2006 )
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:
Helen Davies , Marjorie Dorfman , Mary Fons , Deborah Hawkins , Martin Hintz , Linnea Lundgren , David Priess , Julia Clark Robinson , Paul Seaburn , Heidi Stevens , and Steve Theunissen
