So . . . why does one tablespoon of Olive oil have almost 200 calories - but apparently olive oil cooking spray has none

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: acheron

Originally posted by: Homerboy
OP lost me at "air popped popcorn". I like to eat things that taste good.

wait, so the OP makes "air popped popcorn", and then sprays oil on it anyway? just make the popcorn in oil in the first place, the way God meant for us to make popcorn.

agreed. My wife has been making olive oil popcorn lately. She swears by it. But give me good ole vegetable oil, too much butter and way too much popcorn salt.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: Chryso

Originally posted by: episodic
I don't get it. . .



Although, I'm grateful to have something to spray on my airpopped popcorn that doesn't add calories. ..

It adds calories. They just claim that one serving has no calories because they define a serving as an amount so small that the government lets them round down the calories to zero.

It's the same with trans fats. Ever since the FDA required foods to list "trans fat" as an explicit entry on nutrition labels, many foods have been claiming "0g trans fats" because the amount contained in one serving is less than 0.5g, which the FDA permits to be rounded down to 0.

I don't think food producers are allowed to remove it from the ingredient list, however. If you see "partially hydrogenated ...." in the ingredient list, then the food contains trans fat, even if it says "0g trans fat" on the label.

 

[nageov3t]

every time I see products advertising "zomg 0 grams trans fat!!!" I think it's code for "high in other fats/calories/sugars/everything else bad for you"

 

[Adam8281]

FWIW, the calories in 1TB of olive oil are 120, not 200

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: Special K
I don't think food producers are allowed to remove it from the ingredient list, however. If you see "partially hydrogenated ...." in the ingredient list, then the food contains trans fat, even if it says "0g trans fat" on the label.

This is correct.

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: Adam8281
FWIW, the calories in 1TB of olive oil are 120, not 200

Woah! A terabyte of olive oil!?

 

[Adam8281]

Originally posted by: kalrith

Originally posted by: Adam8281
FWIW, the calories in 1TB of olive oil are 120, not 200

Woah! A terabyte of olive oil!?

heh

 

[mortong]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
OP lost me at "air popped popcorn". I like to eat things that taste good.

Ingredients
1/4 cup unpopped popcorn
1 tbsp trans-fat free butter substitute (I use the olive oil based stuff because it tastes olive oily)
Curry Powder to taste

Directions
Melt the curry powder into the butter
Air-pop the popcorn
Mix & serve with a little salt

The taste is 10x better than microwave popcorn, and way lower in calories.

 

[marvdmartian]

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Aren't most of those sprays actually canola oil?

Almost any mass produced crap that claims olive oil includes just enough of it to put it on the label and ingredient list. There isn't enough to taste it unless they boost the flavor with concentrates.

Thus why I use the 100% extra virgin olive oil at Walmart.
Pic of can
and pic of label.

And yes, the reason why a quick spray is zero calories is because it's such a miniscule amount of oil.