How do I know what a serving of whole grains is. Example oatmeal
Because it’s tricky to think of some whole grains in terms of cups, like a slice of bread, we opted to use typical serving sizes instead. So a single slice of bread might be considered one serving. Whereas, a serving size for oatmeal, is usually labled on the packaging it came in or could be searched online. We realize this isn’t a perfect solution in all cases, but generally works.
If you have any suggestions we are open to your ideas!
Somewhere on the app you could have examples and amounts to equal a serving. I have no idea nor did I know one piece of bread would be a serving. What about brown rice? Is that a half cup or 1 cup per serving?
That’s a great suggestions.
Here is an example of what you are talking about:
We will add this idea to our roadmap of feature improvements
So ocording to this guide examples, 3/4 cup of brown rices is one serving
That looks great! It is hard to see the 3/4 serving though.
I think you are missing a plant based milk category. I found another problem as well. I added too many of a category and i was not able to take it off. Can you help me with that?
So by your example of 1 piece of toast equals 1 serving, would one whole grain pancake. Be a serving?
I just found the example image above for illustration purposes, but i agree the 3/4 cup is hard to see…Needs a better deign.
Plant based milk is usually made from some type of nut, like almonds or is made from soybeans which is a legume….so depending what type you are using you could log it to one of those categories….however your suggestions is interesting, so would like to study that possibility. It may be interesting if you could define your own categories instead of us hardwiring them. We have had requests to add some of the myplate categories, because everyone eats a bit differently might be good to add some flexibility.
I looked up pancakes on Google and it suggested a typical serving might be 2 medium size pancakes would be a serving. There doesn’t seem to be any exact science to this, its more about estimating moderate portion sizes.