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How to figure out portion size?

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Visualizing your portion size Making healthful food choices and understanding portion sizes are key factors in healthy eating. Especially, if you are planning to lose weight, determining portion size plays a major role. What exactly is a portion? A portion is one serving of a type of food. Do you know what it looks like a cup of peas? a tablespoon of peanut butter? or 1 oz of cooked meat? Hints for visualizing your portion size 1/4 cup is about the size of a ping pong or a golf ball. 1 cup is about the size of a tennis or baseball. A 1-inch diameter sauce cup will hold 1 oz . A ‘ pint ’ deli container holds 16 oz or about 2 cups . How to visualize meat portion sizes 3 oz meat portion is similar in size to a deck of cards 1 oz of cooked meat is similar in size to 3 dice. 1-inch meatball is about 1 oz . 4 oz of raw, lean meat is about 3 oz after cooking. 3 oz of grilled fish is the size of a checkbook. How to visualize fruit and vegetable portion sizes For cut fruits and veget

Grams in a troy ounce?

Here, you are gonna learn the difference between an ounce, a troy ounce, and how many grams are in a troy ounce. Now, if you're already a heavy buyer of precious metals like gold and silver you probably already know what a troy ounce is, but if you're just getting into precious metals or if you're just curious about the difference between an ounce and a troy ounce, we're gonna explain it to you in this article.  What is the difference between a troy ounce and an ounce? Let's talk about ounces and troy ounces. So, ounces are what we use to measure everyday things like fruit and vegetables. If you go to the grocery store, fruits and veggies would be measured in regular ounces. Or, let's say you have a child, then your child weighs 7 pounds 2 ounces, those are regular ounces and those are actually called avoirdupois ounces.  It's a French word and a lot of people mispronounce it.  We know that there are, 16 ounces in 1 pound .  1 lb = 16 oz "oz" is th

How many oz are in a fl oz?

What is the difference between a Fluid Ounce and a Weight Ounce? The solid ounce is also known as a dry ounce and its abbreviation is dry oz and the fluid ounce is abbreviated as fl oz. Do not get confused with dry ounces and fluid ounces. Dry ounces measure weight and fluid ounces measure volume. Here, we're gonna learn " the difference between a weight ounce and a fluid ounce ". In mathematics, we actually call the weight ounce a dry ounce . As per the abbreviation let's use, dry ounce = oz and fluid ounce = fl oz dry oz -> 1 oz = 1/16 lb   (Here, when we're dealing with dry ounces we just say "ounce") fl oz -> 1 fl oz = 1/16 pint When dealing with volume measurements using fluid ounces we shall know the following conversions. 8 fl oz = 1 cup 1 pint = 2 cups 1 quart = 2 pints 1 gallon = 4 quarts Now, as far as weight goes if we're converting one ounce to the metric system , 1 oz = 28.3495 g and, 1 fl oz = 29.573 ml Now, t