My wife brought home a fruitcake a couple of days ago. I’m the only one of our family who likes fruitcake, but since I’m trying to lose a few pounds, I was a bit worried. Would eating the fruitcake stall my weight loss? Not necessarily.<\/p>\n
The fruitcake she bought is by Weston Bakeries, out of Toronto. It’s topped with pecans but not iced. Per 83g, it carries 280 calories.<\/p>\n
By way of comparison I looked at a bagel with margarine. The bagel is 190 calories (for 75g). Next, a teaspoon of margarine we buy carries 35 calories and has mass 4.5g. I can easily imagine putting a teaspoon of margarine on each half of a freshly toasted bagel. That brings the toasted bagel, with the margarine, to 260 calories, and 84g.<\/p>\n
So, gram for gram, the fruitcake is about 20\/260, or 8%, more calorie dense than a toasted bagel with margarine.<\/p>\n
The reason the fruitcake is (to my mind, anyway) surprisingly low in calories is that it’s less than 10 percent fat.<\/p>\n
I’ll eat the fruitcake, little by little:)<\/p>\n
Source:<\/p>\n
www.traditionaloven.com<\/a><\/p>\n