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Aug 31st '15, 12:46 PM
kitty1975
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Home air popped pop corn
I keep getting very conflicting syn values for aired popped popcorn- not the prepackaged store ones but using corn kernals and a air popcorn maker. Any insight would be welcomed. Thanks in advance.
Aug 31st '15, 12:48 PM
sarahc4536
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Aug 31st '15, 21:20 PM
just_lyndsey_15
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Location: Birmingham
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I'm still trying to understand why it's so high in syns?
Aug 31st '15, 21:40 PM
kitty1975
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I know I can totally understand the prepackaged but not the home made. I am not going to make weigh in this week but will check with my consultant!
Aug 31st '15, 22:13 PM
sarahc4536
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Couldn't explain why it's so high. I would assume because it has no positive nutritional value as in it's not like it's one of your five a day, or protein rich, not enough fibre, etc.
Kitty let us know what your consultant says
Sep 1st '15, 02:03 AM
matt9210
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I think this was asked on here not long ago. And the answer was that for 25g of air-popped popcorn, you get more pieces compared to 25g of toffee popcorn, because the toffee makes it heavier.
So if you were to syn it on a "per piece" basis, I'd guess there'd be a bigger difference in syns between 20 air-popped pieces and 20 toffee pieces than there is between 25g of each.
