Hi,
I was wondering how significantly frying veg in low fat oils such as fry light reduces their calorie content. For example 100g of raw mushrooms = 15calories while 100g fried= 157. Does anyone know roughly how much it would vary using fry light, or a rough formula for calculating this as most of the calorie tables online dont seem to differentiate between different types of oil.
Many thanks

I may be confused but, Fry Light is a spray right? The thing you have to watch about the sprays is that they're really not "low fat" - you can't have low fat oil - it's a physical impossibility. The reason they're low fat/low cal is that they're portion controlled by the spray mechanism.

A spray of oil is something like 1/100th of a tbsp - so if a tbsp is 120 calories and 14g of fat, then a spray is 1.2 calories and .14g of fat. That's why the serving size on the spray oils is something like 4 sprays. It's a ridiculously low amount to fool you into thinking you're eating "low calorie" or "low fat" oil. You're not.

That's why the calorie tables online don't differentiate - there *isn't* a difference. You're just eating oil in really small portions.

There is no way you can fry food in 4 sprays of oil. And if you use 1/2 the bottle - all you're doing is bypassing the mechanism to force you to eat fractional serving sizes. It's no different from using olive oil out of a jar.

I count how many squirts of frylight go into the pan. Since they are one calories per spray you know how many calories you have there.

I count how many grams of raw mushrooms I put into the pan and log that.

Naturally if say 2 of you eat the food and have equally sized portions on serving you divide the total calculated by 2.

As Kara says - unscrewing the top makes it a totally different situation.

I use frylight whenever I fry (and to stop meat from sticking when I roast).

Ahhhh ... I wasn't thinking in terms of pan frying or sauteeing, but more like deep fried. My mistake.

Yeah, you just count the sprays and add it to the calorie count of your food, if you're pan frying stuff.