Anyone know fried fish carbs?

[Songwriter]

My book doesn't have it and I can't find it online. One of my loves is fried fish, especially freshwater bass or crappie but also, catfish. Commercial places sell catfish. All of these are battered with cornmeal. But I wonder how many gms carbs one piece of fish has? Any idea? Of course, it depends on how big the piece of fish is.

[cmcole]

Have you checked fitday or nutritiondata?

[LisaS]

the only way to know for sure would be to measure the coating before and after dipping the fish to know for sure how much stuck. The type of coating matters too - was it a batter or just cornmeal, etc.
If you can estimate if Tbsp or two of cornmeal would do it- I'd go with that.

[Songwriter]

My book has many types of cornmeal and I don't know which is the one you use on fish... but... it's 90 to 100 gm carbs per cup. So, say, 6 gm carbs per TBSP. Hmmm, I have no clue how many T cornmeal per piece of fish. If it's 1T, I could eat five pieces and be at 30 gm carb. That would be okay, eating no carbs remainder of day.

Of course, then you have the problems of eating fried food. Peanut oil, this is often used to fry fish with.

I haven't eaten fried fish in months but I do love it.

[LisaS]

as you know part of what the Eades say in PP/PPLP is that we are aiming for 7-10 per meal with a 40/day max -- since we are trying to control insulin we really don't want to see all the carbs in a single meal.

so personally I would count 30g in a meal as a rare indulgence

[Songwriter]

Wow, my initial post was over a year ago. Still wondering about this. If anyone new sees this, reply! Regarding if you think the corn meal used to coat fried fish makes it a carb problem. I don't mean something heavily battered. You just roll it in cornmeal.

[maxlharris]

Hiya Bill,

From Fitday:
If it's battered, and you don't know anything else about it:
9g carb per piece, with .3 g of fiber.
A piece being defined as: 1 fillet (6-1/4" x 3-1/2" x 3/8")
This is based on a white flour batter.

For breaded, same serving, you're looking at
11.2 g carb, with ~.4g of fiber.
This is a white flour breading.

From RecipeZaar: http://www.recipezaar.com/249313
3lbs of catfish pieces yields 10-12 servings
And uses:
1.5 cups of cornmeal (120g net/cup, so 180 total) from nutrtiondata.com (http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c21Tp.html)
Plus
1 cup of flour (92g net/cup) from nutritiondata.com (http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c21Uf.html)

So, ~270 for 3 lbs of catfish filets or nuggets, with 10-12 servings. A healthy serve is 27g, a "health conscious" serve is 22.5.

In my opinion (matching LisaS's), this is a splurge item, not something to work in regularly.

I would work this into my value cheat framework. If going over on a meal by 20g is going to give you symptoms or relapse, you have to calculate the value of the event (eating the fish, the social setting, the occasion) against the damage/repercussions. I can't do your math. For me, fried catfish is out. Fried whitefish is a little more workable, but maybe a little less desireable (I dont do this stuff, either way, so I cannot judge).

[laughingW]

Maybe you could "guesstimate" by finding a prepared food that is like what you're looking for, and searching for the manufacturer's nutrition label.

Fast food joints and the major frozen meal companies usually have this.

I love breaded fried fish too and sometimes have it at home. But that's with a very thin coating.

[LisaS]

at home it is easy - weigh out the coating - coat the piece - weigh what is left and do the math.