I was weighing my ice cream to count calories, then I was almost halfway through the container and only saw 150ml (a serving is 188) on the scale. I was confused so I weighed a full pint to see and it’s nothing near what the package says. I panicked and thought my scale was off and I’d been over eating for weeks, however I weighed some more things in my house and they were all correct so I know it’s not my scale. Why is this weighing almost half the amount it should be?
by burninglips69
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mL is for volume, not weight. Your food scale is calibrated for water mL and more liquidy substances. Ice cream weighs a different amount and isn’t a liquid, so weighing it on the mL setting isn’t accurate.
You can’t measure mass with volume. The ml function is the mass equivalent of the volume of water.
You’re confusing volume measurements and weight measurements. The ice cream is 473ml, which is not equal to 473g, because the density of ice cream is <1g/ml. Ice cream (especially halo top) contains a lot of air. And even regular full fat ice cream has a density of <1g/ml.
Fucking hell, has Mensa been in contact yet?
personally i always weigh in grams unless im tracking water intake! mL are usually only configurated to track the volume of water- not icecream and other foods.