So, I have been driving myself crazy trying to come up with the number of calories in a cup of flour. The first problem is dealing with the American system of measurement. A cup is not a cup is not a cup. Weights range from 115 to140 grams per cup. I am trending to ~125 grams per cup, for flour. And then there are the calories per cup of flour. Again, they are flying all over the map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I decided to try the 100 gram approach. How many calories are there per 100 grams? Things seem to stabilize a bit. Values aren\u2019t fluctuating quite as much. Your strong flours seem to be in the 360-365 calorie range, the cake flours in the 300-340 calorie range. But, there still is some variety, even amongst the same type of flours, so I went looking for an authoritative source and found \u2013 The USDA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/fdc.nal.usda.gov\/fdc-app.html#\/?query=flour<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here they have a variety of flour types, all the nutrition information you want, and they serve it up in 100 gram portions. So I go and take a look at Flour, bread, white, enriched, unbleached<\/a> (I am using King Arthur bread flour at the moment) and see lots and lots of nutrient information. They\u2019ve got proximates, minerals, even vitamins; they even have TWO values of calories! I didn\u2019t know about the two values of calories; I always thought a calorie was a calorie, except when it was a fiber. They list calories as energy, measured by the Atwater General Factors and the Atwater Specific Factors. These numbers are not the same. I will leave it to the gentle reader to chase the Atwater Factors down the \u201cGoogle\u201d or \u201cDuck Duck Go\u201d rabbit hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I shall move forward using the Atwater General Factor of 366 Calories for 100 grams of bread flour. I am still debating as to whether a cup of flour is 125 grams or 130 grams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, I have been driving myself crazy trying to come up with the number of calories in a cup of flour. The first problem is dealing with the American system of measurement. A cup is not a cup is not a cup. Weights range from 115 to140 grams per cup. I am trending to ~125 … Continue reading Bread Works<\/span>