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[arethinn]

I'm confused. This "track food and nutrition" site I'm using has six entries for "sushi" in its database of known foods:

Sushi, NFS (I don't know what "NFS" stands for; it appears on a number of foods, and I think it must mean "no ____ stated", but I'm not sure quite what)
Sushi, no vegetables, no fish
Sushi, with vegetables, no fish
Sushi, with vegetables and fish
Sushi, with vegetables, rolled in seaweed
Sushi, with egg, no vegetables, no fish, rolled in seaweed

Sooo... when you take away egg, vegetables and fish, and it's not specified to have been wrapped in seaweed, aren't you down to just rice? What the heck is the point of that?

Comments

[graphxgrrl.livejournal.com]

There is tamago - which is egg. Depending on how they define roe, it's not technically fish. There's also squid, clams, eel, which are technically not fish. You can also make rolls with chicken and various other things. I've seen some with duck as well.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

You might want to reread my updated version of the post; egg is mentioned in one of them. I think "fish" is probably standing in for any kind of seafood here, as it's based off the USDA database (I can tell by the form of the food names). *shrug* I dunno!

[soundwave106.livejournal.com]

That sounds like Fitday.com's food nutrition chart, which is admittedly, um, very weird in some of its descriptions. I think it's hard to trust anything but the basics on that place, but at least the basics are okay I guess.

I noticed one piece of no vegetables no fish sushi is only 46 calories. That's a lot of calories for essentially nothing. :P

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

I can tell by the way the names are that it is based off the USDA's database (http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
(http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/)), but yeah, I agree it's kind of weird in some places.

I'm guessing that must be the calories in just the rice? I really don't know.

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

there are at least two restaurants around here that have beef and/or pork "sushi" on the menu...maybe the people who designed the list are just super ware of cooking fusion trends?

[nsingman.livejournal.com]

If memory serves, the term "sushi" refers to that vinegared rice itself. It was used as a way to preserve fish, and I think the rice was originally discarded when the fish was eaten. As a low carb dieter, I eat sashimi, which is just the raw fish. And oh, how I love it! :-)