The Ultimate Sushi Tracking Guide
Y’all love your cream cheese and sashimi and we’re here to help you track it!
The MOst Popular Sushi:
We polled our clients about which rolls were the most popular that they wanted help with tracking, and these were it!
Basic Rolls:
California Roll
Spicy Tuna/Salmon Roll
Shrimp/Tuna Tempura Roll
Veggie Rolls
Rainbow Rolls
Philadelphia Rolls
Raw Fish:
Sashimi
Nigiri
The Fully Loaded Rolls:
Tiger Rolls
Dragon Roll A.K.A. the one with every topping
“The Deep-Fried Crunchy Ones”
The ones with THE MOST sauces
Basic Rolls? we Gotchu
Whether it’s the California or Spicy Tuna Roll, just track it by the piece! There’s an entry for most basic rolls, and if you ate 10pcs, track 10pcs.
There are plenty of Cronometer entries by the piece count, and that will be close enough for guesstimating. Don’t overcomplicate it!
Do you love Raw fish?
Sashimi:
The average piece of sashimi weighs ~0.5-0.7 oz per slice, so if you had 6 slices of ahi, you could log it as ~3.6 oz (0.6 x 6 = 3.6oz), which is close enough!
Nigiri:
Like the basic rolls, there are tons of entries for piece-count nigiri. Use one of those, and it’ll get you close enough!
Now what about that dragon roll?
Are you out with friends and splitting some specialty rolls? At this point, rather than piecemeal a couple of different entries, it’s probably going to be easier to just create a custom food.
We’ve done the research here, so you don’t have to!
Create a custom food entry with the below macros for 2 rolls. Only eat 1? Log it as half a serving. Eat a total of 3 rolls, log it as 1.5 servings, and move on!
2 Specialty Rolls Macros:
36g Protein
32g Fat
110g Carb
takeaways
Don’t make it too hard on yourself! Sushi out is an experience, and one meal per week, guesstimated like this, will only sway your weekly data averages by up to 3%.*
All sushi places do their rolls slightly differently, so expecting perfection in tracking is a fool’s errand. Being okay with being close enough will help alleviate the stress of perfect tracking.
Remember you can always ask the restaurant if they have their own nutritional information!
See our blog post on guesstimating vs not tracking & how we approach this at EPN