Serving sizes for starchy foods
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1 serving = 150 Kcal
| Food | Weight | Cooking unit |
| Angu (cooked cornmeal) | 105g | 3 tablespoons |
| Banana cake | 50g | 1 piece |
| Bread, homemade | 55g | ½ unit |
| Breakfast cereal | 43g | 1 tea cup |
| Carrot cake | 30g | 1 small piece |
| Cassava (cooked) | 96g | 3 tablespoons |
| Cassava flour | 30g | 2 tablespoons |
| Cheese bun | 40g | 1 unit |
| Chocolate cake | 50g | 1 piece |
| Chocolate chip cookies | 30g | 6 units |
| Corn on the cob | 100g | 1 large ear |
| Corn starch | 40g | 2 and ½ tablespoons |
| Corn, whole kernel, canned | 142g | 1 medium-sized unit |
| Cornbread | 70g | 1 medium-sized unit |
| Cornflour | 48g | 4 tablespoons |
| Cornstarch cookies | 35g | 7 units |
| Cream crackers | 32.5g | 5 units |
| Farofa (made with cassava flour) | 37g | ½ serving spoon |
| French fries | 58g | 1 serving spoon |
| Hot dog bun | 75g | 1 and ½ units |
| Malted milk (biscuit) | 32.5g | 5 units |
| Marie biscuit | 35g | 7 units |
| Mashed potatoes | 135g | 2 serving spoons |
| Oatmeal | 36g | 2 tablespoons |
| Pamonha (corn paste wrapped with corn husks) | 100g | 1 unit |
| Pasta (cooked) | 105g | 3 and ½ tablespoons |
| Petit pain rolls | 50g | 1 unit |
| Polenta, fried | 80g | 2 pieces |
| Polenta, without sauce | 200g | 5 pieces |
| Popcorn, salted | 22.5g | 2 and ½ tea cups |
| Potato, baked, chopped | 90g | 3 tablespoons |
| Potato, cooked | 175g | 1 and ½ units |
| Potato bread | 50g | 1 unit |
| Potato, sauteed | 130g | 2 and ½ serving spoons |
| Potato, sweet, cooked | 150g | 1 and ½ serving spoons |
| Rice, white, cooked | 125g | 4 tablespoons |
| Rice, whole, cooked | 140g | 4 tablespoons |
| Rye bread | 60g | 2 slices |
| Sandwich cookies (chocolate, dulce de leche, strawberry) | 34g | 2 units |
| Sweet corn cake | 50g | 1 piece |
| Toasted and sliced petit pain rolls | 33g | 6 slices |
| Wafers (chocolate, strawberry, vanilla) | 30g | 3 units |
| White bread (loaf) | 43g | 2 slices |
| Yam (Dioscorea trifida), baked/mashed | 126g | 3 and ½ tablespoons |
| Yam, baked/mashed | 126g | 3 and ½ tablespoons |
| Yam, pureed | 135g | 3 serving spoons |
| Zwieback, high-fiber | 50g | 5 units |
| Zwieback, high-gluten | 50g | 5 units |
| Zwieback, savoury | 40g | 4 units |