The modern Thanksgiving dinner: Bigger, lighter - look up calories for restaurant dishes

Good news for Thanksgiving: some staple foods on the Turkey Day table have less calories than they did 50 years ago.
The bad news may not matter because most Americans eat too much anyway.
While Americans are notorious for adding calories and portions compared to a generation or so ago, the slight changes in the American diet seem to buffer some people's Thanksgiving dinner ---but not all --of our bigger-
Better mentality
Want to know exactly what's going on with American official intuition
At the dinner, the Associated Press asked Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab to analyze 1950 of the recipes and compare them with contemporary versions.
Before.
Laboratory director Brian Wansink's Thanksgiving recipe found that the number of calories in many classic recipes has surged nearly 40% over the past 70 years.
But the staple food of Thanksgiving did not follow this trend.
When comparing 1956 better home and garden recipes to the 2006 edition of "better new recipes for home and garden, the number of calories in five of the eight recipes tested actually dropped "in part because of the use of lower-
Heat composition, such as low
It's not cream but fat milk.
Surprisingly, some services have also declined in size for decades. Per-
The amount of calories consumed with almonds, fillings, mashed potatoes, sugar-stained sweet potatoes and green beans from pumpkin pie decreased by an average of 102 calories.
The heat in the roll increased by 26 calories, and the heat in the corn and carrot basically did not change.
This makes the total number of calories for these eight foods plus a turkey drumstick contemporary Thanksgiving dinner 2,057 calories.
According to Laura Smith, a researcher at Cornell University, 1956 of the data is 2,539.
But these numbers are accurate only when you eat the right portion.
The last time you carefully measured 6 ounces of sugar-stained sweet potatoes, or called them the day after only one roll, especially on Thanksgiving Day.
Wansink's research has repeatedly shown that Americans are not good at controlling parts today.
"The Butter in the seasoning may be a little less, or the marshmallow on the sweet potato may be a little less," he said . ".
"But if you end up messing with them, you end up getting a lot more service than your grandfather himself gets.
"Meals served at home follow the same trend as restaurants and packaged foods ---
More, More.
Even Thanksgiving plates have grown since a generation ago (with more than a third increase, according to Wansink's study ).
From today's feelings, the old China seems to be more suitable for snacks than the Turkish Festival.
Wansink's research shows that there is a connection between the larger plate and the larger part.
Simply put, a small piece of mashed potatoes at 1 feet-wide plate.
Wine consumption is also vibrant.
Glasses are getting bigger and bigger today.
Wansink added that even if the recipes are the same size, families today are smaller.
That means more for everyone.
Even Turkey is bigger. Today's big-
According to federal data, the breasted bird weighs an average of 10 pounds compared to 1950.
The recipes for the '50s actually include 5-pound birds.
I wish you a little today.
Professor of nutrition at Boston University and spokeswoman for the American diet Association Joan sarger Black believes that tradition
The combined nature of the Thanksgiving meal may play a role in reducing the calorie of the recipe.
"These are grandma's recipes," she said, adding that the recipe is unlikely to change over time.
Nancy Hopkins, deputy editor-in-chief of food and entertainment for Better Homes and Gardens, was not surprised by Wansink's findings.
Her company has responded to an increasing number of consumers who are demanding healthier choices, including Thanksgiving, she said.
To see the real calorie spike, all you have to do is compare today's Thanksgiving Day to 1621 of the holiday season.
Menu for settlers and their Wampanoag guests--
Pilgrims and Indians know it now. -
Lost history.
But, according to Catherine Wall, the limited clues available point to the table loaded with venison and wild birds, the cullinnari people on the colonial Food Street at the Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts
Other dishes may include lobsters, light dishes, cooked vegetables and pumpkins.
But forget the fancy side.
Pilgrims may not have potatoes in 1621, and if they had butter and sugar, it would have appeared on Mayflower the year before.
No dough so no pie.
They may have had cranberry, but not sweet sauce.
The birds may have been filled with only four servings of onions and parsley, Wall said.
One of the settlers thanked him with Turkish chicken legs, lobster, boiled spinach and pumpkin stew with clear water ---
Sorry, no beer or wine yet. -
About 550 calories.
For the settlers who came over on Mayflower, there was nothing fancy, greasy.
He joked that they would sink the ship.