Food Diary - meat?
mommy80mfp
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Hi, if i search for meat such as sirloin steak is it the weight uncooked or cooked that I go by?
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uh.... you eat it cooked, right? So therefore I would use the cooked ounces/nutrients.0
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Uncooked.0
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Uncooked0
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I weigh it raw and choose an entry that says "raw". This way, if I freeze it, I can still weigh it frozen (fresh raw and frozen raw weigh the same if the container was well sealed). However, once it thaws, it loses water and loses weight (cells bursting) in comparison to the fresh raw. I don't like weighing things cooked because the weight can vary too much. For example, if you cook a steak to medium rare vs. well done, the medium rare will weigh more (still has lots of water internally). Meanwhile they're still the same number of calories. The entries on MFP don't seem to differentiate between doneness and even if they did you still couldn't trust if your definition or MFP's definition were the same.0
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Thank you everyone x0
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It depends on whether you weighed it cooked or uncooked. Ideally, weigh it uncooked, as it's not affected by how done you like it.0
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So if an uncooked steak was 8 ounces with 200 calories in it, and after I cook it only weighs 6 ounces, does it still have those 200 calories and same nutritional values?0
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So if an uncooked steak was 8 ounces with 200 calories in it, and after I cook it only weighs 6 ounces, does it still have those 200 calories and same nutritional values?
Um, is that a serious question? Yes. It still has the same number of calories. It's like wilting spinach or cooking mushrooms. They'll shrink in size after cooking, because of moisture content, but calories will still stay the same.0 -
what about bacon cook on a grill it loses it's fat content does it still have the same as raw0
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Long answer - always log raw if possible. If not, log cooked but use a 'cooked' entry (which is tough for steak as you don't know what 'cooked' means really... rare, medium?).0
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