Raw vs Cooked weight?

Ice_Arrows
Ice_Arrows Posts: 46 Member
edited November 12 in Food and Nutrition
So I always weigh my meats before they're cooked but I'm roasting a chicken for supper tomorrow and was wondering how to go about weighing the portions. If the meat is weighed after cooking will it change anything? Like is 4oz of raw chicken the same in nutritional values as 4oz cooked? Would anything change?

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited February 2015
    nutrients won't substantially change...but in the cooking process you're going to lose water, etc so if you way out 4 oz cooked chicken but logging it as raw, it will be off in that in reality it was more to begin with.

    There are options in the database for cooked weights...use those. Cooking doesn't substantially change nutrient content.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    Look up the nutritrional info for roasted chicken and weigh your portions. I weigh both raw and cooked depending on preference. Hasn't made me not see results.
  • Ice_Arrows
    Ice_Arrows Posts: 46 Member
    Sounds good, will log under the cooked weights. Thanks for the info :)
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