Eyes opened, weigh your food!

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  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
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    TimothyFish wrote: »
    Need2Exerc1se wrote: »
    I've recently started trying to get a high amount of fiber, so I started weighing certain foods. Most have weighed less than the package or USDA database says for the volume. I thought perhaps my scale was off, because I see these types of posts on here so often, so I checked it on another and got the same result.

    Since, I've started weighing a lot more stuff. The only thing that has been higher than I thought was meat. 3 oz of meat is less than I thought. Except for fish. Fish was pretty spot on.

    Food loses weight during shipping, due to evaporation.

    Depends on the food, the packaging, and the environment.

    High water content foods are more likely to lose water (and weight), low water content and hydrophilic foods are more likely to gain water (and weight). Foods that tend to change a great deal with environmental exposure are usually packaged to minimize that exposure.

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