Oatmeal question

Mersie1
Mersie1 Posts: 329 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
hi all! Why when I put in 1/2 c dry mccanns oats is ur sometimes 300 cal sometimes 150?

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited October 2015
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  • JenMc14
    JenMc14 Posts: 2,389 Member
    User error? Someone put the info in wrong or used a different version? There's often way more than one entry for an item.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    It should be about 150 calories. Check that you are always picking the same entry. Some are user entered and may be incomplete.

    Calories in 1/2 cup dry oatmeal
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,860 Member
    edited October 2015
    Oatmeal (including the McCann's steel cut I sometimes eat) is normally about 150 calories for .25 cup dry (or something like 44 g -- this is the normal listed serving size). Maybe .5 cup is a cooked amount when it's listed as 150 (although I've never measured my cooked oatmeal and use the grams), and .5 cup for 300 is the dry weight.

    Or some entries are just wrong, which is common here.
  • GreenValli
    GreenValli Posts: 1,054 Member
    Mersie,

    Good for you for checking.

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  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Some people add milk to the calorie total
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