How do I count calories on rice?

yaminachen

Heey! So the package says 490 calories per 130 grams of uncooked 12 multi grains rice by greenmax. Then, I cooked the rice and serve myself 190 grams... I try to log that in but it says that I ate MORE THAN 600 CALORIES! Am I doing something wrong? Could someone please explain this to me and what should I do?!

jemhh

Use the recipe builder. Weigh the rice and measure the water (and butter if you use it or any other additions) that you put in. Cook the rice. Weigh the entire batch of rice in grams. Set the number of servings that the recipe serves to the number of grams the whole thing weighs. Then weigh out, in grams, your portion and log it. If your portion is 150 grams, you log 150 servings.

sullus

Either find an entry for cooked rice and log that or find out how much dry rice yields 190g of cooked rice.

Cooked rice weighs approximately 4x the same volume of uncooked rice (varies a little based on the variety of rice cooked) .. so ..

If you cooked 130g (490 calories worth) of dry rice, that will turn into about 520g of cooked rice. 520g of cooked rice (if it was cooked in water) therefore has 490 calories.

Since you ate 190g cooked rice, you can figure calories by: total cal of cooked rice * (your cooked serving size / total size of cooked rice)

Or in your case: 490cal * (190g / 520g) = 179 cal

Or just use an entry for cooked rice.

jacklifts

actually, i've noticed cooked rice weighs 2x dry rice, coming from my rice cooker. i think it all varies on the type of rice, how dry/mushy it comes out, etc.

OP, if you're cooking for yourself, just weigh it out dry then cook it.
If you're cooking multiple meals or for multiple people, weigh it out dry, then weigh it out cooked, and you'll be able to figure the servings or follow what jemhh suggested.

sullus

MMMM ... my numbers (the 4x number) could be off .. I started digging around and I've seen numbers from 2x to 4x .. so jemhh and jacklifts methods will be better than mine because they make fewer assumptions.

callsitlikeiseeit

i use a cooked entry and weigh by grams. BUT i dont typically eat a lot of rice or pasta so it being slightly off and not being perfect isnt a big deal to me.

CyberTone

sullus wrote: »

MMMM ... my numbers (the 4x number) could be off .. I started digging around and I've seen numbers from 2x to 4x .. so jemhh and jacklifts methods will be better than mine because they make fewer assumptions.

I weigh rice raw (100g) plus water (400g) and then cook. After boiling for 25 minutes, I let it stand and absorb all remaining water, so the cooked is rather mushy but still separable. The average weight cooked for my method is 475g, so my method provides a 4.75 times weight gain, which is probably at the maximum. I usually divide that into 2 servings.

cwolfman13

yaminachen wrote: »

Heey! So the package says 490 calories per 130 grams of uncooked 12 multi grains rice by greenmax. Then, I cooked the rice and serve myself 190 grams... I try to log that in but it says that I ate MORE THAN 600 CALORIES! Am I doing something wrong? Could someone please explain this to me and what should I do?!

Yes...you've cooked it and are still using dry servings to try to calculate your calories. You would want to find an entry for cooked rice

brb_2013

Weigh it dry and cook it separately if you're making multiple servings. This is how I manage both rice and pasta for myself while the men in my life get a big vat to serve themselves from.

mrp56839

Your numbers aren't working out because the water you've added by cooking the rice has added weight to your rice.

It's just easier for me to figure this way:

1c uncooked rice = ~640 calories.

1c uncooked rice = ~4c cooked rice

640calories / 4c = 160 calories per cup of cooked rice.