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Weight of before/after cooking meat!

sunlover89
sunlover89 Posts: 436 Member
edited January 28 in Food and Nutrition
I just cooked some pork belly. Before cooking it was 300g, after I boiled then pan fried it it was 180g. Do I use the before or after weight? On the packet it says next to the nutritional information "pan fried", so I'm not sure whether it's saying per 100g raw or cooked...

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  • DCruz83
    DCruz83 Posts: 99
    I've always wondered myself but if the packet lists nutritional info after being cooked, I'd go with the cooked weight.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Before, unless the packaging says otherwise...for example, bacon will usually say something like "Two fried slices." Otherwise, it's before.
  • sunlover89
    sunlover89 Posts: 436 Member
    Thing is on the packet it says "per 100g panfried" but i'm not sure if that is just a cooking suggestion or the actual nutrition content per 100g cooked. Hmm
  • corgicake
    corgicake Posts: 846 Member
    Check 'servings per package' and use that to figure it out. I prefer to use raw meat figures if I can get them because that's how I generally buy it.
  • ShannonMpls
    ShannonMpls Posts: 1,936 Member
    Thing is on the packet it says "per 100g panfried" but i'm not sure if that is just a cooking suggestion or the actual nutrition content per 100g cooked. Hmm

    That, to me, indicates 100g cooked. I'd log 180g of delicious, delicious pork belly.

    To answer your question: generally, I always weigh raw, except when it's something like bacon or, as the case may be, pork belly.
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