Measuring cooked black beans

BeYouTiful94

This is probably the dumbest question, but I just need clarification. This package of dried black beans states that the serving size is 1/4 cup beans dry. Soooo ... What about when you cook em? They swell. So, I'm assuming the calories would still be the same, since I'm cooking them in water?????? Also, what about everything else? There are more dry beans in 1/4 a cup than wet ones, so the fiber count would be off, etc. I may just be complicating it, but in gonna ask anyway haha

RoxieDawn

Weigh them out dry and use the nutrition values that way.

You can never estimate how much water is cooked in or out of food (such as beans or rice), how much fat or other "stuff" in cooked out of it.

I am a "raw" logger. I weigh everything raw (all meats, veggies, fruits etc..) then cook. There may be mixed reviews on this, I find it too cumbersome to worry about water, fat and other stuff that gets cooked out of food to worry about it.

What you want is the nutritional value of the actual food macro.

BekahC1980

Measure the dry beans add water and whatever else your adding. Put it into the recipe builder once it's done weigh the finished product in grams.

socajam

Do a search online that will tell you exactly how much 1/4 cup dry beans add up to, I think its 1 cup coked ,but not sure. Cannot remember the website, a search will help you.

BeYouTiful94

socajam wrote: »

Do a search online that will tell you exactly how much 1/4 cup dry beans add up to, I think its 1 cup coked ,but not sure. Cannot remember the website, a search will help you.

Ah ok! I did a search and found something promising!

Thanks all!

Francl27

Weigh them raw. Figure out how many servings you cooked. Then weigh them cooked, and divide by the number of servings, to get the serving size cooked.