raw vs. prepared weight ready-made meal confusion

yirara
yirara Posts: 10,684 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
What the... not keen on ready-made meals, but anyway. Bought a pack of 'pulled pork with BBQ Sauce' from UK Aldi today. The calorie amount is mentioned as 304kcal per 1/2 pack (1 serving, contains 2 servings of 128 grams oven cooked). But the back of the package also mentions '380 grams' in the package. Does more than 120 grams just go 'poof' when cooking this product in the oven?

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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Sounds likely, it's called evaporation - all that steam produced.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,684 Member
    Yes, true. Quiet telling about the quality of this meat I guess :/ Oh well.. keeps husband happy, and I'm sure the taste is good enough. Needs to be grilled for 40 minutes, btw, pulled apart and then back into the oven for another while.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Most meat is >50% Water - add up the fat and protein then subtract from 100.
  • cw106
    cw106 Posts: 952 Member
    all uk supplies are legally obliged to state the cals per 100g.this is the stat i use.
    some places like aldi/lidl play a bit fast and loose with "serving size" imo.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,684 Member
    edited May 2016
    cw106 wrote: »
    all uk supplies are legally obliged to state the cals per 100g.this is the stat i use.
    some places like aldi/lidl play a bit fast and loose with "serving size" imo.

    Yes, seems more realistic. I'll certainly weight this product after cooking it as I'm curious myself on how much 'weight' vanished from preparing it and how much 'half a pack' really is.
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