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Raw foods vs cooked foods?

yayhappygirly
yayhappygirly Posts: 13 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
So 100g of raw carrot is 42 calories so if I boil 100g of carrot would the calories change?

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  • AmazonMayan
    AmazonMayan Posts: 1,168 Member
    No
  • thenewkayla
    thenewkayla Posts: 314 Member
    Nope
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    I posted this in your other thread and just want to repeat it here in case anyone wanders in with the same question: The calories in the carrots wouldn't change, but the weight of them would. So if you weighed them after cooking but used a raw entry to log them it would be off. The information on your nutrition label is usually for the raw weight (unless the label specifies otherwise). If you need/want to weigh it after cooking, that's fine. Just be sure you're choosing an accurate and appropriate entry from the database that specifies it's for the cooked weight (ie you wouldn't use a grilled entry if you boiled it, etc)
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