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Should i weigh food before or after cooking!!!

fatoomalrowaiei
fatoomalrowaiei Posts: 95 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I googled , i watched YouTube videos but none of it seems to give me an answer, i weigh potatoes for 180g which is prob 196 calorie then i used my air fryer cooker and it weighs 75g = 120calorie
Im confused i dont know which one to choose
Can you guys help?!!

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Ideally raw/uncooked
  • pebble4321
    pebble4321 Posts: 1,132 Member
    You can do either.
    If you weigh it raw, look for a database entry for: potato raw
    If you weigh it cooked, look for: potato cooked (plus log any oil or other ingredients used to cook it).
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Before. It sucks to weigh cooked food.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    I do before as the nutrition on the food packaging info is almost always before. For bacon, I weigh after and log it as cooked.
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Most foods are weighed before cooking. If it is a packaged food, the nutrition label will specify if it is for the uncooked or prepared serving weight. Be sure to use a database entry for the uncooked food.

    Some foods, such as bacon, are often labelled with serving portions for the weight after cooking, because cooking changes the food significantly from the raw state (such as rendering out fat). Again, if the label calls out the cooked weight, go by that and use a corresponding database entry.
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