Pasta confusion!

loulouowens

Hi all

I'm struggling to find accurate pasta calories, I've looked on database but there's so many listings!!

Can anyone tell me how many calories there are in 100g dried and 100g cooked? Sometimes I cook a large pan for family and take a small amount for me so cooked would be useful.

I never use fresh on dried. Does the shape matter? Penne, bow tie etc

Thank you

cwolfman13

the package should tell you...it's usually the dry weight. If you want the cooked weight and accuracy, the best thing you could do is cook a dry serving and then weigh that out cooked.

Ready2Rock206

Does your package have nutritional information? I would use the recipe builder using the dry calories for your pan for your family to be most accurate - depending how you cook it the weight of the cooked amount will change but the calories do not. Different shapes would be different weights and different types are different calories.

loulouowens

Hi
I
Don't have the wrapping because the
Pasta has been decanted into a storage jar.

I've cooked a big pan and weighed out 61g cooked penne, any ideas?

ValerieMartini2Olives

I never understand how this question constantly comes up. Dry pasta expands a ton when cooked because of the amount of water it absorbs. Always weigh your food dry or raw unless the packaging says otherwise. 100g of dry pasta will absolutely not be 100g of cooked pasta.

cwolfman13

loulouowens wrote: »

Hi
I
Don't have the wrapping because the
Pasta has been decanted into a storage jar.

I've cooked a big pan and weighed out 61g cooked penne, any ideas?

I put it in here...

http://www.caloriegallery.com/foods/calories-in-penne-pasta-cooked.htm

It says about 114 calories...sounds about right to me.

cityruss

100g dry will be around 360cal
100g cooked will be in the region of 150cal

Cooked -https://groceries.asda.com/product/spaghetti-tagliatelle/asda-chosen-by-you-spaghetti/36628

Uncooked - http://m.tesco.com/h5/groceries/r/www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=258131576

loulouowens

Thank you all so much!

And am I right in thinking if I weigh 100g dry, cook it then eat it the calories won't change? Even though it obviously weighs more then. As long as I boil in plain old water and don't add anything oil etc

Sorry to be a bit dim

cwolfman13

loulouowens wrote: »

Thank you all so much!

And am I right in thinking if I weigh 100g dry, cook it then eat it the calories won't change? Even though it obviously weighs more then. As long as I boil in plain old water and don't add anything oil etc

Sorry to be a bit dim

The calories won't change...the weight changes because there's more water in the pasta...water doesn't change calories.

LushFix

I weight my pasta before I cook it'

Let's say I want 3 servings of 85 g. I would weight out 255 grams of pasta ( 85x3= 255)

Once it has been cooked and drained I weigh the entire batch in grams and divide it by three again' whatever the amount is I eat one portion.