potato...a thing...

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JaydedMiss
JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I love potatoes iv lost lots of weight eating lots of potatoes so this isnt a worry of mine im just curious because i just noticed something..

I took 314 grams of potato and microwaved it. Out of habit for some reason when i took it out i reweighed it (never done that before was on autopilot) It came to 244 grams. So it lost 70 grams in the microwave.

Now im going to log it as 314grams as i always have and i know it must just be water dissapearing, But just double checking, What would you log it as? 314? 244? somewhere in the middle?

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Yes...it just lost water while cooking...that doesn't reduce calories.
  • CafeRacer808
    CafeRacer808 Posts: 2,396 Member
    edited January 2017
    Yes, a food loses water and fat (if applicable) during the cooking process. Hence the change in weight. There are both raw and cooked entries in the food database and since you weighed the potato both before and after cooking, which entry you choose is up to you.

    That said, the amount of water (or fat) lost can vary depending on cooking time and method, so it's generally best to go with raw weights and raw database entries.

    ETA: The amount of calories in your potato is still the same, but it's calories per gram is now different, obviously.
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  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    If you're using the raw potato entry in the database, then it would be 314g.
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    It's 314g of raw potato or 244g of cooked potato. If the entries are correct, the calories should be about the same.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »
    314. It didn't lose calories when it lost water.

    Yup. Unfortunately you only cooked out water, not calories.
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    edited January 2017
    I always use raw, flesh and skin entry for potatoes. The length of time you cook a vegetable will affect how much water is lost through cooking and will cause some variation in the final cooked weight if you choose to always weigh the finished product. There's some argument to be made that fresher produce weighs more than less fresh produce based on it dehydrating a bit as well.

    I still try to err on the side of being as generous as I can with accounting for calories consumed, so I weigh everything raw.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,174 Member
    On a similar note I realised the other day I'd been weighing potatoes before I peeled them and there was about 40g difference :lol:
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