How to enter soup kits

toots12
toots12 Posts: 4 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hi everyone. I'll often buy a supermarket packet labelled "vegetable soup kit" which is basically packet of veggies cut up. Packed reads 250ml as 35 calories. Silly question
- Does calories count changed when cooked?

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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    I'd weigh the vegies and log them individually...
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,839 Member
    Yes, calorie values change marginally with cooking. For some items it goes up; for others it goes down. For the most part, you can just do the measurements while it's raw -- a heck of a lot easier most of the time.

    What you can't do is figure the weight stays the same with cooking. For example, rice greatly increases weight because it soaks up water; some meats lose a lot of weight as fats and juices cook away. That's why for quite a few things the USDA database has different listings for some raw and cooked foods.

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