Meat calories, raw / cooked weight

lovetta88

When the nutritional information for a (for example) 100g pork Chop 'as sold', is 199 calories. Say my raw pork Chop weight is 100g..... when I grill that pork Chop, and it loses weight, is it STILL 199 calories, providing I haven't added oil or anything to the equation?
And conversely, if I pan fried in a tablespoon of oil, is it 199 calories plus the oil calories?

cwolfman13

lovetta88 wrote: »

When the nutritional information for a (for example) 100g pork Chop 'as sold', is 199 calories. Say my raw pork Chop weight is 100g..... when I grill that pork Chop, and it loses weight, is it STILL 199 calories, providing I haven't added oil or anything to the equation?
And conversely, if I pan fried in a tablespoon of oil, is it 199 calories plus the oil calories?

It doesn't lose calories from cooking...it weighs less because water/moisture gets cooked off. If you fried it in oil there would be some calories for the oil, but that's very difficult to determine.

mariam_uteem

I would normally measure the amount of oil you fry it in and count it from there. So normally I'd use 1 tsp of olive oil on a good nonstick pan. Hope this hrlos

LivingtheLeanDream

Weigh the raw meat and use that entry.
There's enough oil in the fat from the pork itself so there's no need to add any oil, especially if you use a non stick pan.

Wheelhouse15

cwolfman13 wrote: »

lovetta88 wrote: »

When the nutritional information for a (for example) 100g pork Chop 'as sold', is 199 calories. Say my raw pork Chop weight is 100g..... when I grill that pork Chop, and it loses weight, is it STILL 199 calories, providing I haven't added oil or anything to the equation?
And conversely, if I pan fried in a tablespoon of oil, is it 199 calories plus the oil calories?

It doesn't lose calories from cooking...it weighs less because water/moisture gets cooked off. If you fried it in oil there would be some calories for the oil, but that's very difficult to determine.

Actually, as far as net calories goes, those that can be absorbed, cooking increases the calories your body can actually access. This is one reason why we developed large brains because our hominid ancestors started cooking and that allowed for better energy absorption from food.

Ok, nothing to do with the way you should be logging food but it is a fun fact.