Food weight/calories after cooking

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digidoomed
digidoomed Posts: 151 Member
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I was meal prepping for the week and I cooked these salmon fillets that came individually packaged in a bag. According to the nutrition facts, each fillet was 4oz with its respective calories. I didn't think much of it and went ahead and cooked them. Today I decided to weigh one cause I just got a food scale and I wanted to test it out and the fillet I weighed was between 2-3oz. My question is does food lose weight when you cook it? And if it does, does it still have the same calories/macros that is printed in the nutrition facts?

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  • DeviatedNorm
    DeviatedNorm Posts: 422 Member
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    It loses water weight. Water doesn't have calories. If it loses calories otherwise (e.g. stuff sticking to the pan) it's negligible.

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