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Weighing food

sarahfadell87
sarahfadell87 Posts: 182 Member
edited December 2024 in Getting Started
When you weigh food, should it be cooked or raw?

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  • harper16
    harper16 Posts: 2,564 Member
    I believe you weigh the raw ingredients.
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    The nutritional info will state "prepared" if the calories on the packaging are after it's been cooked, but generally most things listed are the raw weight
  • RandyMarieJourneytoHealthy
    RandyMarieJourneytoHealthy Posts: 11 Member
    Raw
  • fatmanthinuk
    fatmanthinuk Posts: 44 Member
    edited May 2020
    You usually weight the raw ingredients. Think about a slice of toast for example. The slice of bread has around 90 calories in it. Toasting it doesn't change that, but what it does do it remove water from the slice of bread making it weigh less. So if you weighed the toast but used the bread figures, you'd be eating more calories than you think you are.

    Most meats behave in the same way. When you cook them they become denser as water evaporates making the calories per gram higher in cooked meat than raw. I hope this makes sense!
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