Roasting veg - weigh before or after?

Jacq_qui

I like to put veggies in the oven - peppers, courgette, tomatoes are my favourite. But they weigh nothing when they come out of the oven, I can eat half a courgette and it weighs a few grams and barely contains any calories. Should I be weighing this pre-cooking? I can't tell which is more accurate. Thanks.

harper16

Pre cooking is more accurate.

VegjoyP

I weigh it raw before cooking. after roasting, steaming, grilling the water content varies and if it is cooked in anything I measure that before as well.

lynn_glenmont

Just make sure you use a database entry for cooked if you weigh cooked, and for raw if you weigh raw.

yirara

I would use raw. If you cook your food it loses water, but the calories are still there as water has no calories. You could use cooked entries, but you don't know on what temperature and duration that number is based.

Jacq_qui

Thank you, much appreciated.