Cooked vs Raw

1krazycat

Hi, does anyone know a good app to convert cooked chicken, fish, meat to raw in grams?

BarbaraHelen2013

I’d be surprised if any app could do that with any meaningful degree of accuracy!

Too many variables - how was it cooked? Steamed, grilled, roasted, boiled, fried etc all will impact the resultant weight and calorie content. Not to mention added oil/butter from the specific cooking method.

It’s best to weigh meat raw and add oil/butter as a separate item but if you’re asking the question because you’re not in a position to weigh an item in it’s raw state then second best is to find a database entry for your item that states that it’s cooked and preferably includes the cooking method.

Justin_7272

This website is the best I've found;

https://data.nal.usda.gov/dataset/usda-table-cooking-yields-meat-and-poultry

The last document is a spreadsheet listing various foods with various cooking methods. It's decently accurate.

lemurcat2

Why would you need to do the conversion? It would be as accurate or more so to just use an entry for cooked meat.