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Raw Onion Versus Cooked Onion Weight

darreneatschicken
darreneatschicken Posts: 669 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I cooked pork meatballs tonight and I just realized that I have no idea how many grams of onion is in each meatball, as the weight of onion largely decreases after cooking.

So should I just pretend that I didn't eat any onion tonight? For example, if I ate a meatball that weighed 150 grams, then I should just log 150 grams of cooked ground pork? I cooked 7 meatballs and only used half an onion.

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,311 Member
    Half a good-sized onion is going to be around 30 calories. I wouldn't worry about it: Don't log it, or log 4-5 onion calories per meatball if you want to remember there were onions in there. No big deal!

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