Raw to cooked calculator

Sofia060

There are a lot of meal preppers out there and for those that cook for the entire week, it would useful to type total weight when raw and weight after cooking. So if you want to eat e.g. 100g of rice, the app would show that what you need on your plate are 200g (according to the weights inserted).

Jean

Thanks so much for this recommendation! I will bring this back to the team to consider for a future update. Some helpful information as you continue:

In general, foods do not lose mass during cooking except by losing moisture or possibly from fat run-off. Some frozen foods may lose a bit of water weight when cooked, if they have accumulated frost in the freezer. Generally speaking, in the long run, the change in weight is statistically insignificant and should not affect your goals.

As a rule of thumb, it should be safe to assume, if a food item does not mention a method of cooking (Chicken Breast - Grilled, for example) it's most likely the item is meant to be in the uncooked or raw state. Please note, some items in our database are entered by other users, and they may not have clarified cooked vs. raw in these entries.

There is always a margin of error in everything involved in calorie counting: no one person's metabolism is exactly like another, so even our calculations of your calories needed for the day are not 100 percent precise to the exact calorie. We expect you will experience positive weight management results, even if the numbers are off, to a small degree due to loss of moisture between raw and cooked states, or even the inability to exactly pinpoint your metabolic needs, using generalized equations.

Hopefully this helps in the meantime!