Do you weigh your food/meat raw or cooked?

pc986twm4c

Some weight loss plans, say raw while others say to weigh it cooked.

Lietchi

I prefer raw for accuracy, but whatever you choose: make sure to use the right food database entries that correspond with that choice.
Huge difference between the nutritional values of raw and cooked rice, for example!

tomcustombuilder

Raw is much more accurate

Corina1143

Raw when it's easy--which is usually. But it's easy to weigh a to-go stir fry from a local place cooked, can't weigh it raw.

SweatLikeDog

Raw.

AnnPT77

Raw when possible. The water content of many foods changes when cooking: Added weight from something like boiling, subtracted weight from roasting and the like.

The number of calories in the food stay the same as when the food was raw, they're just packed into a different weight of the cooked food.

Since the amount of water added/subtracted can vary, it's most accurate to weigh raw.

If you need to weigh cooked, be sure to pick an entry from the food database that says cooked, ideally with the proper cooking method (like boiled or baked). When weighing raw, pick an entry that's correct for the raw food.

tomcustombuilder

Corina1143 wrote: »

Raw when it's easy--which is usually. But it's easy to weigh a to-go stir fry from a local place cooked, can't weigh it raw.

Then make an educated guess based on similar data log entries.