Logging cooked vs uncooked meals

rojinashrestha672

Do we log say instance cooked rice portion in gram or uncooked rice, if you are eating cooked rice as they both have significant differences in calories ?
Seems like I have been doing it wrong all this time.

NotForJustNowForever

In the recipes part of the app I log uncooked. Partly because I cook several portions and then put away each individual portion. In the main diary part of the app I log in what's already cooked because generally that's what I take out of my fridge or similar.

If it feels like you got it wrong, that's ok! Now you know that both differ. I got it wrong before I noticed the difference too! Now I always search "rice dry" for example. Or "[type of meat and cut if it makes a difference] raw".

yirara

You need to consider what cooking does for food. Rice, pasta and similar things absorb fluid and become heavier for the same amount of calories while meat loses moisture and becomes lighter with cooking. How much is gained or lost depends on the preparation method and length of cooking. Thus in pretty much all cases weighing your food dry/uncooked is more precise. There are database entries though that differentiate between raw/dry and cooked.

Lietchi

Whatever state you decide to weigh your food in (uncooked or cooked) choose a food database entry that reflects that state.

Rice will be around 350kcal per 100gr uncooked, but much less for cooked rice.

5j29tg42y6

Most accurate is to weigh raw to account for the moisture gain/loss. That said, be consistent and then just monitor your weekly weight…IE weigh yourself every morning fasted (after a pee etc), and look at the weekly trend. By weighing and logging consistently you can then easily adjust “weekly” calories to account for your goal.

That’s the easiest way to determine if you are in a true deficit…

csplatt

I’ve always done pasta as dry / raw on a digital food scale but rice as cooked in a measuring cup and it has worked out fine for me.