Macros for raw meat?

teamguzman
teamguzman Posts: 13
in Food and Nutrition
I have a question how do i find out the gram size after i cooked the meat that will equal to the macro label? for example ground turkey? I use a food scale btw. just wondering how much grams will it be after its cooked?

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  • gmthisfeller
    gmthisfeller Posts: 779 Member
    I have a question how do i find out the gram size after i cooked the meat that will equal to the macro label? for example ground turkey? I use a food scale btw. just wondering how much grams will it be after its cooked?

    Very seldom do you want the cooked weight, since most most recommendations, food labels, and the like are "pre-cooked."
  • teamguzman
    teamguzman Posts: 13
    the serving size on the label is 100 g so i just measure 100g after its cooked and it will be the same nutrition facts on the label?
  • extraordinary_machine
    extraordinary_machine Posts: 3,028 Member
    It's for the pre-cooked weight.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Why can't you measure it before cooking?

    For what it's worth, the difference in the weight is only water when it comes to ground turkey, so don't get too obsessive.
  • cmeiron
    cmeiron Posts: 1,599 Member
    Didn't you ask the same thing already for raw chicken breasts?

    Meat rule: for ALL MEAT, if you want an accurate idea of the calories and macros, you weigh the meat that you're going to eat RAW and enter that amount in your diary. Then cook it. Then eat it.

    If it's too complicated for whatever reason to weigh raw, just cook the meat and then use the USDA measurements for cooked meat products that are in the database.

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