Cooked vs uncooked rice

Joannesmith2818
Joannesmith2818 Posts: 438 Member
in Food and Nutrition
So i have been logging rice for a looong time, and I suddenly thought...I don't no if that's cooked or dry. So i cooked my rice today (its brown medium grain) and after cooking it weighed 100g.

I threw out the packet so I cant look at that. On here I see that one entry for Tesco easy cook brown rice is about 130cals for 100g cooked, then on others its more like 300 cals.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_calories_in_100g_of_rice

This website seems to support the lower calorie option.

So my question; Does around 130 cals seem about right for 100g of cooked brown rice? It seems quite low that's all :/

Thanks in advance!

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  • wtw0n
    wtw0n Posts: 1,083 Member
    I'm just gonna leave this here...

    Uncooked brown rice: http://www.fineli.fi/food.php?foodid=28910&lang=en
    Cooked brown rice (without salt): http://www.fineli.fi/food.php?foodid=1370&lang=en
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    When in doubt I just use the 'cooked rice' entry in the database.
  • GlitterrMagpie
    GlitterrMagpie Posts: 302 Member
    100g when cooked is a small portion, I usually have double that. 130 calories sounds right to me
  • ClementineGeorg
    ClementineGeorg Posts: 505 Member
    What does cooked rice mean? Risoto like? Boiled to the end of the world? A little `al dente`? What type of rice?
    It depends so much on the quantity of water absorbed that I always weight it uncooked.

    Whole grain white rice (at least the one I use) when it's cooked all the way (it absorbed all the water it can) almost triples it's weight, so a 370ish calories 100 g rice goes to 300 g of cooked rice so 130 calories seems ok.

    But if it's a type of rice that doesn't absorb that much water and you cook it `al dente`, I don't think it would be only 130 calories. But I doubt that if you just boiled it you go up to 300 calories.
    300 g calories for 100 g is more like for a risoto cooked in broth and wine.
  • Commander_Keen
    Commander_Keen Posts: 1,179 Member
    why not just cook 1 serving of rice and see how much it weights.
  • HappyStack
    HappyStack Posts: 802 Member
    Is the nutritional information for your product not on the Tesco website? (tesco.com/groceries)

    I buy Tilda's brown basmati rice, and it roughly trebles in volume the way I cook it... so 180g of cooked would be roughly 60g uncooked, and that's around 144kcal.

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