Cooked vs uncooked rice

Joannesmith2818

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!

wtw0n

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

When in doubt I just use the 'cooked rice' entry in the database.

GlitterrMagpie

100g when cooked is a small portion, I usually have double that. 130 calories sounds right to me

ClementineGeorg

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

why not just cook 1 serving of rice and see how much it weights.

HappyStack

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.