weight of food before and after cooking

jess17587
jess17587 Posts: 153
in Food and Nutrition
my mum is doing a roast and i have looked at the chicken and it says on the pack calories when oven baked and this is a probblem because i cant weight out the food when she serves it up and i can only work out form looking at the pack the how many calories in the chicken per 100g when raw (long story) so i need to know how much the chicken will change in weight when cooked please help!!

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  • ell_v131
    ell_v131 Posts: 349 Member
    you can't tell, depends on a lot of factors in the cooking process, mostly how much water and fat it loses.

    If the pack says calories when oven baked, I would go by that, just weigh it after it is baked, once portioned out. Or just find a USDA listing of baked chicken meat.

    When you google a food, a handy table comes out with a lot of options and information, such as here: https://www.google.com/search?q=chicken+meat&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
  • jess17587
    jess17587 Posts: 153
    you can't tell, depends on a lot of factors in the cooking process, mostly how much water and fat it loses.

    If the pack says calories when oven baked, I would go by that, just weigh it after it is baked, once portioned out. Or just find a USDA listing of baked chicken meat.

    When you google a food, a handy table comes out with a lot of options and information, such as here: https://www.google.com/search?q=chicken+meat&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

    so would it mean it weighs more after its cooked per 100g?
  • ell_v131
    ell_v131 Posts: 349 Member
    100g of raw weighs the same as 100g of cooked. The difference is what the 100g contains. Meat is usually more calorie dense once cooked, since a part of it's water content is taken out during cooking. Did you look at the link I googled for you? It gives you calories for roasted chicken.
  • jess17587
    jess17587 Posts: 153
    100g of raw weighs the same as 100g of cooked. The difference is what the 100g contains. Meat is usually more calorie dense once cooked, since a part of it's water content is taken out during cooking. Did you look at the link I googled for you? It gives you calories for roasted chicken.

    yea but google sends me mad with all the info and links i just dont know were to start and when i do everything has to be a bundle of mixed answers ( google is confusing ) thats why i didnt use it in the first place and that's probably why everyone on here starts a form instead of going on google
    thanks for the help it was really use full :)

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