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Weighing food

mycupyourcake
mycupyourcake Posts: 279 Member
edited February 17 in Health and Weight Loss
I have been weighing my meats after they are cooked and just read that they should be weighed before! Ruh roh. Anyone have any idea how much caloric variance there is in say a chicken breast weighed at 4 oz after cooking? I plan on weighing today and calculating it.

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  • annetteh145
    annetteh145 Posts: 38 Member
    Chicken breast loses about 30% moisture when cooked. So, if you have 10z cooked chicken it was actually over 13oz before it was cooked. Veggies can be even more... figure how a handful of spinach can turn easily into a tablespoon after being cooked.

    If I have something already cooked and I don't know I usually just google "how many calories in xyz cooked"
  • wannakimmy
    wannakimmy Posts: 488 Member
    Yep, just had a 20 oz package of chicken breast and when I cubed it and cooked it, it weighed 13 oz. HUGE difference. Glad I am learning all this stuff as I go. Some I never would have thought of.
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