Help with pasta calories

bextas
bextas Posts: 12
in Food and Nutrition
Weighed out 209 grams dried weight fusili pasta the calories on the back say 100gs is 156 calories now I'm eating it I think I bet that's cooked weight oh crap! What do I put the calories down as? Thanks guys feel a right numpty!

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  • Samstan101
    Samstan101 Posts: 699 Member
    209g of dried pasta is approx 815cals according to the food database.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Pasta is around 350 calories for 100 grams dry weight.

    The package shouldn't list cooked weight, it's misleading, as you have experienced now.
  • bextas
    bextas Posts: 12
    Oh rubbish :-( no dinner for me then thought there was a lot there!
  • evileen99
    evileen99 Posts: 1,564 Member
    Pasta calories are dry weight, not cooked weight. That was about 325 calories

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