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Cooked vs. pre-cooked weight

toots99
toots99 Posts: 3,794 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Which do I use? For instance, I just made sweet potato chips. Before cooking, they came out to 130 grams. After cooking, they came out to 57 grams. :huh:

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  • HealthyChanges2010
    HealthyChanges2010 Posts: 5,831 Member
    Which do I use? For instance, I just made sweet potato chips. Before cooking, they came out to 130 grams. After cooking, they came out to 57 grams. :huh:
    I always think to myself am I eating the cooked or uncooked food. I preferred cooked so I count that.:tongue:

    Fish, beef, chicken it all shrinks for various reasons, water content, fat content etc. I've never understood why ppl count meat before it's cooked but some do. For myself as I shared I weigh it after it's cooked because that's the amount I'll be consuming.:wink:

    Hope that helps Woody:tongue:
  • jamie1888
    jamie1888 Posts: 1,704 Member
    There's probably the option to choose either when you enter it.... just search for "raw" or "cooked" and use the one that you want
  • joleanrook
    joleanrook Posts: 117
    When I worked for a large national diet company we were trained to tell all clients that when cooking anything, be it veggies or meats - you always use RAW weights. So however much it weight before cooking it that is what you go by. I suppose the reasoning for that is during the cooking process it is mostly water which is lost from the food - which doesn't go into figuring the nutritional value anyway - but that's just my guess and I know it's not true for all things.

    Anyway - RAW WEIGHTS. That's all I know.

    :)
  • toots99
    toots99 Posts: 3,794 Member
    When I worked for a large national diet company we were trained to tell all clients that when cooking anything, be it veggies or meats - you always use RAW weights. So however much it weight before cooking it that is what you go by. I suppose the reasoning for that is during the cooking process it is mostly water which is lost from the food - which doesn't go into figuring the nutritional value anyway - but that's just my guess and I know it's not true for all things.

    Anyway - RAW WEIGHTS. That's all I know.

    :)

    That sounds reasonable. Thanks. :flowerforyou:
  • toots99
    toots99 Posts: 3,794 Member
    Hope that helps Woody:tongue:

    :laugh: :laugh:
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