Rice calorie Count confusion

Dhathri

I bought a bag of jasmine rice from Costco. On the bag it says half cup is 70 calories. I am confused whether it is referring to uncooked rice or cooked rice. Can you guys please clarify. I have same question for other brand rice bags.

Ely82010

Uncooked

TeamLeela

I would say cooked because a half of cup of uncooked rice will probably make about a cup and a half cooked rice and its hard to think that its only 70 calories in one and a half cups of cooked rice.

Aeriel

Most of those bags should also give you a note about how much cooked rice an uncooked portion will produce.

TeamLeela

I just looked in the food data base on here about generic jasmine rice. 1 cooked cup= 205 cal also there is one that says 1/4 uncooked cup or 3/4 cooked cup = 160 calories! hope that helps.

lutzsher

Info on the product package is ALWAYS uncooked unless specified.

DrBorkBork

Rice is generally 100 cals per half cup cooked (200 for a cup cooked)

mr_ashley

Damn rice is pretty heavy on calories then, huh? Maybe I won't be eating so much of it, though i love steamed brown rice.

reese66

http://www.truestarhealth.com/Notes/1791001.html

Nutrition Highlights
Jasmine rice, 1 cup (200g) (cooked)
Calories: 205
Protein: 4.2g
Carbohydrate: 44.5g
Total Fat: 0.44g
Fiber: 0.63g
*Good source of: Iron (1.9mg), Selenium (11.8mcg), Thiamine (0.26mg), and Niacin (2.3mg)

This only cooked in water and pinch of salt...

Dhathri

Thank you for your replies folks.