Weight of meats? Cooked or Raw

tellybelle

when you chose a meat to log from the database and it is just listed In general, are you logging that as the weight before or after cooking? I see a lot of diary entries that say " chicken breast- 6oz " or "tilapia filet- 4oz" is this the cooked or raw weight?

taso42_DELETED

The weights are generally for the raw meat unless they say "cooked" in the description. I usually log it by cooked weight because it just ends up more convenient for me to weigh after cooking.

Edited to add:
So far it's been pretty reliable for me to just enter things like "chicken breast cooked" (without quotes) when searching for food, and it brings up some good entries to choose from. As opposed to just searching for "chicken breast" and having to manually search for the cooked ones.

Peep_chic

good question I'd like to know also. I weighted my fish before and after one time and it seemed to be lighter after I cooked it. :huh:

NoAdditives

Weights for things like meat, oatmeal, pasta, etc. are normally uncooked because cooking either cooks out or adds water, which doesn't affect the nutritional content.

Angela4Health

raw

petchonka82

Raw. Before you cook it. When you cook it you may lose some water weight, but shouldn't be more than an ounce. Better to over shoot than under.

cmriverside

yeah, unless it's really fatty, like steak or hight fat fish, I don't think the nutritional content would change alot, but it isn't just water that cooks out, the fat does too.


I always use Mike's numbers, and weight before cooking. Don't get too hung up on these things.....

petchonka82

Weights for things like meat, oatmeal, pasta, etc. are normally uncooked because cooking either cooks out or adds water, which doesn't affect the nutritional content.

Excellent way to put it!