Home Dehydration and Calories Question.

Wynterbourne

I searched the forums to see if this question had been posed before, but the search engine decided to "autocorrect" my search and I got a list of tons of threads on being dehydrated instead of dehydrators.

I dug out my ancient dehydrator when my mother gave me a giant bag of apples. She said she was burned out on them. Now I realize foods dehydrated in a factory usually have sugars and other things added to them, but I'm strictly slicing and dehydrating my fruits and veggies without soaking or treating them with anything. My question is when it comes to counting the calories. My assumption would be to weigh the item before adding it to the dehydrator and checking the total calories for that batch, then weighing the whole batch again after it is done dehydrating and then if the original batch was say four servings for example, dividing the dried batch by four and using the fresh serving calorie count. Does that seem like a reasonable strategy?

lor007

Sounds good to me.

kaizen31

Sounds very reasonable!

kenzietea

sounds like the most accurate way for what tools you have available to you