Question on the weight of foods and calories

tyresank

Sorry if this seems like a stupid questions but.....
If a package of frozen Fish for example says a 4oz serving is 230 calories, does one assume that is the fozen weight or the cooked weight. Prior to baking my fish is 2.8 or 3 oz, but after cooking it might several ounces less. So which is the calorie content that one uses?

dls06

Still the same amount of calories just less water. :flowerforyou:

Pandorian

I will always use raw weights, because you can't be sure that your "cooked" method is the same amount of cooking. IE take a raw piece of meat, cook it blue rare.... weigh it its less than what you started with... cook it til well done... it weighs even less... but calories contained are the same, it's just moisture that cooked out.

cassyparker

you go by the pre-cooked weight unless it says specifically that the calories are for the amount cooked

tyresank

Thanks everyone, I thought as much but just wanted to be certain.

TAWoody

Some packages of meat will specify if their serving nutrition info is raw, pre-cooked, or cooked so maybe you'll get lucky.