Are pasta weights cooked or uncooked?

emcdonie
emcdonie Posts: 190 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Anyone know if 4 oz of pasta in the database is cooked or uncooked most likely??? I am trying estimate the chicken and noodles I made for dinner, just roughly trying to guess what was in my bowl.

I put in 4 oz for just the noodles and it said 400 calories. Sound right? It was probably a 3/4 to 1 cup cooked fettucine noodles.

I started wondering if a weight on pasta is usually measured uncooked/dry??

I have been trying to measure things and weigh them more often. Tonight is admittedly just a rough estimate, some homemade meals are hard to figure when cooking for the whole family etc.

But for future reference I wasn't sure how I should handle pasta measures in the database??? Thanks in advance if anyone replies.

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  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    It usually says but if you want to be sure put pasta dry in the search. It's far more accurate to use the dry weight.
  • emcdonie
    emcdonie Posts: 190 Member
    must have missed it... I only noticed the one. Pasta is something I haven't had too much of since logging on MFP so I hadn't given it much thought until today.

    Thanks
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    As a general rule, it's not precise but close enough, you can use the 2:1 ratio. Cooked pasta weighs about twice as much as uncooked and most boxes give uncooked nutritional information.
  • vzryder
    vzryder Posts: 129 Member
    that was a great question, have often wondered too!
  • smor27
    smor27 Posts: 87
    1 oz uncooked = 2 oz cooked.

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