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Quinoa HELP!

Lyra89
Lyra89 Posts: 674 Member
edited January 1 in Food and Nutrition
Just cooked up some quinoa with a vegetable stock cube, tastes gorgeous! BUT...everyone online says that 1 cup dry = 3 cups cooked. I only got 2 cups cooked :-/ Did I do something wrong?

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  • melsinct
    melsinct Posts: 3,512 Member
    Things that absorb water, like rice, quinoa, pasta, etc. should be logged as dry or uncooked. Each item will absorb a different amount of liquid depending how much you cooked it, how dry the item was, etc. It is too subjective if not accounted for as dry weight or measure.
  • Lyra89
    Lyra89 Posts: 674 Member
    Thank you so much! I logged half of it as 1/2 cup dry...thankfully, because its 100 calories more than myfitnesspal says for 1 cup cooked :smile:
  • HisPathDaily
    HisPathDaily Posts: 672 Member
    Cook it how you like it! :)

    Use raw/uncooked weight and measurements as they'll be accurate obviously ...

    Good stuff :)
  • m0mofw4r
    m0mofw4r Posts: 74 Member
    Things that absorb water, like rice, quinoa, pasta, etc. should be logged as dry or uncooked. Each item will absorb a different amount of liquid depending how much you cooked it, how dry the item was, etc. It is too subjective if not accounted for as dry weight or measure.

    Good to know - I've been logging this stuff cooked for quite some time now... :ohwell:
  • mamamc03
    mamamc03 Posts: 1,067 Member
    Cook it how you like it! :)

    Use raw/uncooked weight and measurements as they'll be accurate obviously ...

    Good stuff :)

    ^^^FTW
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