confused sweet potato help people

jennifer_255
jennifer_255 Posts: 86 Member
in Food and Nutrition
hi all i weighed my sweet potato raw 233 grams and boiled its gonna be a lot less........ do i go by the raw weight or the boiled weight xxxx

thanks in advance

xxxx

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  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,338 Member
    Why would it weight less boiled? Weight the potato just before going into the water.
  • twixlepennie
    twixlepennie Posts: 1,074 Member
    I eat a sweet potato almost every day and I weigh it before baking.
  • climbing_trees
    climbing_trees Posts: 726 Member
    There are separate entries for raw and cooked sweet potatoes. I usually do the raw weight, just my preference. Easier to keep the scale clean.

    Search for "sweet potato raw" and enter 233 g.
  • Escloflowne
    Escloflowne Posts: 2,038 Member
    I've found it doesn't change much but the most accurate way to figure it out is weigh it before and then after it's cooked and if it's changed you just do the math so you can find out how many cals are in the cooked portion for leftovers. Raw is the correct amount of calories for anything really because you never know how much moisture will be lost or absorb through cooking
  • lebbyloses
    lebbyloses Posts: 133 Member
    If you weighed it raw, use that. I don't know about boiling, but I've read sweet potatoes lose up to have their water when you bake them, but they don't lose calories. So you'll get a more accurate count raw.
  • jennifer_255
    jennifer_255 Posts: 86 Member
    Thanks guys it went from 233 to 199 don't no how thru boiling would understand baked I'll just always go by raw amount x

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