We are pleased to announce that on March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor will be introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the upcoming changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!

How does a 100g of cooked rice look like?

ironclaw79
ironclaw79 Posts: 42 Member
edited February 12 in Food and Nutrition
I tend to cheat sometimes when logging my rice intake because I am not sure if I ate a cupful of it or just 100 grams. How does a 100 gram of rice look like? Obviously, I don't have a scale. How many tablespoons of rice to reach 100 grams of it?

Replies

  • cactuswax
    cactuswax Posts: 77 Member
    This is a cool site... shows you images of real portion sizes. Great for visual learners, like myself :)

    http://blog.photocalorie.com/portion-sizes/
  • jayjay12345654321
    jayjay12345654321 Posts: 653 Member
    It's really hard to say since there is no direct equivalency between weight and volume. 100 grams of cotton balls is an entire bag. 100 grams of beans is around a 1/4 cup. Depends on your rice, but figure it to be 1/2 cup cooked. That's about 8 tablespoons. You should really invest the $15 in a food scale to know for sure though.
  • GingerLolita
    GingerLolita Posts: 738 Member
    I'm pretty sure MFP has options to log cooked rice so I don't know why you even need to know...
  • ironclaw79
    ironclaw79 Posts: 42 Member
    I'm pretty sure MFP has options to log cooked rice so I don't know why you even need to know...
    I don't know if my serving is 100g or a cup full of rice. I am not sure.
  • ironclaw79
    ironclaw79 Posts: 42 Member
    This is a cool site... shows you images of real portion sizes. Great for visual learners, like myself :)

    http://blog.photocalorie.com/portion-sizes/
    Thank you for sharing that although there is no sample of 100g rice
  • arrseegee
    arrseegee Posts: 575 Member
    This is a cool site... shows you images of real portion sizes. Great for visual learners, like myself :)

    http://blog.photocalorie.com/portion-sizes/

    Fantastic website, thanks for sharing!
  • arrseegee
    arrseegee Posts: 575 Member
    What sort of rice is it? A cup of cooked brown rice is 206g (281 cal), a cup of cooked basmati rice is 162g (203 cal), a cup of normal white rice is 144 (169 cal). This information is from food composition tables I have used for work, and demonstrates why you need a scale, because even rice, which kind of gets lumped into one category, can radically differ between variants.

    By the way this is a standard 250ml cup measure.
  • ironclaw79
    ironclaw79 Posts: 42 Member
    My concern is, I know how much calories is there in a 100 grams of rice, but I don't know how big a 100 grams of rice is. I don't have a point of comparison regarding this. Is it as big as a chicken leg, or as small as a scoop of an ice cream.
  • Carnivor0us
    Carnivor0us Posts: 1,752 Member
    This is a cool site... shows you images of real portion sizes. Great for visual learners, like myself :)

    http://blog.photocalorie.com/portion-sizes/
    Thank you for sharing that although there is no sample of 100g rice

    There is a sample of a cup of rice...
  • Carnivor0us
    Carnivor0us Posts: 1,752 Member
    That 'serving' of three ounces of steak sure made me LOL irl....
This discussion has been closed.

Categories