Cooked Basmati Rice?

fattyboom123
fattyboom123 Posts: 7
in Food and Nutrition
I'm eating Laila Basmati Rice, I can only find the nutritional information for it Uncooked, which I know is inaccurate as rice tends to puff up when cooked.

Any help?

My mum just cooks it with water, and she doesn't drain the water out (I know some people do)

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  • bah_bug
    bah_bug Posts: 32 Member
    The nutrition info will be essentially the same, but 1 cup cooked is about equal to 1/4 cup raw. Rice typically expands 3-4 times its raw volume when cooked.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Look for the 'white rice cooked' entries without asterisks and use those... should come in grams or cups (but really, use grams if you can).
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    I'm eating Laila Basmati Rice, I can only find the nutritional information for it Uncooked, which I know is inaccurate as rice tends to puff up when cooked.

    It's the other way 'round - weight it uncooked and use uncooked numbers from the database.

    "Puff up" is just the rice absorbing water. Because water is so heavy, "cooked" values have much more error in the number because not everybody cooks to the same level of water absorption.
  • fattyboom123
    fattyboom123 Posts: 7
    The nutrition info will be essentially the same, but 1 cup cooked is about equal to 1/4 cup raw. Rice typically expands 3-4 times its raw volume when cooked.

    So you're saying if I have 100g of Cooked RIce, I should take the quarter value of 100g of uncooked rice info?
    Look for the 'white rice cooked' entries without asterisks and use those... should come in grams or cups (but really, use grams if you can).

    The calories mentioned there is somewhat different to the method I gathered above.... So which is the right way?
    It's the other way 'round - weight it uncooked and use uncooked numbers from the database.

    "Puff up" is just the rice absorbing water. Because water is so heavy, "cooked" values have much more error in the number because not everybody cooks to the same level of water absorption.

    That would be pretty hard for me to do, considering around 2 cups is about 4 servings+
  • bah_bug
    bah_bug Posts: 32 Member
    Yes - 100g cooked will be equal to 25g-33g raw, provided it's cooked with water.

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