Am I eating too much rice?

mzbek24
mzbek24 Posts: 436 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I searched on here and Google about this already, but I couldn't quite find the answer I was looking for still.

Anywho, I have been weighing my brown rice, uncooked. I cook about 60g each time, logging it as 214 calories because that's what the database comes up with for uncooked. The packet says a serve of uncooked rice is 70g, and 251 calories.

I cook it in the steamer just with water. And it makes up quite a large quantity of rice for one person! but I've been eating all of it and it's really filling. I haven't noticed any weight increases as a result of it if I am eating more than I'm logging. I'm assuming that it would be the same amount of calories cooked as it is raw. I'm not really sure if this is true and whether I am logging it accurately. Am I actually eating extra calories?
Any insight would be much appreciated. :)

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  • mustgetmuscles1
    mustgetmuscles1 Posts: 3,346 Member
    I would go by the package but a 40 calorie difference will have almost no noticeable effect on weight loss
  • mzbek24
    mzbek24 Posts: 436 Member
    Oh, yeah I'm not concerned about that. I was wondering whether I cook 60g of uncooked rice and eat all of the cooked rice, whether I'm eating more calories than what I logged if I logged the calories it says for uncooked.
  • ButtVibes
    ButtVibes Posts: 12
    No don't worry, you're eating the same number of calories ;). The quantity simply 'changes' as the rice expands, soaking up the water - but the calories remain the same :wink:
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    yes if you're boiling it the calories will be the same raw and cooked, but the weight will change. Cooking food changes the calorie count only if calories are lost (e.g. juices dripping from meat while being grilled) or gained (e.g. cooking food in oil - it absorbs some of the oil) - boiled rice only gains water, and that has no calories.


    if you weigh it raw, use the nutritional info for raw. if you weigh it cooked, use the nutritional info for boiled rice.
  • mzbek24
    mzbek24 Posts: 436 Member
    Oh awesome. Thank you! :)
  • beautifulwarrior18
    beautifulwarrior18 Posts: 914 Member
    Can you eat too much rice? I love that stuff!

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