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dry weight or cooked

eddieoliver3625
eddieoliver3625 Posts: 7 Member
edited February 26 in Food and Nutrition
Hi quick question

When working out portion size and calories do you calculate the calories based on the cooked weight or the dry. For example, 75g of uncooked rice or pasta is a lot smaller and weighs less than that same amount cooked.

At the moment I'm measuring my portion sizes and calorie using cooked weights and trust me 75g of cooked rice or pasta is small.

T:drinker: hanks

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  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    For pasta and rice always measure pre-cooked / dry.

    Pre-cooked for almost everything else as well.

    There might be one or two exceptions but I cannot think of them right now.
  • elizabethportman
    elizabethportman Posts: 11
    Dry weight is smart choice and its probably the most usual way of measuring foods.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Dry weight.
  • martyqueen52
    martyqueen52 Posts: 1,120 Member
    Meat, weigh cooked.

    Frozen meat will always contain water / ice therefore distorting the true weight of the source.
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