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Calories in Nature's Earthly Choice Easy Quinoa?

mikilipa
mikilipa Posts: 2
edited February 28 in Food and Nutrition
I bought Nature's Earthly Choice Easy Quinoa- Garden Vegetable. It says on the back that 1/4 cup dry is 150 calories. Is it the same amount of calories cooked? Sorry if this is a dumb question.

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  • tomee638
    tomee638 Posts: 64
    Dry quinoa will turn into more, but if you weight out a 1/4 cup dried and cook only that amount, you would use that number. You will end up with 1/2 up of cooked quinoa or more though.

    You can't measure out a 1/4 cup of cooked vs a 1/4 cup of dry and expect them to be the same nutritionally. Because the dry are smaller so you can fit more into a measuring cup.

    Hope that helps!
  • mikilipa
    mikilipa Posts: 2
    I didn't measure it while dry, so you're saying 1/2 of cooked would be the 150 cal serving?

    Thanks!
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    Actually, quinoa tends to get much bigger than just double in size. Typically 1/4 cup dry equals somewhere between 3/4 and 1 cup cooked. Next time, measure before you cook. And in the meantime, guesstimate...
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