Food Diary Input - Quinoa

davidlepage925
davidlepage925 Posts: 2
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Hey Guys!
When inputting Grains and Seed in the MyFitnessPal food diary do you put in the dried pre-cooked weight or the cooked weight? Or does this even matter?!

I am preparing 50g of dry Quinoa for my lunch (to be cooked) and didn't want to mix up the calories! Obviously the 50g will expand to around 120g. Will the nutrition content in 50g UNCOOKED be the same as 120g COOKED?

Many Thanks!!

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  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    I always weigh my food the way I eat it, so I would weigh the quinoa cooked.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    The nutrition content shouldn't change much. I'd go with the uncooked weight for the quinoa unless you cook it exactly as the package states. Sometimes packages will suggest adding fat or salt, so if you don't add that exact amount, those nutrients may be off in the cooked entry.
  • AntonioP23
    AntonioP23 Posts: 80 Member
    Weigh app the raw/dry ingredients

    Easiest I log
  • davidlepage925
    davidlepage925 Posts: 2
    Thank you everyone :-) x
  • Ladiebug710
    Ladiebug710 Posts: 133 Member
    I use the uncooked. I think it is easier to measure
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Uncooked. That's what the packaging information usually is (if there is any), and it's much more reliable for something like rice or quinoa or pasta, where cooked weight will vary depending on how much water you add, how long you cook it, conditions that affect how much water it absorbs, etc.

    If you have to measure after cooking it's okay, though--just make sure you use a cooked entry.
  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Uncooked. That's what the packaging information usually is (if there is any), and it's much more reliable for something like rice or quinoa or pasta, where cooked weight will vary depending on how much water you add, how long you cook it, conditions that affect how much water it absorbs, etc.

    If you have to measure after cooking it's okay, though--just make sure you use a cooked entry.

    This makes sense - I hadn't thought about it that way.

    If you make rice or pasta for your whole family, though: Would you weigh all of it uncooked, then weigh it all cooked, then weigh your portion and enter it as .25 or whatever portion of the uncooked total pasta?

    I may be slightly overthinking it....
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