Pasta?
EmmalB2015
Posts: 27 Member
Do you log pasta as its dried weight and calories, or cooked?
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Depends on when you weigh it. If dry then dry, if cooked, then find a 'cooked' entry...0
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if you look on the nutrition label on the box (of noodles) it should say whether dried or cooked. I am going to assume dry, though.0
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You should weigh it dry...0
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Dry because the water it soaks does not have calories but will weigh more. Giving you wrong data0
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Dry. You can't get an accurate calorie assumption after cooking, because, how long you cook it will determine how much water it absorbs.0
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Thank you, seemed a daft question to ask.0
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EmmalB2015 wrote: »Thank you, seemed a daft question to ask.
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As with everything, it's about picking the correct database entry and double checking your product.
Raw is going to be the most accurate. But choosing cooked is not the end of the world, if the miniscule difference in calories due to water absorption is going to make or break things then you have bigger problems. There's USDA entries for both.
Some packets I have in my cupboard state raw/as sold weights, some state cooked.
Personally I log the same 360cal for every 100g of raw pasta and get on with life.0
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