Rice calories

pwall921
pwall921 Posts: 19 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Why am I having trouble getting their correct information on something seemingly so simple as white rice? Seems to be many entries for example one cup of white rice steamed comes in anywhere from 150 cal to 300! What a my doing wrong?

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  • successgal1
    successgal1 Posts: 996 Member
    I would look for the exact brand.
  • Tblackdogs
    Tblackdogs Posts: 325 Member
    Cooked vs. un cooked.
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    pwall921 wrote: »
    Why am I having trouble getting their correct information on something seemingly so simple as white rice? Seems to be many entries for example one cup of white rice steamed comes in anywhere from 150 cal to 300! What a my doing wrong?

    Different cooking preparations result in different water weights if you're using the cooked weight.
    It is considered most accurate to take the dry weight nutrition of what you're cooking, weigh it out dry, cook it, weigh it out wet, and use those numbers to scale it. So if it was 5 servings of 100 grams dry (total weight 500 grams), and you cook it, you still have 5 servings, so that if the total weight is now 1000 grams, each serving is now (1000/5) = 200 grams each.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    Enter it yourself. Add some nonsense word to your entry titles (like "neisop") to make them easy to search and don't allow others to see it, so they can't change it.

    Making your own entries will save you time in the long run. :)
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    Use modifiers to narrow your search to get Verified items:

    Brown or white
    Long-grain, medium-grain, or short-grain
    cooked or raw

    Search Examples:
    rice white long-grain cooked
    rice brown medium-grain raw
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Weigh it dry. For what it's worth, I found the usda data for white cooked rice to underestimate calories by 25%.
  • pwall921
    pwall921 Posts: 19 Member
    Thanks all
  • Michael190lbs
    Michael190lbs Posts: 1,510 Member
    I don't get it??? If the box says dry or uncooked that is what it is if you cook it the added weight is just no calorie water right?
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Michael190lbs wrote: »
    I don't get it??? If the box says dry or uncooked that is what it is if you cook it the added weight is just no calorie water right?

    Yeah.
  • unrelentingminx
    unrelentingminx Posts: 231 Member
    Michael190lbs wrote: »
    I don't get it??? If the box says dry or uncooked that is what it is if you cook it the added weight is just no calorie water right?

    A lot of nutritional information is given for the cooked rice which isn't that helpful when you are trying to weigh out dry rice. Because rice swells so much 100g dry does not have the same nutritional content as 100g cooked rice. Eg. For the brand I get, about 50g uncooked weighs about 120 g cooked and is about 170 calories.

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