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When to weigh potatoes?

moiremusic
moiremusic Posts: 6 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
If I take a 500 gram raw sweet potato and microwave it for 10 minutes, it comes out weighing 400 grams. Plugging that into MyFitnessPal, that's a difference of over 85 calories. The microwave gets pretty steamy so I'm assuming it's all water that's being lost, but which weight am I supposed to count?

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  • greej
    greej Posts: 37 Member
    500 g if you search for "raw sweet potato", or 400 g if you search for "steamed sweet potato".
  • DaddieCat
    DaddieCat Posts: 3,643 Member
    The part of the potato that left was the non-caloric water due to microwaving. It did not lose any calories, just water.

    Log the raw weight as it will be the most accurate measure that you can get. Cooking things doesn't change their caloric density unless you add or subtract from them, cook in oil, etc.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Use the USDA entry that matches its cooked or uncooked state.
  • moiremusic
    moiremusic Posts: 6 Member
    greej wrote: »
    500 g if you search for "raw sweet potato", or 400 g if you search for "steamed sweet potato".

    I didn't steam the potato.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Log the raw weight - be sure to choose an entry for raw sweet potato.
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