Steel Cut Oats calories -cooked or uncooked

donnasinc
donnasinc Posts: 114 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I am looking for help in recording steel cut oats as it seems there is a discrepancy. On other sites I have found that 1 cup of cooked is about 170 and here I am finding that .25 cups is 150 uncooked. Hmmm.... Seems crazy that 1 cup of steel cut oats (Blue Menu) would be 600 calories. I feel like I am just not seeing or understanding something. ;)

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Weigh your oats before cooking and your mystery will be solved.
  • avskk
    avskk Posts: 1,787 Member
    edited November 2016
    A quarter-cup of dry steel cut oats becomes almost a cup cooked. A cup of dry steel cut oats would make multiple servings. Six hundred calories is about right.

    ETA: I just went back and checked the oats I use. They're 170 calories for 44g, which is about .25 cup. When cooked, that amount is more than a cup -- it's quite a hefty serving. If I cooked a cup of dry oats it would make a quart or more of oatmeal. That'd be at least four large portions. For that much food, 600-650 calories seems pretty reasonable.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited November 2016
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    Weigh your oats before cooking and your mystery will be solved.

    This. 150-170 for .25 cup uncooked seems pretty standard, and it's a much greater volume cooked, of course.
  • donnasinc
    donnasinc Posts: 114 Member
    Thanks everyone. Over-analyzing here....and yes .25 cup of dry is 1 cup of cooked.
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