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Measuring rice

passmore_001
passmore_001 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi, I weight before and after cooking 100g uncooked/ 200g cooked of brown rice every morning to have for my dinner and was wondering what weight I was meant to put in my diary cuz it doesn't specify. Could anyone help please?

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Generally go with the uncooked weight unless it says cooked
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,169 Member
    Uncooked unless it specifies otherwise on the nutrition label (which is unlikely).
  • rianneonamission
    rianneonamission Posts: 854 Member
    Have a look at the packet where the nutritional info is displayed. Normally it will say something along the lines of *60gr of uncooked rice equals approx. 180gr of cooked rice..
  • lgill1127
    lgill1127 Posts: 47 Member
    edited May 2017
    If I'm making a single-portion I'll do uncooked (in grams) and make sure my diary entry accurately reflects that.

    When I'm making dinner for two it's not worth it to make two separate pots of rice (my bf usually has a larger portion than me, or I cook extra for leftovers) so I will log it as cooked (in grams using my food scale) and ensure my diary entry accurately reflects that as well.
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    Most accurate is to use an uncooked entry and enter the uncooked weight. Also account for anything you add to the rice that has calories, such as cooking oil.

    If you use a cooked entry and enter raw weight (or the opposite) your log will not be accurate. Using cooked entries can also be awkward because you may cook more or less moisture out of your rice than someone else, and that would alter the weight but not the calories.
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    If I'm making more than I intend to eat: I'll weigh the dry and again weigh the cooked. And then enter based on a ratio of what I consume. Such as if I cook a total of 200g dry, and the finished product weighs 600g: I then weigh what goes on my plate. If it is 150g cooked, I know I'm eating 1/4 of the original (or 150/600) so I log 1/4 of the 200g, or 50g.
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  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    i eat so little cooked pasta that i find the cooked entry and use that
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