Cooked or uncooked?

alex8707
alex8707 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
When recording your meats chicken, beef etc do you record the uncooked weight or the cooked weight?

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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,750 Member
    Raw
  • skymningen
    skymningen Posts: 532 Member
    At the point it is cooked, it is in many cases inseparably mixed with other ingredients, therefore it is just way easier to measure everything uncooked and then not have to think about it anymore.
  • ContraryMaryMary
    ContraryMaryMary Posts: 1,975 Member
    Raw. During cooking food loses moisture, meaning it weighs less when cooked yet has the same calorific value. For example, let's say a food item weighs 100g raw and has 100 calories. When cooked, that same item may only weigh 80 grams but still has 100 calories. If you're counting food items after cooking you could be unintentionally overeating.
  • alex8707
    alex8707 Posts: 2 Member
    Thanks. That's really a big help. I've prob been undercounting
  • skymningen
    skymningen Posts: 532 Member
    If you for some reason have to measure something cooked, there are specific database items for cooked/seared/.../prepared food. Take care to choose the appropriate one.
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