Baked potato calories raw or cooked?

phillips13214
phillips13214 Posts: 3 Member
edited November 21 in Food and Nutrition
When having a baked potato do you put the raw weight in for the calorie count or the baked weight? Can't seem to find anything online to explain it. Thanks.

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  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    edited August 2017
    I use the raw weight. The cooked weight can be variable depending on cooking time.

    Edit: Just make sure to use the appropriate data base entry. It says something like potatoes, raw, flesh and skin.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    Always do raw and make sure you use a database entry that specifies raw. It is the most accurate because different cooking methods will change the moisture content thus changing the weight. There is no way to know how the changes affect calories.

    I assume you eat the skin also.
  • LadyLeaAZ
    LadyLeaAZ Posts: 24 Member
    i found an entry for baked potato plain. I am assuming from the total in that consideration its already cooked, method "baked"
  • ktekc
    ktekc Posts: 879 Member
    If its a single potato for me i weigh and logged raw weight. . If its a meal for me and my family i dont bother trying to keep track of "my" potato and weigh cooked and log cooked. dont forget to log any butter or anything you put on. . mmm sour cream and hot sauce.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Use the entry that matches what state you weighed it in.
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