Weight_Raw vs Cooked

djl1945
djl1945 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Have been using MFP for about four months and the system is working for me as planned. However, it recently occurred to me that I may have been basing meat inputs on the wrong weight.

For instance. I weighed a chicken breast before grilling last night at 16 ounces and weighed it again after grilling and it weighed 12 ounces. So, should I base the input weight for the chicken breast on 16 ounces or 12?

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    I base my entries on the raw weight. The most important thing is making sure that your entries match how you're weighing (using raw entries for raw weight, cooked entries for cooked weight).
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    djl1945 wrote: »
    Have been using MFP for about four months and the system is working for me as planned. However, it recently occurred to me that I may have been basing meat inputs on the wrong weight.

    For instance. I weighed a chicken breast before grilling last night at 16 ounces and weighed it again after grilling and it weighed 12 ounces. So, should I base the input weight for the chicken breast on 16 ounces or 12?

    Either...just make sure if you're weighing it cooked to use a "cooked" entry from the database...if you're weighing it raw, you use the raw entry in the database.

    Raw will be more accurate as the nutritional information provided for most things is raw unless otherwise specified on the package like you see with bacon.

    The 16 ounce chicken breast (which is friggin' huge BTW) doesn't lose any calories when it cooks, it just loses water. If you entered 12 ounces but it wasn't the "cooked" entry from the database, you'd be under reporting calories.
  • HMD112
    HMD112 Posts: 31 Member
    It depends on what it is chicken I would weigh cooked but something like lentils weigh raw.

    If it loses moisture whilst cooking weigh it cooked.
    If it absorbs then weigh it raw.
    Imo
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Raw whenever possible - but whichever way just choose the proper entry from the database (cooked vs. raw based on the method you used to weigh)
  • djl1945
    djl1945 Posts: 2 Member
    Thanks. I have been doing it accurately; weighing raw and using entries for raw.
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