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Pasta confuses me :-S

SunshineAndLove
SunshineAndLove Posts: 194 Member
edited October 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Are the nutritional values relating to cooked pasta or the pasta before it's cooked? Because there will be a huge difference and I just don't know what to put in my diary :frown:

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  • AlisonMacKay
    AlisonMacKay Posts: 112
    it's before cooking. About one cup cooked pasta or 140g is about 220 cals.
  • anu_6986
    anu_6986 Posts: 702 Member
    I take it is cooked pasta/rice.
  • dls06
    dls06 Posts: 6,774 Member
    When you look it up there are choices for dry and cooked. 2 oz dry is 1 cup cooked. Just make sure you weigh it out.
  • ilookthetype
    ilookthetype Posts: 3,021 Member
    Not going to be the answer you're looking for BUT I'm giving it anyway, I'm a giver, what can I say. Try making your own pasta out of veggies. Eggplant, squash, carrots, whatever. It will be less processed, have less crap in it and still be tasty. I promise. I use spaghetti squash most often. So good. And, there is no cooked vs raw question. Win.
  • Lesliecs
    Lesliecs Posts: 930 Member
    I measure out the amount prior to cooking..... say like spaghetti is 2 oz. dry = 200 calories. 2 oz. dry generally = about 1 cup cooked. (Found this info on the internet when I was cooking spaghetti the other day!)
  • SunshineAndLove
    SunshineAndLove Posts: 194 Member
    I don't know what a cup is but I weighed out 200g once it was cooked and found an entry in the diary for cooked so thanks for that.
  • karenjoy
    karenjoy Posts: 1,840 Member
    I have found a mug in my kitchen that gives me almost exactly the right portion of dried pasts quills so I just use that now, but it gives me 200gm cooked and it helps that I can just use it, as it is easy to get it wrong and over time the portion size gets bigger and bigger lol
  • MrsSWW
    MrsSWW Posts: 1,585 Member
    I am guilty!! I am one of those annoying people who couldn't figure out which pasta in the database to use, so I've done my own - Shaz pasta uncooked 100g. I weigh dry pasta and eneter it as this - and let me tell you, you don't get much for the calories!!
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    Is raw pasta really that popular? I'm going to try it out tonight, do you use sauce? I like vodka sauce, its pretty darn good.

    Even if it is cooked. why are you not just measuring the dry pasta, then cooking it? I don't think the water adds to many calories to it. Of course I make mine with salt and olive oil in the water, but I just don't count those calories.

    To whomever posted about not using pasta, and squash and eggplant. How dare you.
  • Lanfear
    Lanfear Posts: 524
    The calories on the pasta packaging will tell you, usually....

    Generally the calories per serving are for dried pasta - so just weigh it on the scales before you pop it in the water. Easy peasy!

    A serving is usually 75g of pasta per person - not 5 or 6 handfuls like I used to chuck in the pot!!!
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