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Calories in cooked rice?

Gaygirl2120
Gaygirl2120 Posts: 541 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I keep seeing really different numbers when I try to log brown rice. I don’t know if it’s calculating it cooked or raw. But basically all I want to know is the total nutrition for half a cup of cooked brown rice. Carbs, fats, protein. Help! Lol!

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  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Have you looked at the package? It would give the calories and nutrition info for the uncooked rice. Weigh the portion before cooking and you're good to go.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,474 Member

    When I cook brown rice I get a cup of rice out of a portion of uncooked rice.

    That's about a half-portion, so use one of the "cooked" entries in the database. So about 70-100 calories.

    It's not a perfect solution, weighing it uncooked is the best way.
  • XpressMural
    XpressMural Posts: 4 Member
    Generally 100g of cooked rice is around ~110 cals. If the packaging reads that amount for the weight then that's cooked calories.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    A half cup isn’t a very exact measurement. I can cram a lot of cooked rice into a half cup. The most precise thing to do is to weigh the rice before cooking, and use a database entry for uncooked rice.
  • Hogan1956
    Hogan1956 Posts: 13 Member
    edited October 2018
    1/4 cup uncooked brown rice = 3/4 cup cooked = 150 calories, 32g carbs, 1g total fat and 3grams of protein. So for 1/2 cup cooked it would read 100 calories,21g carbs, 1g fat, and 2g protein.
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