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Need advice on Rotini pasta... thanks

mbmcnabbgo
mbmcnabbgo Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
In the MyFitnessPal data, is the listing for Rotini pasta at 2 oz cooked or pre-cooked?
Thanks,
MBMc

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  • ExistingFish
    ExistingFish Posts: 1,259 Member
    edited January 2019
    Dry.

    If one person cooked theirs for 9 minutes, and one for 11, they'd have different volumes of water in the finished pasta, and would weigh different. Pasta weights are dry, although some have weights for cooked too. Some I use is 2oz dry/3.5oz cooked, as an estimate. That is one brand though, I'm not sure it holds true for all pastas.
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    mbmcnabbgo wrote: »
    In the MyFitnessPal data, is the listing for Rotini pasta at 2 oz cooked or pre-cooked?
    Thanks,
    MBMc

    its dry. unless it says cooked which I had spaghetti tonight and its always dry weight
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,259 Member
    There might be different entries for that, some dry and some cooked. How are we to know what you're looking at? Look at the package and compare.
  • confidenceinrain
    confidenceinrain Posts: 104 Member
    The package will likely have the calories per serving and often calories per 100g uncooked. Weigh your uncooked pasta and you can use this information to accurately log--some database entries are different so it is good to check!
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