Cooked or raw??

Samm471
Samm471 Posts: 432 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Okay I’m sure it’s been asked a million times but... should meat be weighed raw or cooked? I weigh my chicken raw but I weighed 100grams and logged it as that in MFP. I was curious as to how much it weighed after cooked and it was 60grams!! So what is the real weight here? Am I not eating as much protein as I thought because it’s shrinking when cooked? Also my packaging doesn’t say wether the macro breakdown is cooked or raw? It just gives the calories fats protein etc not wether it’s raw or cooked values. TIA

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  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    I weigh mine cooked as that's the product I'm consuming.
  • Samm471
    Samm471 Posts: 432 Member
    Panini911 wrote: »
    i prefer raw as much as I can. as how much you cook out the water will vary the weight cooked (but not the calories).

    but at the end of the day, just ensure you select the right entry in MFP for either raw or cooked. soo 100grams raw entry. or 60grams cooked entry. macros should be proportional. Box may indicate if weight is cooked, raw or frozen.


    Okay thanks. I always make sure the macros and calories match what the label says I was just curious as to wether it should be weighed raw or cooked. It kinda freaked me out when I seen it go from 100grams to 60grams as that’s a pretty big drop and I’m kinda ocd with making sure I eat enough protein 🙈
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Samm471 wrote: »
    Panini911 wrote: »
    i prefer raw as much as I can. as how much you cook out the water will vary the weight cooked (but not the calories).

    but at the end of the day, just ensure you select the right entry in MFP for either raw or cooked. soo 100grams raw entry. or 60grams cooked entry. macros should be proportional. Box may indicate if weight is cooked, raw or frozen.


    Okay thanks. I always make sure the macros and calories match what the label says I was just curious as to wether it should be weighed raw or cooked. It kinda freaked me out when I seen it go from 100grams to 60grams as that’s a pretty big drop and I’m kinda ocd with making sure I eat enough protein 🙈

    If the entry from the MFP database doesn't say raw or cooked, you are using a user-created entry.

    Unfortunately, the "verified" green check marks in the MFP database are used for both user-created entries and admin-created entries that MFP pulled from the USDA database. To find admin entries for whole foods, I get the syntax from the USDA database and paste that into MFP.

    Note: any MFP entry that includes "USDA" was user entered.

    For packaged foods, I verify the label against what I find in MFP. (Alas, you cannot just scan with your phone and assume what you get is correct.)
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    Raw is more accurate.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    Samm471 wrote: »
    Panini911 wrote: »
    i prefer raw as much as I can. as how much you cook out the water will vary the weight cooked (but not the calories).

    but at the end of the day, just ensure you select the right entry in MFP for either raw or cooked. soo 100grams raw entry. or 60grams cooked entry. macros should be proportional. Box may indicate if weight is cooked, raw or frozen.


    Okay thanks. I always make sure the macros and calories match what the label says I was just curious as to wether it should be weighed raw or cooked. It kinda freaked me out when I seen it go from 100grams to 60grams as that’s a pretty big drop and I’m kinda ocd with making sure I eat enough protein 🙈

    Unless it specifically says otherwise, the info on the package is for the raw weight. So if you use an entry that matches the package, you need to weigh it raw.

    If you weigh it cooked, you should look for an entry that specifically says cooked (typically roasted, baked, that sort of thing) and it should NOT match the package.
  • wilson10102018
    wilson10102018 Posts: 1,306 Member
    edited July 2019
    This is real simple. If you look at the package and you are gonna eat everything in it, you can weigh it raw and use the calories per raw weight.

    However, if you are not going to eat everything in the package because you are cooking it and there will be fat rendered in the pan or skin stuck to the pan or the item is trimmed, you have to weigh it cooked. And, only weigh the part you are going to eat.

    This is not significant if you are counting calories in a shrimp because nothing much is rendered out. But if you are cooking bacon and not drinking the bacon fat left in the pan, you are counting wrong.
  • Samm471
    Samm471 Posts: 432 Member
    Okay Thanks very much guys I will stick to raw 🙂

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