Rice, cooked and uncooked
cookiesmonster1972
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Found on google that the difference between rice uncooked and cooked in uncooked times 3.
So 100gr uncooked rice good for 342 kcal makes 1026 kcal when it's cooked.
Anybody recognize these calculations
So 100gr uncooked rice good for 342 kcal makes 1026 kcal when it's cooked.
Anybody recognize these calculations
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I weigh my rice according to the nutrition label, which indicates dry weight. I don't bother weighing it cooked.3
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100g of uncooked rice will have the exact same amount of calories after it's cooked, assuming you only use water. The weight after it's cooked doesn't matter because it's only weight from the water that the rice has absorbed during the cooking process. As long as you weigh out 100g of rice knowing it's 342 calories, then you don't have to weigh it after you cook it. Add any additions separately (butter, broth, veggies, etc.)4
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My 45g of raw brown rice cooks up to 120-140g of cooked rice after absorbing the water during cooking. So it does equal approximately three times the weight.
Same calories, obviously.1 -
No, rice doesn't increase in calories by cooking it. The only difference is water content.
The usual process is to cook rice in water at 2 parts water to 1 part rice, so the ending volume is 3 times whatever the "parts" are.
But if 100g uncooked rice has 342 calories, that same rice cooked (only water added) still has the 342 calories, no more.
Why not just log an MFP database entry for the amount of rice you use? It's most accurate to weigh the uncooked rice, and log that using a database entry for dry rice; but if you forget to weigh it before cooking, just weigh it cooked and use an entry for cooked rice.3 -
FYI.. water doesn't add calories..
If it calls for 100gr uncooked same rice when cooked.. it just absorbed the water..
1/2cup Rice dry = 1 cup cooked rice.. same calories
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Pretty much what Ann said . Lol
Btw.. depending on rice.. some are 1:1 ratio for cooking..
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I always weigh my rice dry. Most of the time I add it to a stew in the crockpot and let it absorb the extra liquid instead of using a thickener like flour or cornstarch. There is no way I could weigh it cooked when I do that.1
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cookiesmonster1972 wrote: »Found on google that the difference between rice uncooked and cooked in uncooked times 3.
So 100gr uncooked rice good for 342 kcal makes 1026 kcal when it's cooked.
Anybody recognize these calculations
...no.
I don't know exactly what it was that you 'found on Google', but you seem to have misunderstood it quite dramatically. If you cook 100 g uncooked rice at 342 kcal, what you will end up with is about 300 g of cooked rice at... 342 kcal. Cooked rice is heavier than uncooked, due to the added water. That's all.
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I cooked 1 cup (233g) of dry rice yesterday in 2 cups of water. The cooked rice weighed only 577g, so it's not necessarily 3 x the dry weight.1
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cookiesmonster1972 wrote: »Found on google that the difference between rice uncooked and cooked in uncooked times 3.
So 100gr uncooked rice good for 342 kcal makes 1026 kcal when it's cooked.
Anybody recognize these calculations
I don't understand this?0 -
So to be clear, cooked or uncooked the calories are the same?0
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If you cook 100g of dry rice and consume the whole thing then the calories are the same but, if you cook 100g (dry weight) and eat only a portion of the rice you'd need to weigh the cooked rice, divide that amount by the amount of calories in the dry weight, multiply by how many grams you are eating.
It's much simpler to use the recipe builder function and weigh the dry rice, record the amount of calories. Then weigh the cooked rice, enter that weight in grams as the number of servings. Weigh your portion and enter that amount in grams as the serving size.
So 1g = 1 serving, as I've done (see my screenshot above). If I eat 234g of cooked rice I log it as 234 servings.
My original point was that this "cooked rice is 3 x heavier than dry rice" is nonsense.1 -
Time stay clear of rice , lol3
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Follow the packet instructions, best bet is to weigh uncooked.3
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I'm only joking on that lol.
Plus I love rice lol0 -
I'm only joking on that lol.
Plus I love rice lol
I did hope so 😂 Seriously, if you're cooking the rice just for 1 portion then weigh and record it dry plus anything else you add to it (I used a stock cube and some spice yesterday).
If you're making more than one portion then build a recipe and let MFP figure out the calories.1 -
Great tip , thank you.0
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So to be clear, cooked or uncooked the calories are the same?
one quick thing that people are forgetting here.
1 cup of uncooked rice will absorb a lot of water during cooking, turning the volume of 1 cup into about 3-5 cups.
So, 1 cup of cooked rice (Without oil) has less grains than 1 cup of uncooked rice, making the cooked rice less caloric.
Again... I am talking VOLUME.
So... 1 cup of uncooked rice (About 200 grams) contains about 713 calories (a little more for basmatti, a little less for Sona Masoori) / divide that for your yield in cooked rice to get the accurate count.
713 cals uncooked / 3 cups cooked = 237 calories per cup
713 cals uncooked / 4 cups cooked = 178.25 calories per cup
713 cals uncooked / 5 cups cooked = 142.6 calories per cup
Just a thought.0 -
So to be clear, cooked or uncooked the calories are the same?
one quick thing that people are forgetting here.
1 cup of uncooked rice will absorb a lot of water during cooking, turning the volume of 1 cup into about 3-5 cups.
So, 1 cup of cooked rice (Without oil) has less grains than 1 cup of uncooked rice, making the cooked rice less caloric.
Again... I am talking VOLUME.
So... 1 cup of uncooked rice (About 200 grams) contains about 713 calories (a little more for basmatti, a little less for Sona Masoori) / divide that for your yield in cooked rice to get the accurate count.
713 cals uncooked / 3 cups cooked = 237 calories per cup
713 cals uncooked / 4 cups cooked = 178.25 calories per cup
713 cals uncooked / 5 cups cooked = 142.6 calories per cup
Just a thought.
Or use a food scale!4 -
I cooked 1 cup (233g) of dry rice yesterday in 2 cups of water. The cooked rice weighed only 577g, so it's not necessarily 3 x the dry weight.
Sure. Some of the water evaporates, typically. (I apologize for not pointing that out in my PP.)
The evaporation is one of the things that makes weighing it dry a better way to do it. Depending on how long you cook the rice, and with how high a heat, in what type of cooking vessel (covered/not, sealed tight/not, etc.), the amount of evaporation will be different. The implication is that therefore the calories for a given cooked weight will vary, based on how much water it contains vs. what evaporated, in addition to how much water was used in the first place.
But the water itself doesn't materially change the calories from what was in the dry rice, irrespective of how much water evaporates or doesn't. OP seems to be suggesting that cooking rice adds calories. No.
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cookiesmonster1972 wrote: »Found on google that the difference between rice uncooked and cooked in uncooked times 3.
So 100gr uncooked rice good for 342 kcal makes 1026 kcal when it's cooked.
Anybody recognize these calculations
100g of uncooked rice is going to make 342 kcal of rice regardless...it'll just weigh more after cooking since it absorbed the water...which didn't add calories.2 -
O my those little grains of rice are causing a storm lol lol0
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I cook up some rice and weigh it dry. I then divide it into portions (say about 4 or however many it makes) and put it in my recipes and have it as 'one serving' each time and the calories are already calculated for me. I dont weigh the cooked portion.0
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I cooked 1 cup (233g) of dry rice yesterday in 2 cups of water. The cooked rice weighed only 577g, so it's not necessarily 3 x the dry weight.
This is why weighing dry (or raw) vs cooked for foods in general is the better way to go about it. Various cooking methods and times will change the amount of cooked weight. So there is no way to reverse engineer dry weight from cooked weight that doesn't allow for a fair bit of margin of error.1
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