Quinoa serving size - dry or cooked?

It's dry. For example, when I cook oatmeal to my specs in an instapot 1/4 cup dry equals just over a 1/2 cup cooked.

What everyone above said. When in doubt, look at the packaging.

Hannahwalksfar wrote: »

Since water is naught calories it’s dry.

Err... no.

Water has zero calories, but it does have both weight and volume. So a 1/4 cup of quinoa could be either be dry, and therefore pure quinoa and high in calories, or it could be cooked, in which case a lot of it is water and it has far fewer calories.

For all foods like quinoa, rice and pasta that take on a lot of water when cooked, the DB is a mess of 'cooked' entries and 'dry' entries and a lot of them don't indicate which one they are. A lot of people have come unstuck that way! Though after a while you get a feel for which are likely to be which.

Hannahwalksfar wrote: »

My dr said that to me. Sorry I thought I wrote that. I asked the same thing and he told me exactly what I put. I thought I wrote “my dr said” my apologies. Having a day

Now I'm confused! Your doctor gives you advice on which MFP entries to use? And thinks that the dry and cooked entries have the same calories?!

(Also, whether 'dry' or 'cooked' is standard is something that varies by country and manufacturer. Here in the UK it's surprisingly common to get packages that only give nutritional information for cooked - something like '170g of cooked pasta' with a tiny footnote somewhere of '75g of uncooked pasta weighs approximately 170g when cooked'.)

ceiswyn wrote: »

Hannahwalksfar wrote: »

My dr said that to me. Sorry I thought I wrote that. I asked the same thing and he told me exactly what I put. I thought I wrote “my dr said” my apologies. Having a day

Now I'm confused! Your doctor gives you advice on which MFP entries to use? And thinks that the dry and cooked entries have the same calories?!

(Also, whether 'dry' or 'cooked' is standard is something that varies by country and manufacturer. Here in the UK it's surprisingly common to get packages that only give nutritional information for cooked - something like '170g of cooked pasta' with a tiny footnote somewhere of '75g of uncooked pasta weighs approximately 170g when cooked'.)

No I was just randomly chatting about rice and recording it in my diary and he said always use dry weights because water has naught calories anyway. It was just a convo and not particular medical advice

Ohhhh no worries

kiela64 wrote: »

lemurcat2 wrote: »

Unless it specifies cooked, it's dry.

Thanks! It doesn’t specify anything which is why it’s confusing.

Grains such as quinoa, rice, pasta, etc are dry unless otherwise specified.