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Measuring canned chick peas

NJCJF
NJCJF Posts: 134 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I eat canned chick peas often and have a questions regarding logging them. There are 3.5 servings in a can. A serving is 1/2 cup or 130 grams. When I use my scale and weigh them 130 grams is way more than a half cup. I've been using a measuring cup to measure them even though I know weighing is more accurate. This seems to be the case with most foods... except for chick peas.

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  • lx1x
    lx1x Posts: 38,332 Member
    Weigh is more accurate than volume.
  • NJCJF
    NJCJF Posts: 134 Member
    lx1x wrote: »
    Weigh is more accurate than volume.

    I know but if I weigh them, 130 grams is like almost the whole can
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,476 Member
    Then there's something wrong with your scale.

    I cook my own chickpeas from dried, but I know that a cooked portion is in fact about a half cup and about 125g.
  • NJCJF
    NJCJF Posts: 134 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
    Then there's something wrong with your scale.

    I cook my own chickpeas from dried, but I know that a cooked portion is in fact about a half cup and about 125g.

    It's only with canned beans not with anything else.
  • Luke_rabbit
    Luke_rabbit Posts: 1,031 Member
    Does the weight include the liquid? It usually does for canned beans. I weigh my entire amount of rinsed beans and then divide by servings. Watch for the "about" 3.5 servings. Do the math based on the actual number of servings.
  • NJCJF
    NJCJF Posts: 134 Member
    bold_rabbit wrote: »
    Does the weight include the liquid? It usually does for canned beans. I weigh my entire amount of rinsed beans and then divide by servings. Watch for the "about" 3.5 servings. Do the math based on the actual number of servings.

    That’s what I do thanks
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    The weight includes the liquid, unfortunately. I find a USDA type entry for cooked chickpeas (or any other beans) and weigh the drained beans. It's really hard to accurately use the info on the can due to the water
  • PrismaticPhoenix
    PrismaticPhoenix Posts: 65 Member
    kimny72 wrote: »
    The weight includes the liquid, unfortunately. I find a USDA type entry for cooked chickpeas (or any other beans) and weigh the drained beans. It's really hard to accurately use the info on the can due to the water
    Is this what's going on?! I've started cooking my own chickpeas but recipes always assume that I'm using a certain number of cans of chickpeas and oof it messes everything up.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,476 Member
    edited February 2020
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  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    PrismaticPhoenix wrote: »
    kimny72 wrote: »
    The weight includes the liquid, unfortunately. I find a USDA type entry for cooked chickpeas (or any other beans) and weigh the drained beans. It's really hard to accurately use the info on the can due to the water
    Is this what's going on?! I've started cooking my own chickpeas but recipes always assume that I'm using a certain number of cans of chickpeas and oof it messes everything up.

    My assumption is that unless the weight specifies "drained" then it includes the liquid. There could be national differences too, I'm in the US for what it's worth.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,698 Member
    What I do: Drain and rinse the canned chickpeas (assuming you're going to use the peas without the liquid). Weigh them, and log as "Chickpeas (garbanzo beans, bengal gram), mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt", using the drop down to select the 100g quantity (instead of the 1 cup default serving). (The "with salt" version, for whatever reason, doesn't have a grams option). So, 163g of chickpeas (say) gets logged as 1.63 servings of 100g. Yes, sodium will be under-recorded. That doesn't matter to me; if it does to you, this entry won't work.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    edited February 2020
    I use "Chickpeas (garbanzo beans, bengal gram), mature seeds, canned, drained solids" and the weight.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,138 Member
    kimny72 wrote: »
    The weight includes the liquid, unfortunately. I find a USDA type entry for cooked chickpeas (or any other beans) and weigh the drained beans. It's really hard to accurately use the info on the can due to the water

    This is what I do as well.
    PrismaticPhoenix wrote: »
    kimny72 wrote: »
    The weight includes the liquid, unfortunately. I find a USDA type entry for cooked chickpeas (or any other beans) and weigh the drained beans. It's really hard to accurately use the info on the can due to the water
    Is this what's going on?! I've started cooking my own chickpeas but recipes always assume that I'm using a certain number of cans of chickpeas and oof it messes everything up.

    If I were using chickpeas I cooked myself for recipe that called for canned beans, I would just use an amount of cooked beans that are roughly equal in calories to the amount of beans in the can. (I think that runs about 400 kcal in a can that purports to have about 3.5 servings, so about 250 g of cooked, drained chickpeas.)
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