Tracking rice - 1cup BEFORE/AFTER cooking?

The rice will never absorb the same amount of water twice, so there is no way to put the exact calotie count of cooked rice on the package. Weigh the rice dry, cook, then weigh again. Then divide the calories by the cooked weight to get cals/gram, and then you can determine the calories in any size portion.

So I want to track some rice, but 1 cup or uncooked rice turns into like 3 cups after cooking! So in my diary, would I track that as 1 or 3 cups? I've been wondering this for months!

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

1 cup of uncooked rice doesn't gain calories when cooked, just water, so just adjust the consumed amount as a percentage of the raw rice. You could divide the total uncooked caloric value to the cooked value and divide by weight or measurement, it's up to you.

50kgRussianBallerina wrote: »

Dry. That is the simple answer to your simple question. Don't let people confuse you with unnecessary information

Yes, weight is more accurate. But weighing food all the time is not a way I, at least, would like to live my whole life - and not necessary for the majority of people. The difference is not significant enough!

Track the uncooked rice. 1 cup dry usually makes about 4 cups cooked. 1 c uncooked rice is usually about 600 kcal.
But honestly? You can track it cooked, too. Once again, the different in calories is not really significant over the long run. 1 c cooked rice is usually about 150 kcal.

To each their own, but this concept seems a little bizarre to me when you're following a recipe. I can get saying you just want to toss together a salad or a stir-fry without measuring, but you're going to measure the rice anyway to get the right proportion of water to rice, aren't you? It's generally easier and more accurate and dirties fewer utensils to weigh the ingredients in your recipes than to portion them out based on volume.

I had a food scale in my kitchen for baking long before I ever started using to track and log my personal food intake. It's just more accurate. (Especially when I started making bread in a bread machine in warm weather, when I don't want to turn the oven on, and couldn't gauge whether the amount of flour was correct from the feel of the dough during the kneading process, since I wasn't doing the kneading.)

Before. Some people put more/less water. The weight/volume of that water will make a difference in the weight/volume of the cooked rice, but not the total calories/nutrition.

You can measure out how much raw rice you’re cooking then eat what you want save the left overs for the week and divide by how many days it takes to eat all the rice.

It's been over seven years, I hope they've figured out how to measure rice by now.