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Meat

texasredreb
texasredreb Posts: 548 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Should meats be weighed raw?

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,665 Member
    Preferably, because cooking really only cooks off water, so the more you cook it, the less it weighs, but the stuff that has calories is still there.
  • totameafox
    totameafox Posts: 630 Member
    if you look on a package, the nutrients are listed for raw. So weigh it raw.
  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,323 Member
    Yes, because different cooking methods will have different water contents in the cooked meat so always weigh it raw to be as accurate as possible
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,108 Member
    Some meat also soaks up cooking fluids. Thus yeah: raw.
  • varianval
    varianval Posts: 14 Member
    Weighing meat raw is more accurate since cooking messes with the weight but not the calories. imo
  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,323 Member
    Meat will lose around 20% of his weight when it’s cooked on average. So it cooked meat that is figured out say 200 cal by its weight will actually be around 240 calories raw.

    Much will depend on the fat content of the meat for instance, ground beef with a lot of fat will end up working out about the same because some of the fat is being burned off

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