Log weight of food raw or cooked?

miam4nia
miam4nia Posts: 137 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
When you log food, do you weigh it when it is raw or after it has been cooked?

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  • neenaj33
    neenaj33 Posts: 347 Member
    I always do mine cooked
  • withchaco
    withchaco Posts: 1,026 Member
    If the nutritional info is for RAW (usually the case), I weigh it before cooking.
  • llkilgore
    llkilgore Posts: 1,169 Member
    Usually raw if there's a choice.
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    You use the information of the nutritional info that you are going to log it with. If it says 100g raw, then it's 100g raw. If it says 100g boiled in water, it's 100g after it's been boiled in water. If it says deep fat fried...
  • cobblers88
    cobblers88 Posts: 41
    Agree with above comment. If I weigh my food raw, I log it as raw, then add anything like cooking oils. If it's boiled or steamed I add nothing as water obviously has no calories! If you're using the cooked version you need to weigh it when it's cooked most things change weight after being cooked. For example, 100g of boiled potatoes will have less cals than 100g of raw potatoes because the boiled ones now include extra water.
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    A good example is rice and oats weigh over twice as much when cooked but contain the same calories when cooked in water.

    Something fried may well weigh less than when rae, but contain more calories.

    Raw weighing is the most accurate as it limits the number of variables.
  • neenaj33
    neenaj33 Posts: 347 Member
    Learned something new today. Thanks Iron!
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