Question on the weight of foods and calories

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tyresank
tyresank Posts: 174 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Sorry if this seems like a stupid questions but.....
If a package of frozen Fish for example says a 4oz serving is 230 calories, does one assume that is the fozen weight or the cooked weight. Prior to baking my fish is 2.8 or 3 oz, but after cooking it might several ounces less. So which is the calorie content that one uses?

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  • dls06
    dls06 Posts: 6,774 Member
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    Still the same amount of calories just less water. :flowerforyou:
  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 MFP Moderator
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    I will always use raw weights, because you can't be sure that your "cooked" method is the same amount of cooking. IE take a raw piece of meat, cook it blue rare.... weigh it its less than what you started with... cook it til well done... it weighs even less... but calories contained are the same, it's just moisture that cooked out.
  • cassyparker
    cassyparker Posts: 25
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    you go by the pre-cooked weight unless it says specifically that the calories are for the amount cooked :)
  • tyresank
    tyresank Posts: 174 Member
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    Thanks everyone, I thought as much but just wanted to be certain.
  • TAWoody
    TAWoody Posts: 261 Member
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    Some packages of meat will specify if their serving nutrition info is raw, pre-cooked, or cooked so maybe you'll get lucky.

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