When it comes to figuring out nutritional values of certain foods; mainly types that have a significant difference in weight when raw and when cooked, how does one know which the nutritional value refers to? Is it accurate to weigh when raw or when cooked. Chicken for example could weigh 5.5oz raw and after its cooked weigh roughly only 3oz. Bit of a difference when trying to figure out the macros in that breast when the nutrition says per 100g.
Thanks in advance!
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03-20-2013, 03:21 PM #1Registered User
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Question regarding raw vs cooked food weight
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03-20-2013, 04:01 PM #2Registered User
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Just use the raw values. The cooked weight will vary.Originally Posted by jeremyjeremy91
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/...products/701/2
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03-20-2013, 04:01 PM #3Officially Resurrected
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Just throw it on the scale after its cooked. The weight change is typically due to evaporation of water.Originally Posted by jeremyjeremy91
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03-20-2013, 06:08 PM #4#winning
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Be consistent
I try to weight raw when possible (more accurate) but 80% of the time have to weigh cooked
Remember..Cooked calories PER OZ is more than raw calories PER OZ
The macros don't change..its not different chicken..just differnt weight means adjusting cals/gramcan't out train a bad diet
can't out diet bad training
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03-21-2013, 05:54 AM #5Registered User
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If you eat the whole pack of chicken, in say a week, then it doesn't really matter how much it weighs. What I mean is if you bought a 7lb pack of breasts and ate all of it over the next seven days then it doesn't really matter. You know you averaged 1lb a day. In the end it won't matter if you ate 1.25lbs one day and then only ate .75lbs the next day. Personally, I have found tracking what I eat by averaging it out over a week makes me feel a lot less psychotic about my foods.
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Originally Posted by deschet13
^^^This.... The other responses clearly don't understand caloric density. Lets illustrate via some simple math. If a 5oz chicken breast has 50 grams of protein (hypothetical,) and after cooking it weighs 3oz, how much protein will each oz have? 10 grams? **** no! Each ounce now has 16.6 grams of protein. Make sense?Originally Posted by chameleonism
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