How To Estimate Calories for Cooked Pasta

The nutrition labels on pastas are for DRY weight. But how does that translate to cooked weight?

This video shows you an easy way to figure it out.

[Niksta.n]

When the pasta absorbs water it may be higher in weight but the calories remain the same.
Example:
Dry pasta
100 grams-350 calories
Cooked pasta (with water)
350 grams-350 calores

[Shady_Talat]

This extra weight is water so the calories in a handful of raw pasta remain the same as those in the same amount after cooking as water has no calories

[hellkat]

So 1/2 cup or 85 grams of dry pasta BY WEIGHT is equal to 310 calories and assuming the pasta triples in VOLUME when cooked. So once cooked you can eat 1 and 1/2 cup of cooked pasta by VOLUME to equal 310 calories. To establish this if you want use a measuring cup that is for DRY ingredients not FLUIDS. (Not the glass measuring pyrex cups with the pour spout). Measure out cooked pasta re 1 and 1/2 cups for volume measurement and then put weighed pasta on a scale for a gram measurement. This will give you how much cooked pasta 310 calories is in grams.

[JoshuaMaxwellUSA]

Wouldn't this vary quite a bit? Depending on the type of pasta (certain flours likely absorb different amounts of water) as well as cooking time

[MichelleHarra-xdwt]

Just weigh the pasta before cooking them