Weigh Your Food Raw or Cooked? | Which Is Most Accurate

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[mynameistitch]

Thanks man! After watching this video I understand this concept way better. For anyone confused, for ex: 4oz of chicken breast will have the same amount of protein and calories as it is cooked, it will only just weight less!

[carits]

I made an excel sheet to help break down my raw vs cooked. I definitely recommend this as it made it almost mindless for me. no crazy formulas, just basic arithmetic. this is especially helpful when cooking several dishes that call for different amounts of the same ingredient... So to break it down a bit, say I'm cooking 3 recipes. one calls for 50g of chicken and the other 2 call for 25g each. thats 100g of raw chicken i throw onto the grill. I weigh the total weight of the cooked chicken, let's use 80g cooked as an example. 80/100=0.8 so I multiply the raw weights by 0.8 and that tells me how much cooked chicken to throw into each dish... for this meal prep would've been 40g, 20g, 20g. it's definitely an extra step, but you could be cheating yourself from results by using the cooked feature on some apps. they don't take into account to what doneness you're cooking you proteins or how much water your rice/pasta is absorbing. hope this helps, it took me a little while before i figured this out

[kyleeploessl]

This was SO helpful!! I was actually SO confused about rice (until yesterday actually). I will now be more mindful about my tracking raw vs. cooked! Thank you so much!

[tylerrauwolf]

I think an easier way to do it is just weigh it raw and divide by the number of servings. I like to cook six meals at a time, so if I have 600 g of broccoli / 6 meals I know I have 100 g broccoli per meal.

I believe weighing raw is more accurate (due to variability of water evaporation or absorption), but at the end of the day it will come down to consistency! You can be certain that if you go from weighing 4 oz of cooked chicken to 3 oz of cooked chicken, you reduced your calorie intake.

[TypicallyUniqueOfficial]

In the end it doesn't matter if:

1. You're consistent in the foods you eat

2. You track the same way every time

[mattsmith]

Cool note for the sweet Potato - 1g Cooked = 2.2g raw, but also 1kg = 2.2lbs so you could use a pounds/kg calculator to work out what you need :)

[jomainasdf]

im currently studying nutrition. and they taught us to weigh food cooked all the time. even estimation. they should be done cooked.

[Confused.genius]

You can also just input the cooked version of each food in your cal counter app. I use my fitness pal for this.

[powerliminals]

So the main thing hardly anyone is saying for clarity is that measuring raw chicken breast RETAINS the same macros and is just at a smaller serving size when cooked. It's when people weigh cooked that macros can be thrown off. It would clearer if more people said this.

[Chronokatan]

I usually mealprep for 4 days. So I weight everything raw and then quarter the portions of the end products with a scale.

Or when I make a cake or something I track the recipe for ALL and then track 1/x of the raw recipe, depending on how many servings I get out of it.

[gremmie]

Thank you. Have had issues with this for awhile. Since normally i cook for more than myself. Have had to track things cooked. Nice to have a another resource on how to do this.

[katrinagelinas]

I weight it out cooked, always have. So I stay very consistent

[dilliotk]

So 4oz of chicken coming out to 120 calories is approximately equal to 3oz of chicken cooked coming to about 120 calories?

[adamniski]

This is quite an old video but I found it super helpful, I’ve been on a fitness journey for about 6 months using beach body. It’s proved super helpful in a lot of ways including eating because they send specific sized containers for each food. During this journey I found your recipes through tik tok and they have saved my sweet cravings in a great way. But as I close in on my target weight of 180 I’m now more interested in putting on the muscle and increasing strength and to do that I know that I need to start looking at my diet more closely in terms of tracking. So I thank you!

[davidsong]

So one downside of weighing chicken raw, is that chicken is often intentionally saturated with water, not necessarily its natural water weight.

I cooked some chicken yesterday and applied the raw nutrition facts to my tracker. I weighed that same chicken after applied the average cooked nutrition facts to compare them. There was a serious calorie difference, and the protein was around 24 grams less than the raw estimate.

I'm going to purchase a higher quality chicken breast pack and then see if there is as much of a discrepancy betweem raw and cooked estimates. With this cheaper stuff, no matter how i cook it, there is too much of a difference in weight for me to track confidentally.

[kellysimmonds]

I weigh my food cooked because I cook in bulk and meal prep for the entire week, so much easier for that purpose!

[jngibson]

I weigh most things cooked but usually just use listed cooked macros (that make sense) and stay consistent with it.

[lmrangeljr]

Holy shit dude!!! I love this video. I'm subscribing right now. keep up the good content.

[KasieCantor]

What if i just set my macros on Mfp 25% less overall and continue my life lol

[rik-keymusic]

I don’t know. I weighed rice before i cook.let say 100g of dry uncooked rice = 353Kcal…. I cook that amount and weigh it again after it is leaked out of excess water… now the rice weighs 300g so now 300g = 353 Kcal. So it’s 3x more heavy which means that 100g of cooked rice = 353/3= 117, 66 kcal. That’s the most accurate way to know how much calories some foods contain.