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

[@mynameistitch3583]

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!

[@ryanvernon4731]

THANK YOU! This makes sense to me. I don't care about the total weight, I just wanted to know if the macros changed because of it. YOu answered that!

[@angeegee8401]

Dude! Lol I was still confused, until I read you comment. All the math he is doing got me lost lol

[@liaaa7015]

Fat2FitGabby Yes exactly.

[@tajsek009]

@@XXBattyBXX i believe that it’s the fluids that go out of the chicken not the caloric nutrients

[@tajsek009]

@@XXBattyBXX exactly thats why I believe that all labels on the back on the products (or mostly all) have the raw ingridient nutritional value. I mean why would they have the caloric nutrients for the cooked version if they sell the product raw.

[@dilliot2k]

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

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

That’s correct!

[@gabrielrios9369]

@@FlexibleDietingLifestyle is there like a ratio to use bc what if you have 5oz cooked? what would be the raw measurements?

[@Makeupaddict026]

@@gabrielrios9369 yes so if you’re doing raw to cooked do raw weight x.75 if you’re doing cooked to raw weight do cooked weight divided by .75

[@gabrielrios9369]

@@Makeupaddict026 ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@BenRangel]

@@gabrielrios9369 dude... basic ratio math

[@car1it0s]

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

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

That's dope! I personally am not an excel wizard so that sounds daunting to me lol. But sounds like you are, and its working perfectly for you 🙌

[@oliviabackman9163]

dude can u please send this to me LOL

[@anelsymartinez1975]

please send this !!

[@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

[@lamsan3100]

Thanks I was really confused on it and it was getting a bit complicated for me so now I decided just to measure raw and when its cooked I just eat it

[@elephantsong7782]

But if im trying to maintain a certain protein requirement,which measurement should I use?

[@mattduncan5500]

well i suppose it does matter a little , if you trying to hit a certains specifif target. and you want to be accurate so your missing it. then this would be helpful and make a difference .... especially like things like rice. imagine if someone was weighing after. they would be tracking double the macros to what they actually consumed

[@TypicallyUniqueOfficial]

@@mattduncan5500 if you're cooking the rice the exact same way every time it doesn't matter. Regardless of your goals, you could adjust easily. If you're not losing weight, then eat less of the rice. If you're not gaining weight then eat more of it. It's very simple. When you get neurotic about it that doesn't help progress in any way.

[@mattduncan5500]

@@TypicallyUniqueOfficial i see your point . if your tracking the same . you would be applying the same maths . even if was different to someone elses maths/count etc

[@amysurratt8440]

So, this helped to figure out the ratio of cooked to raw.. but which one should we be tracking? Especially for meats, since we eat them after they're cooked, we should track the cooked weight right?

[@katrinagelinas4869]

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

[@karlamartinezleonv.1206]

But, is there is a huge difference in calories, cause i always measure my proteins cooked and thoughted i was eating the amount of calories the package describes.

[@adrianmacias384]

Consistency overcomes this as you will eventually see what works with your body and adjust accordingly.

[@dannybautista8817]

Coming from someone who competes. Ima take your word for it.

[@504CorvetteGuy]

Your underreporting your calories by 30% weighing food cooked

[@3xrstudio]

Agree. You are eating it cooked. thats what going inside you. weight that exits during cooking, you are not. Weighing it raw makes no sense to me.

[@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.

[@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!

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Soo happy it helped Kylee! Thanks for taking the time to watch it and letting me know it helped!

[@taowaycamino4891]

Just weight the food the way you eat it. If you eat raw then weight the raw food and after you convert the grams into calories then those are the calories you will be eating. If you eat your food cooked then weight your food after is cooked and the resulting calories when you do the math will be the amount of calories you will be eating. I have an exception to that rule with rice and pasta(at least). I prefer to weight the rice and pasta before is cooked since when cooked the only difference would be water weight, and water has no calories. So I weight the rice and pasta when is raw so I can eat more of them when cooked.

[@XxGhost916xX]

@@FlexibleDietingLifestyle where did you get your Tom and jerry shirt from?

[@mattduncan5500]

@@taowaycamino4891 can yuo check a quiestion i just left up the top. thought i have a very interseting point. would like to get your opinion on it.

[@taowaycamino4891]

@@mattduncan5500 I cannot find the question you are talking about.

[@tylerrauwolf4691]

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.

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Like you said at the end, whatever you can do to create consistency 🙌

[@Daduu]

U said everything right except for “weighing *everything* raw is accurate” is kinda sorta accurate, kinda sorta. When weighing raw beans/rice/pasta/broccoli/ect yes it’s better because it doesn’t have any water weight. On the contrary when you weigh meats/fish/chicken raw it’s been frozen hence it has absorbed all of that water making it heavier. Or am I missing something? I would appreciate any variables I might have glanced over.

[@TheFitChemist]

@@Daduu I could be wrong but I don't think freezing meats make the meat weigh heavier. If it does though, you could either weigh it before freezing or let it thaw out and weigh it raw again. Whatever you do, it's most important you're consistent with the method!

[@Daduu]

@@TheFitChemist but why is it that the raw meat/fish/chicken loses weight when cooked? Isn’t it because the molecules get tight and squeeze all that extra water out? Leaving just the source? Or is it other factors that play into that? And if you want to over complicate things I believe a small % of protein/carbs/fats/calories gets evaporated with the water too. Butttt ima weigh my food raw and cooked and end up going to fooddata central to get a rough estimate rough and cooked.

[@TheFitChemist]

@@Daduu heat causes the water to evaporate

[@gremmie62]

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.

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Soo happy it helped 🙏 what are the most common foods you cook that you have to use this conversion for?

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Soo happy it helped 🙏 what are the most common foods you cook that you have to use this conversion for?

[@gremmie62]

@@FlexibleDietingLifestyle I plan on verifying the my fitness pal entries I've been using. Mostly chicken breast, ( sautéed in a skillet), sweet potatoes, hamburger for tacos, pork tenderloin.

[@KasieCantor]

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

[@SOULJALOS]

This is exactly what I was looking for! To me, weighing and portioning raw meat is so time-consuming and tedious. I would much rather cook my food all at once and then portion it out later. So based on your example, if my preferred serving size of raw meat is 4 ounces, I would have to weigh out 4 ounces of cooked ground beef plus 25% of that, which is 1 oz and that would equal 4 oz of raw meat?

[@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.

[@Carpenters_Canvas]

I’m curious when a site says it’s 150 calories per 4 oz of chicken , do they mean cooked or not ?

[@jmorgan3977]

That's what I'm trying to figure out.

[@Carpenters_Canvas]

@@jmorgan3977 so I did some looking into it and it is measuring the meat when raw .

[@lifes_a_journey]

I'm so confused... The macros are soo different for the cooked vs uncooked yams. Same amount obviously different weights.. After cooking. Soo which calories are accurate and should I be tracking in my fitness pal.?

[@shanehubbardfit]

This is total splitting hairs. It’s not this serious lol just measure your food cooked

[@noblesse_phantasma1834]

Shane Hubbard Fit yeah since that’snwhat you’re gonna eat anyway

[@Dynamix15]

Raw is better because the water content is more consistent when raw. When you cook food, depending on how long, the water content will change. Also not to mention food can shrink more when microwaved.

[@stellagyan541]

@@Dynamix15 it's not possible to weigh raw food when you're cooking for a large group of people vs cooking for one person

[@TypicallyUniqueOfficial]

Raw. The calories for food is tested in a raw state in the lab. The machine then burns the food and uses a bunch of different methods to ascertain the different macros. Always always track raw because that's how scientists measure the calories. Cooked weight can vary greatly depending on how long you cook it for.

[@davidsong5315]

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.

[@jomainasdf1433]

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

[@adamniski8526]

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!

[@mattsmith3049]

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 :)

[@matrixpowerdeluxe8910]

What about micronutrients, lets say pottasium in 4oz chicken raw, and pottasium in the same chicken when baked (4 oz baked chicken los weight)!? What to do, to measure baked chicken like a 4 oz, or when is lost weight? I must to know because of pottasium 😃

[@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.

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

You've got it down my friend!

[@Chronokatan]

@@FlexibleDietingLifestyle Thanks man :P following you and John and some others for a long time now. Lost 260lbs in the last 3 years.

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Dude that’s insane 🙌 you should be soo damn proud of yourself

[@daniellesida344]

So do calories and protien stay the same as raw when they are cooked?

[@anniebraxton7472]

How can you be the most accurate when cooking in bulk? Should I make a new recipe and use the raw weight then weigh again cooked and put that into the servings?

[@mattduncan5500]

i been reading up more on this. from what i seen the marcos dont change even if the weight changes. and the macros are the only thing actually important , right? your calories and protien . so if thats right, weigh uncooked. macros will stay pretty much same anyway . and you dont have to do any reverse maths

[@Pieter_Lion]

You didnt really explain what i wanted to hear. Is the calorie amount the same when cooked vs raw? Like 100g of chicken breast cooked vs raw, does it have the same amount of calories?

[@jngibson24]

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

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Well that depends on where you get the cooked chicken info from. But if it’s working for you, then keep with it 🙌

[@kellysimmonds5328]

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

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

That's perfectly fine!

[@ish2593]

Kelly Simmonds but what if you end up eating the food in sauce? Like a spaghetti and meatballs

[@elephantsong7782]

I was wondering what I should type in google to get this answer and was gonna type 'should I weigh chicken breast raw or cooked to get correct protein requirement' but all I needed to do was type 'should I weigh chicken' and there were so many suggestions already.Guess im not the only one confused about this raw vs cooked issue xD

[@busywomenmomprojectfitness7976]

I'm really sure , but I believe when we want to eat example rice we weigh raw because when we boil they weight will up But meat, chicken etc.. we must weigh after cooking because the weight will be down ... ?!!!! Not sure I'm also a little confused

[@TheRealMime-_-]

so if i eat chicken breast i weight it raw and that's what i put in myfitnesspal not the cooked weight ???

[@aleksminkov6003]

All these videos just compare them dont tell u which is right

[@udcentrepreneur]

The question for me still the same: Just as an example, if I want to eat 250Gr of chicken, should I take in consideration the weight of the row or the cooked chicken? The same for the rice, if I want to eat 250Gr of rice should I take in consideration the weight of the row or the cooked rice? that is my real confusion. thanks in advance for clarifying this.

[@treyurquhart4508]

My question is if you weigh a steak raw it's going to weigh more then after you cook it. Why do you not count the weight after it's cooked?

[@usamaayazkhan8273]

Dear i want to know if any nutritional changes happens when we cooked chciken/beef/ fish ? E.g. change in protein value ? 250 gram uncooked than we cooked it reduce its gram does it also reduced protien ?

[@fenderman9178]

You can change its nutritional value (micronutrients) but it mainly applies to veggies. Protein becomes denatured when you cook it, but the amount of protein remains the same.

[@rik-keymusic160]

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.

[@thepurplebox380]

Translating cooked to raw has always been an issue when I try to estimate macros for eating out and that leads to me undereating. I once estimated a bagel with cream cheese as 980 calories.

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Yeah and underestimating is now what you need to be doing my friend! Gotta get you to 155lb 💪🏻

[@thepurplebox380]

@@FlexibleDietingLifestyle I'm coming for those gains! #FDU

[@JLaw2756]

What about frozen chicken that says can be cooked from frozen

[@ronsketocafe]

Thanks for the video. I always count my food cooked I don't eat raw meat. I been doing Keto for 149 weeks and have taken off 145 pounds!

[@ladywolverine3315]

What about weighing frozen shrimp? The macros/ servicing size is that for the shrimp in frozen form or is that weight after you defrost it?

[@BenRangel]

It would make no sense to measure frozen weight as that can contain huge blocks of ice so assume it's defrosted. If it's not - the measurement is garbage and useless.

[@nadafshoaib]

But what should we consider for measuring calories? Cooked o non cooked?

[@thegreatwal1224]

But wait, doesn’t raw weight fail to factor out fat that’s cooked out from the meat? This is especially important in fatty cuts of meat or like 80/20 ground beef. A lot of the fat is lost in the cooking process depending on how you do it

[@LetoAtreides82]

That would be to your benefit if you're trying to lose weight. If you think you're eating 300 calories of chicken but in fact you ate only 250 calories of chicken due to your cooking method you will lose weight slightly faster.

[@densedecisions4568]

I like to weigh it raw, and get the average multiplier for that round of prep, then weigh it cooked as I take it. I tend to get obsessive with precision, so wait until a period of time (like a rest day after a training a couple times. Once a week, give or take, but really whenever I can.) has passed to apply the multiplier to every instance in one go.

[@hajarhajar8906]

Okay what about stews?????? Or oven baked casseroles with different ingredients ???? How do you measure that?

[@nickhinds7775]

Personally I weigh out carbs like oats and sweet potatoes daily, but I will typically eyeball my chicken breast and protein powder. I do however weigh out fattier proteins like salmon and beef.

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Finding what works for you 🙌

[@jaredvalade7502]

Been experimenting with finding the factor to multiply by for a lot of my foods so that when I go back to school, it’s easier to know what I’m actually having. Thanks for all your info!!

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Happy it helped dude man!

[@micaelabucci326]

I weight it all raw, usually my meats and pastas and everything else that comes raw :) Lots of labels say (raw) on them. I always wondered how much the nutritional value changes after cooking the foods though. I think some fiber gets taken away from noodles when they're boiled but I don't know how much exactly..

[@abbykirchoff20]

awesome video. i think most of the fitness people i follow on here say "it doesn't matter if you weigh raw or cooked as long as you stay consistent" so i have always weighed my meat cooked... guess i have been eating WAY too much protein. haha

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Thanks Abby! And lol you've been most definitely been getting some extra proteins in! 😭

[@cbc899]

With chicken, the majority of the weight being lost is through water is it not? Similar with steak etc? So putting in 25% less for calories and macros etc wouldn't be too accurate?

[@eileenbengelsdorf6010]

I gather it's better to do rice once its cooked. Great video!

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Thanks Eileen!

[@ReaIHitman]

so heres the question should u follow the raw or cooked instead

[@EvoTheToxicMonster]

Im more intrested in the calorie and macronutrient values rather than weight difference.

[@kotence777]

How about chicken legs? Do you take out the weight of bones? We don't eat bones so I am confused.

[@cttaylor01]

I grilled 1.5 pounds of chicken tenderloins down to .95 pounds! Grilling is so overrated for this reason, it's a very drying method of cooking. 60% weight loss! My question is, wouldn't that change the callories? The moisture loss is some fat, maybe a lot fat?

[@taowaycamino4891]

Just weight the food the way you eat it. If you eat raw then weight the raw food and after you convert the grams into calories then those are the calories you will be eating. If you eat your food cooked then weight your food after is cooked and the resulting calories when you do the math will be the amount of calories you will be eating.

[@supportstaff1829]

That's a much better way of explaining it.

[@taowaycamino4891]

@@supportstaff1829 I have an exception to that rule with rice and pasta(at least). I prefer to weight the rice and pasta before is cooked since when cooked the only difference would be water weight, and water has no calories. So I weight the rice and pasta when is raw so I can eat more of them when cooked.

[@sophimilan]

I usually weigh my meat cooked. I hate handling raw meat w my kids always running into the kitchen and them needing me to help them randomly. Silly, I know.

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Not silly at all! #momlife 🙂

[@Greg-ky3ji]

When you have calorie and macro targets how do you know how much you have consumed? Do you work it out by the raw weight or the cooked weight?

[@joshualuna7112]

So 4 oz raw and 3 oz cooked have the same calorie count?

[@harrisonmckenzie4081]

Yes. It just loses water. The amount of meat stays the same.

[@joshualuna7112]

@@harrisonmckenzie4081 so the macros are based on uncooked ?

[@harrisonmckenzie4081]

@@joshualuna7112 thats what it seems like. Thats how its packed so it makes sense and everything else I've been researching says so.

[@joshualuna7112]

@@harrisonmckenzie4081 thanks bro

[@donspradley6912]

Basically 16oz of lean raw meat is 12oz cooked. You should do a test on 3-4 different brands from different sources of say, a 90/10 ground beef. Weigh it before and after it has been cooked and see the difference. I’ve seen about a 1 oz difference before witch may suggest added liquids 🤷🏽‍♂️. Let me know what you think! 💪🏽

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

Yes basically! And honestly I just wanted to outline the process for anyone to do it with any food 👐

[@DeePat-gd5so]

I was debating with escali primo and oxo. Escali more accurate but oxo bigger easier to see the weights with pull out feature. I went with more accurate scale but if it gets super annoying ill buy the oxo

[@JVCKPOT]

150g of cooked gives u more calories and protein etc than raw so always cook a ton of chicken then weigh it after

[@jtl00111]

But if you look at a calorie tracker, calorically 440g potato raw does not equal 200g cooked?

[@analobo5658]

Very well explanation. Do you mind sharing the link where you got the scale please? Thank you!

[@crystallawrance9008]

I'm still kinda confused...when actually entering into MFP😬. Would you create an entry for everytime you batch cook. And create a serving size. I hope that makes sense.

[@samdajellybeenie14]

crystal Lawrance well the macros for chicken breast will always be the same. 3oz of cooked breast is always 120 calories. So no, you could just use the same entry for each time you cook, just make sure you weigh out the right amount when you eat it and you’ll be fine. At least that’s what I do...

[@rickmorgan8895]

So on the package if it said 4 Oz of chicken is 120 cals is that 4 Oz raw or 4oz cooked ? Help me with that

[@TJ-cf7ro]

Good Afternoon from Australia, could I please provide you with my lunch details today to get your opinion. Im 183cm. 99kg with fat around the mid section and a long term lifter. Goal = to loose 5kg. 25% body fat and looking at a 2100 deficit with my maitnence around 2600. Here are the details of my lunch everything was measured on a food scale. 1. Bread brown x 2= 46gr 2.White ricke cooked =62gr 3. cucumber = 35gr which was 4 small slices 5. Corn kennels = 33gr. total after inputting on my app was 293 calories. Whats your honest opinion abot this lunch ? Thanks and I hope to hear from you. Regards Tim

[@bonitagirlyy]

Why is the raw weight better than the cooked weight for tracking?

[@FlexibleDietingLifestyle]

It's just the most accurate. Wouldn't say it's the best. It's just cooking methods will make the cooked weight vary

[@JoseJOnline]

I’ve been counting calories, not macros and I’ve weighing all of my food raw and just go based on that. So if I’m eating chicken I’ll weigh it at 300 grams raw, put it into my app and cook it. It always didn’t seem right doing it cooked knowing the weight would change.

[@kerrykeaton4475]

Hey Vic, I have a question. Let’s say I need 43 grams of protein and I know this single chicken breast that weighs 174g I have in the freezer will take care of that. Now, I take it out, throw it on a skillet, wait till’ it’s cooked then weigh it …. It tells me that it weighs 84 grams now ….. here’s the question now! Is that cooked chicken breast that now weighs less still has the same macros of 43 grams of protein as the 174g chicken breast frozen? 👀👀👀👀👀👀 HELP! 😂

[@JoseJOnline]

@@kerrykeaton4475 protein is lost during the cooking process but it shouldn’t be by too much unless you’re over cooking your chicken

[@itube757]

dont understand! if the calories are measured by the amounts of gram i EAT, then why should i care how much is the weight when raw? last time i checked i only eat cooked food! PLEASE EXPLAIN

[@rossshutak9378]

But with ground beef I use 80/20 I lose a ton of fat when I cook it. Does that mean I'm losing fat for my macro?? I'm struggling to get enough fat already on my current cut

[@Czarhi]

But why cooked and raw breast have different calories and protien in apps?

[@Carpenters_Canvas]

I don’t think I have “ struggled with it “ but I like to do things the way I know is more accurate I know for sure it is supposed to have an internal temp of 165 , it’s cooked through and moist

[@t.guanwen5956]

So um,, is weighing cooked chicken or raw chicken breast better?

[@mendelrabin]

what was the seasoning for the chicken breast that stuff looks good

[@unileverotp8451]

most worth watching video..........always confused about protein in chicken breast.....cooked and uncooked....blaaaa...blaaaaaa.....super video bro...keep rocking

[@hannahsmith5947]

So on my fitness pal, should I put in the cooler or uncooked weight?

[@BrandonGalang]

Damn what is that brand of the food scale? It detaches itself which is cool

[@darknotez7170]

Can the math you did for the potatoes be applied to meats and carbs like rice and quinoa ?

[@tadijajokic]

Can someone tell me how much weight changes when I boil makaroni, and for example when I use 100g of raw makaroni how many should I get when its done cooking?

[@Daduu]

U said everything right except for “weighing *everything* raw is accurate” is kinda sorta accurate, kinda sorta. When weighing raw beans/rice/pasta/broccoli/ect yes it’s better because it doesn’t have any water weight. On the contrary when you weigh meats/fish/chicken raw it’s been frozen hence it has absorbed all of that water making it heavier. Or am I missing something? I would appreciate any variables I might have glanced over.

[@mattduncan5500]

here's a concernor though here was ..... if you lets say gain 50% of weight cooking rice, you dont gain 50% of macros .... they stay the same. but there is just more weight/water now. So this is flipped and you lose 50% cooking is that the same ....or diff. do you really lose 50% of your macros , or would they still be there, but now at a lower weight ....

[@Daduu]

@@mattduncan5500 thank you I got it now. I was confused because I thought some people weighed it frozen rather than raw lol

[@_melaniesantos]

Okay!! Let's see if I get this, I weigh raw chicken (4 oz). I log that weight in my fitness tracker but when my chicken is cooked I will weight and eat 3oz because cooked chicken gets about extra 5grams of protein cook...yes???? So technically i balance it on my own yes??

[@aks6812]

My question is, if i have 500g of raw beef and the 500g beef has 80g of protein, once i cook the beef it gets to around 300g , so does it still have 80g protein? Like whatever was the protein in the food when it raw it stays the same no matter the weight of the food after being cooked? Or it loses protein too?

[@stephanieportillo6002]

In my fitness pal do i put the raw weight or the cooked weight?

[@syshin05]

Should you be weighing your food in grams on the macros scale when meal prepping? if I was to eat 162g for the day and that was sectioned out for 3 meals (54g/meal) would I be weighing the cooked potatoes at 54g raw or cooked potato at 54g.

[@montezsoliz]

So if I'm getting this right: If I have 4oz of raw chicken (and that's how much I want), cook it and get 3 oz do I need to add an extra ounce to make up for the ounce lost or is it still 4 oz?

[@itamarflores9238]

Yes

[@dimitriostsakiridis4449]

still 4 oz

[@mohammedadel4402]

So 500G of raw skinless boneless chicken breast is how many grams of protein ?

[@IronLord712]

Thanks bro, for being telling in the beginning that raw weighing is better than cooked. I been struggling with this s question for quite few days.

[@joespadaro7951]

I boiled 8 lbs of chicken last night now it just weighs over 4 idk what to do

[@CaliCastro650]

What about eggs 🥚?

[@Dakiniwoman]

Thank you for your video... I have been extremely confused about this... How to weigh and calculate the macros when the meat has a big bone in it?

[@trappist95]

What if I microwave it afterwords?

[@Shel15]

Do the nutrition factors stay the same for cook vs raw ? And just the grams/oz only change ?

[@Muslim_individual]

If a 100 grams of raw chicken breast that has 30 grams of protein and 165 kcal was cooked and it became 60 grams does that mean that it would still be 30 grams of protein and 165 kcal?

[@mohammadalikais3877]

Is chicken breast boiled the same as roasted really need the answer

[@danw4468]

That's a really cool scale...what type is it, and can you get it online?

[@ashleybjarnason5756]

I'm so confused on how to calculate the rice

[@stevenlam5841]

What about sweet potatoes? do I weigh it before I put it in the microwave and use that to track? Because most of the times, I did not get to eat all the stuff in the sweet potato. So should i weigh what I actually eat from the sweet potato?

[@FIGJAM1105]

FYI your whole raw is more accurate than cooked is wrong. example here, if raw chicken breast is 23g protein for 100g portion, but a cooked chicken breast is 30g protein for 100g portion, that is an estimated 25% difference. your total protein intake comes to the same.

[@aimeerivera6625]

I weigh it cooked 😬 What about quinoa? How would that work? Should I weigh how much I plan to eat raw and then boil it and serve myself half that amount? I'm confused lol

[@PinkkSenpai]

I weigh mine raw. I thought it was more accurate because when I cook my meat a lot of the fat drains off.

[@snipepe1432]

i still don't understand something let's say i want to eat 30grams of protein from chicken breast, how do i get those 30 grams? is it from 100g of cooked breast or 100g of raw breast

[@Blessings1804]

So which one is best way to track raw or cooked?

[@White1nsane]

Actually I just came here, to tell you I need that shirt xD

[@micaelabucci326]

Omg ty!! I'm still watching the video and learning now that 4oz raw is around 3oz cooked. Every time I weighed cooked foods from the fridge, I didn't think of the difference.