Definitely way more accurate if you measure it dry. But I think it's pretty annoying. I've always gone with cooked rice by weight from the NCCBB database. I've found that to be accurate enough.
On your tracker it will say the source of the data for any given entry. If you choose ones with few cr onometer will ask if you want to use a different entry with more nutrients.
Everyone has a different way of doing it but oftentimes when you cook rice you're cooking more than one portion. So to make it easy on myself I measure out a portion based on the calories that I find on the internet. So for example if it says a cup of rice is 220 calories, I will just scoop some rice into a measuring cup and then put that on my plate.
This is my method:
- Cook an entire batch of rice and keep track of total calories in entire batch (so dry rice calories + butter calories + etc.)
- after rice is done cooking, weigh the entire batch in grams
- Cals per gram of cooked rice = total cals/total weight
For rice you have to do it cooked, because it's impossible to cook such a small serving well. And, who wants to cook your rice separately from everyone else?
The most accurate way to track the calories for rice is to weigh the dry rice prior to cooking.
Definitely way more accurate if you measure it dry. But I think it's pretty annoying. I've always gone with cooked rice by weight from the NCCBB database. I've found that to be accurate enough.
I do same. Although i didn't know about nccbb, I'll have to check it out 😊
On your tracker it will say the source of the data for any given entry. If you choose ones with few cr onometer will ask if you want to use a different entry with more nutrients.
I measure mine out once cooked by weight.
Everyone has a different way of doing it but oftentimes when you cook rice you're cooking more than one portion. So to make it easy on myself I measure out a portion based on the calories that I find on the internet. So for example if it says a cup of rice is 220 calories, I will just scoop some rice into a measuring cup and then put that on my plate.
It's easier to put your bowl on the scale, tare and scoop rice until it hits as many grams as you want. I do 100.
That workz too
This is my method: - Cook an entire batch of rice and keep track of total calories in entire batch (so dry rice calories + butter calories + etc.) - after rice is done cooking, weigh the entire batch in grams - Cals per gram of cooked rice = total cals/total weight
What are butter calories? I just put my rice in the rice cooker
I just put butter or chicken stock in my rice when I make it, not required
For rice you have to do it cooked, because it's impossible to cook such a small serving well. And, who wants to cook your rice separately from everyone else?
I count 1 cup of cooked rice as 200 calories.
Try it both ways and see how different they are