Thread: Brown Rice - Calories Raw vs. Cooked

Go by cooked. The raw when cooked, will close to triple in size. Hence the difference

Originally Posted by PreMier

Go by cooked. The raw when cooked, will close to triple in size. Hence the difference

Good. I figured as much! Thanks.

Are you cooking a 1/4 cup of rice and eating it or cooking rice and eating a 1/4 cup of it cooked?

Originally Posted by The_Chicken_Daddy

Are you cooking a 1/4 cup of rice and eating it or cooking rice and eating a 1/4 cup of it cooked?

I cook it 1 cup at a time, eat it 1/4 cup at a time after it's cooked. It usually comes out to about five 1/4-cup servings.

Personally I usually go by raw weight/measure (meat especially, but also grains/rice and legumes).

When you cook things the amount of water you add/take away is so variable that you really do not know what you are left with.

So I measure raw and use the nutritional data for when it is raw, then I cook it and eat it cook. That way, no matter how much I destroy it when I cook it, I know how much I am really eating.

I don't measure the volume, I measure the weight. Cooked brown rice is something like 32 or 33 calories per ounce.