357mag

I eat a chicken breast with about a cup of wild rice blend at work every evening. Not knowing what the calorie content of the wild rice blend was I just used the figure for a cup of wild rice, 165 calories. Today it dawned on me to go into the storeroom and look at the back of the box. I was shocked to read that 1/3 cup contained 200 calories! That means a cup would contain 600 calories! If this is true my diet is way off. I know there is seasoning with the rice but as far as I know seasoning contains few if any calories. This figure just doesn't sound correct to me. It's a mixture of wild rice with some other kind of rice. What do you think?

Emma-Leigh

LOL - Don't stress!! Unless there is a WHOLE healp of crap added to that rice I imagine that is the energy content of 1/3 cup of the RAW/UNCOOKED rice mix!

Depending on what is in the blend and what rice you use, the rice will do anything from double to triple it's volume on cooking...

Although weighing the rice would be the most accurate way to go, next time you cook some - cook up 1/3 of a cup and measure it after cooking to see what volume it becomes. Then, calculate that volume to have 200 cals. Simple!

If anything, I would assume that after cooking you will be looking at something like 200 cals for 2/3 to 3/4 cup of cooked rice.

Oh, and you might want to look at non-seasoned rice - much healthier...