Rice issues

When preparing rice, do you look at the raw uncooked macro nutrients or do you calculate using the cooked weight? And by how much will 100g uncooked brown rice increase by when cooked?

I am a little confused by this myself but not just rice, all foods. should you work your diet out based on raw food values or cooked??

Soorry dont mean to hijack....

DJ ???

As far as i have seen... its the COOKED weight when it comes to rice...
When it comes to chicken, steak, mince etc... that is based on the raw weight.

100g of uncooked rice is a SHYTE load of rice... you will get sick trying to get that all down.

Deadgoat wrote: When preparing rice, do you look at the raw uncooked macro nutrients or do you calculate using the cooked weight? And by how much will 100g uncooked brown rice increase by when cooked?

The macros are for uncooked rice, tastic rice will say its for the uncooked product. The weight it increases by will vary depending on how long you cook the rice for, the longer you cook it, the more water it will absorb

measure raw weight.when cooking u either gain weight via hydration or loose weight via dehydration but the values stay the same!

Awesome, thanks DJ

Thanks for the input guys, DJ you say the gain in weight is due to osmosis but doesn't the weight increase due to mitosis which results in MORE rice grains instead of just the same grains but larger. If thats the case then wont you have to look at the cooked weight as then you would have more GRAINS?
Hope that made as much sense to you as it did in my head

dude all u do is if u need 3 meals a day of rice, at 50g raw weight. x 3 = 150g raw weight. boil your rice, then drain it and weight it = 450g(estimate) now u still need to have 3 meals out of that 450g so u divide 450/3 = 150g cooked weight.

Shot

Deadgoat wrote: Thanks for the input guys, DJ you say the gain in weight is due to osmosis but doesn't the weight increase due to mitosis which results in MORE rice grains instead of just the same grains but larger. If thats the case then wont you have to look at the cooked weight as then you would have more GRAINS?
Hope that made as much sense to you as it did in my head

:huh: that was the most confusing thing I've ever read lol

:laugh: :laugh: :silly: so im not the only one then......

Let me try this again...

If a grain of rice weighs a gram, and you have 50g it means you have 50 grains right...

Now if rice weighs more due to water retention it means that you still have 50 grains which just weigh more, lets say they now weigh 150g. Which means you will have the same macros as 50g of rice in spite of weighing 150g

Now if rice weighs more due to the rice multiplying (which is what I think happens), then if you have 150g of rice at the end it means you'll have 150 grains of rice. Which means you must calculate macros for 150g in spite of starting with 50g


Hope that clears up what I was thinking

I just cant understand how the rice is undergoing mitosis when you cook it...anyways no worries

Neither can I but you cant argue that you end up with more grains then you started with, therefore it has to be mitosis, right?

Sting wrote: I just cant understand how the rice is undergoing mitosis when you cook it...anyways no worries

The rice made babies :laugh:

Deadgoat wrote: Neither can I but you cant argue that you end up with more grains then you started with, therefore it has to be mitosis, right?

But that's the thing, you dont end up with more grains of rice than when you started

Fakey_AK wrote:

Sting wrote: I just cant understand how the rice is undergoing mitosis when you cook it...anyways no worries

The rice made babies :laugh:

whahahahaha

You do, half a cup of raw rice can fill half a plate when cooked, right?

Just googled this, looks like I'm wrong. Rice cant undergo mitosis as its not a living organism... in my defence if you asked an average Joe he would agree with me. Nothing like a bit of pseudoscience to make one feel good about passing matric

Deadgoat wrote: You do, half a cup of raw rice can fill half a plate when cooked, right?

yeah because it absorbs water...anyways Deadgoat you're a good sport!

Wahahaha, deadgoat that was hilarious. You actually had me laughing out loud reading those posts. I was just trying to picture how the hell these little grains of rice might be multiplying. Thanks for the laugh bro

haha pleasure spike, I wish I could say it was intentional

Deadgoat, I would love to hear your theory on popcorn?

:laugh: :laugh: if I told you then what would I base my thesis on?

Deadgoat wrote: :laugh: :laugh: if I told you then what would I base my thesis on?

Meiosis...anyways have a karma for being a good sport

Shot, back at ya for being so patient