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tarae
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Posted: 7 Oct 2006 09:21 pm |
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I noticed that there seems to be a big difference between the amount of calories in the raw shrimp and the cooked in moist heat. Why is that and can cooking something really reduce the calories?
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Peter
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Posted: 9 Oct 2006 03:56 am |
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To answer the question in general, I doubt that cooking something reduces calories. But cooking something can add or eliminate water. So if you compare 3 oz of something raw to 3 oz of something cooked, the calories could be quite different.
With rice, for example, with all the water absorbed the calories per 3 oz would be less for cooked rice (in the 3 oz you'd have much less rice and much more water).
Vice versa for something where the cooking eliminates water.
On the other hand I'd expect 3 oz of raw rice to have about the same number of calories after it was cooked; likely the same for shrimp.
Peter
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paperdoll
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Posted: 12 Oct 2006 06:10 pm |
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Is this the same for chicken? I was looking at a frozen bag of chicken breasts the other day and the nutritional information said for an entire breast it was only 150 calories. These things look monsterous. I assume its 150 cooked, or raw...right?
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Peter
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Posted: 13 Oct 2006 05:10 am |
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If the package doesn't say cooked, the numbers are probably for raw.
If you were to simply grill them, you would likely cook out fat and they would end up with fewer calories. Fry them in batter... and watch out!
See the table on this page:
http://www.thelegacywebsite.com/tutorial_fat.html
Peter
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Nir
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Posted: 17 Oct 2006 07:44 am |
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| Chicken loses weight in cooking (loses water). If I'm cooking chicken breast, I'll only weigh it afterwards (e.g. 148 calories and 32g of protein for 100g of grilled chicken breast)
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