I have a question that I tried to find an answer to and just couldn’t get a clear one. I did email my nutritionist but it’s after hours and won’t here back until tomorrow. So in the meantime I thought I’d inquire here….

I was doing a little meal prep for the next few days and wanted to portion things out to 2ish ounces. I weighed and air fried some tofu…. Tofu is packed in a lot of liquid and even after pressing it there’s still a lot. Obviously the post air fry weight was considerably less, like almost half…. Now, the nutritional value is still the same, protein, carbs, fat etc. So if I weigh it after cooking and log it, it’ll give me the nutritional values for the cooked weight BUT shouldn’t I count the nutritional value of it uncooked?


Thoughts?

To add: I’m most just wondering about nutritional value here. I want to maximize my protein intake here and I don’t want to cheat myself.

It depends on the description of the food you are tracking. The food logger you are using may have different names such as “beef, 80%, cooked”. Then the cooked weight matters.

The labels on most packaged foods are for the uncooked weight, so the tofu would be weighed minus excess liquid from the packaging before you cook it.

If you eat something raw, weigh and log it raw (vegetables, nuts, sushi, etc) and if you eat it cooked, weigh and log it cooked. If you are using an app, there is a wide selection of preparation styles to choose from for the same foods.

When I’m in doubt, I choose the highest calorie count that closely represents the food so I don’t run the risk of undercounting calories.

Thanks for the input. I’m only a few weeks post op. So I’m really looking at my Protein amounts closely. This helps.