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Struggling with this label help..

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digihat

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Hi everyone hope your doing well just looking at this label working out the carbs and I'm finding it very confusing a bag of rice has weighed about 61g but then the two values on the box are confusing. I work that out about 21ish carbs am I just being abit of an idiot here?

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Think I figured it out apologies for the random post just found the label a tad confusing been a long work day :rofl:
 
Rice pretty much has the same carbs per brand @digihat so if you ever get another label that’s confusing, you could always look at a better-labelled rice on a supermarket website.
 
digihat said:
Hi everyone hope your doing well just looking at this label working out the carbs and I'm finding it very confusing a bag of rice has weighed about 61g but then the two values on the box are confusing. I work that out about 21ish carbs am I just being abit of an idiot here?

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These labels drive potty. Why would you want to weigh it after you have cooked it!!!!!
You need to know how much to cook to start with. Even worse with Lasagne. How am I supposed to weigh the pasta once I have cooked the Lasagne. A friend has been campaigning about this for a long time. I have no interest in the calories etc I just want o know how many carbs there are in 100g before it is cooked. (Rant over)

There is usually some tiny print about how much dry weight gives you an amount once prepared but it often requires a bit of searching. On your pack it is showing that the whole pack of 500g is 8 portions, so one ‘portion’ is 62.5 g dry weight etc. Well done for sorting it. I tend to stick to the same makes of pasta rice etc and we have a list of the dry weight needed in order to get 25 g of carbs.
Some good resources for teaching ratios !!!
 
The vital clue as far as I’m concerned on that label is that they have based their portion on 62.5g dry rice.

I find it really irritating that some labels use the ‘as prepared’ value - because then I’d never know how much to cook… plus if I cook it a bit longer and it absorbs more water the values will all be wrong (as mine will have more weight of water in it).

But if I know 62.5g of dry rice makes 48g of carbs in the portion - I can work back from that and weigh the right amount of dry rice.
 
digihat said:
Think I figured it out apologies for the random post just found the label a tad confusing been a long work day :rofl:
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Things like rice and pasta can be tricky as the difference between the carbs in dry weight and prepared weight can depend on how it is done because of the water absorbed. So as long as you know what the packet is telling you you can work it out. You have been given the per 100g and the per portion on that packet. Par boiled means it is partially cooked so it would likely absorb more water if you then boil it but would still have the same carbs for that portion.
 
Yes, these dehydrated products are always confusing and there doesn't seem to be any consistent way of them displaying it other than in a way which boggles the mind or frustrates.
I think this label is one of the better ones as it tells you how many carbs will be in 62.5g (the recommended portion) of dry product, so if you had 61g dry weight of it, then it will contain just shy of 48g carbs.
 
SB2015 said:
These labels drive potty. Why would you want to weigh it after you have cooked it!!!!!
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Well if you’re cooking rice for the family and your teenage son has a large portion, you have a medium portion, and your toddler has a small portion you’ll have to weigh yours after you cook it. No point weighing it before unless you’re making yours in a seperate pan
 
Martin.A said:
What's always baffled me is how absorbing water results in more carbs. Water has no carbs.
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It doesn’t. It’s the same carbs in the full portion but the weight increases. There’s less carbs in 100g cooked rice than 100g raw rice
 
What is perhaps slightly confusing about that particular product is the it is Par boiled so will have already absorbed moisture so it may then depend on what you then do with it.
I always think rice is tricky as if you cook in loads of water and then drain when cooked you are discarding some of the starch but if you cook with a smaller amount of water and it is then all absorbed the starch is retained. Can be a big difference.???
 
Inka said:
It’s easier to have the raw weight carbs.
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That’s what I find. Too many variables in the cooking process when I do it!
 
No, it suggests the opposite surely? That 100g cooked rice has ^less^ carbs than 100g raw rice - which it does. If I weight out 50g dry uncooked pasta (approx 35g carbs), cook it and weigh it after cooking it will weigh around 100g but will still have the original 35g carbs in. If I then weigh out 50g of my cooked pasta (to compare to my 50g uncooked pasta) that 50g will then have only 17.5g carbs - ie less for the same weight.
 
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