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Kaylz

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Why when say the likes of sausages says x amount of carb per 100g raw then says grilled per 2 sausages and a weight in brackets why the carbs have changed? just wondering what would happen in regards to say a slice of black/white pudding on being cooked as that gives carbs as sold? Anyone able to answer any of these questions for me at all? Thanks in advance xx
 
I assume it's the carbs per 100g that change, not the carbs per sausage. When you cook them, some of the fat normally drips out of them, so they can weigh significantly less than they did before you cooked them.
I think there will still be the same number of carbs per item in the cooked products as you started with, only the fat content will have changed.( It can only be approximate, no manufacturer knows exactly how much fat will drip out, it depends how you cook them, whether you prick them with a fork, whether you cook til just done, or incinerate them, etc etc)
 
Probably because the sausages will have lost some weight during cooking.

@Robin, beat me to it.
 
:confused: so Tesco finest pork sausages say 100g raw - .06g carb, then 2 grilled sausages (116g)1.6g, sorry I still don't get it
but say the black pudding says as sold a 20g slice is 2.4g, this wouldn't change on cooking?
Sorry for being TOTALLY thick 😳:( xx
 
Sorry I cannot answer your question, but am relieved to see I am not the only one having problems getting my head round the carb values of uncooked and cooked foods, and why they differ x
 
What Tesco are saying is mathematically complicated, (and akin to comparing apples with oranges) but here goes.
One sausage, cooked, weighs 58g ( half of their figure of 116 for 2) and has 0.8g of carb ( half of their figure of 1.6)
Therefore, if it had 0.6g of carb per 100g when it was raw, it must have weighed around 133g, giving it a total carb of 0.8 before you cooked it.
So, ( if you haven't dozed off) the carb content hasn't changed, but the weight of the sausage has.
The figures do look strange, I'm sure a sausage ought not to lose more than half its weight when cooked. I wonder if the Tesco Maths boffins have got confused.( unless I have. Any Maths boffins in the forum?)
 
It doesn't make sense at all, at least some of their figures must be wrong. 400g in pack, so total pack of 8 would be 4 x 0.6 = 2.4g. Grilled 4 servings of 2 saus. would be 4 x 1.6 = 6.4g. Think some of the other categories are equally dubious, but no t ime to check now, off to church!
 
Unfortunately unless you make the food yourself you have no way of knowing how accurate the given carb info is on anything. Why not try an experiment, weigh your portion of sausages raw and work out the carb content. Then weigh them again once cooked and work out the carbs again based on the cooked info and see how far different it is. If it's a lot then write to the manufacturer asking them for better info and see if you get an answer! And in the meantime maybe take an average of the two, a few grams here and there won't make any difference to your insulin dose anyway.

I think by law the nutrition info on packets doesn't have to be 100% accurate anyway, only within certain tolerances, and from experience with my daughter I think you've got a bit more wiggle room on the numbers than you'd expect, so try not to stress about it too much! Just take your black pudding as given and enjoy it 🙂
 
I think this really becomes an issue when the Carb level is given as a %
I have always considered the carb level in terms of grams/carbs to remain the same but the overall weight of, let's say, the sausage falls because of cooking.
I have always chosen to ignore that and just focus on the gram content i.e. 1 sausage 0.8g/carb. raw or cooked. I cannot see any of the carb content burning off during the cooking process.
Rightly or wrongly but I am not a food scientist.
I hate complicated equations and where I have to think to deeply.
 
Robin said:
I had to google that! Nothing like the forum for adding to my sum of general knowledge!
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I can’t believe you have never watched the Big Bang Theory, best comedy on the telly. Get the box set Robin, you will thank me later. 🙂
 
Kaylz said:
Why when say the likes of sausages says x amount of carb per 100g raw then says grilled per 2 sausages and a weight in brackets why the carbs have changed? just wondering what would happen in regards to say a slice of black/white pudding on being cooked as that gives carbs as sold? Anyone able to answer any of these questions for me at all? Thanks in advance xx
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It absolutely befuddles me all this before cooking, after cooking. Why does it matter what the carbs, calories, fat etc are before cooking if you’re on a diet or diabetic you only need to know when it’s cooked, unless you are going to eat them raw! 😱
 
I was advised if you are going to fry anything, the best oil is Rapeseed oil, I fry my chips in Rapeseed oil;. As I am type 2 with insulin, I am vegetarian, in concern with Kayzl, about his black pudding, as you probably see that I don't eat that. Crispy Oil with Rapeseed is best I can recommend. If you want to keep your Blood sugars down in the morning, go to an African or a West Indian shop and buy BITTER LEAF and boil it and drink it bitter and go to bed. It may make go to go to the toilet. There are plenty of remedies.
 
eggyg said:
It absolutely befuddles me all this before cooking, after cooking. Why does it matter what the carbs, calories, fat etc are before cooking if you’re on a diet or diabetic you only need to know when it’s cooked, unless you are going to eat them raw! 😱
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On another thread I asked if folk weighed vegetables before or after boiling to get the carbs as fresh veg gives as sold per 100g, it raised a question of does it change weight in this case it was sprouts so out of pure curiosity I did the experiment last night, my 100g raw sprouts weighed 117g on boiling, sorry useless piece of information there lol xx
 
Ronnie Morrison said:
I was advised if you are going to fry anything, the best oil is Rapeseed oil, I fry my chips in Rapeseed oil;. As I am type 2 with insulin, I am vegetarian, in concern with Kayzl, about his black pudding, as you probably see that I don't eat that. Crispy Oil with Rapeseed is best I can recommend. If you want to keep your Blood sugars down in the morning, go to an African or a West Indian shop and buy BITTER LEAF and boil it and drink it bitter and go to bed. It may make go to go to the toilet. There are plenty of remedies.
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I use Extra Virgin Olive Oil and that's not going to change, there are no remedies its all a load of c**p and I'm female thanks not a male!
 
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