Noodles! Help please...

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I thought i'd found a quick, low cal lunch in nissin soba cup noodles, now i'm not so sure!?
The label has two weights, 90g at the top of the label and at the bottom 180g prepared. So are there 206 cals in this pot, or is it double that at 412 cals???
Help (hopefully i've explained this well enough 😂)!!!

I would say there are 206kcal per 100g. The calories won't change depending on 90g or 180g as the only difference is added water.

Prepared just means once water has been added. Does water contain calories? No.

I got caught out on these. The 206 cals is for 100g of “prepared product”. So you add however much water, then weight the whole lot and work out the calories accordingly! I can’t remember what it works out too, but I suspect it might be closer to 400 cals than 200!

Sorry - to add that it says 206kcal per 100g of prepared product. So 370kcal total.

Nutracheck puts this pot at 394 kcal for the pot.
If the weight given is per 100g prepared that'd be using a "cooked" noodle weight, which would include the water it absorbs. Like when 50g dry rice becomes 150g cooked.

In this noodle pot, 90g dry weight becomes 180g when the appropriate amount of water is added. So as the calories is based on 100g prepared it would 1.8 x 206 = 370.

As an aside, I hate packaging like this, its confusing for exactly this reason. If you use only used 10g of water and weighed out 100g, it doesn't miraculously make it less calories...like wise if you added 310g of water it doesn't make it more. I wish they'd just say 90g dry=370 calories, whether you add a gallon of water or eat it like dry cereal (joking).

Thank you all!
I agree @MogTheMoogle it's incredibly confusing! I'll only be having them on occasion for lunch, given they're virtually double the cals I initially thought!