Calories on pasta - dry or cooked weight?

[TheRoaringGirl]

This might be a stupid question but I'm confused about whether the calories in pasta refer to dried weight or cooked. The packet doesn't say!

I looked into this extensively and was so confused! However, I made a note after my research 4 years ago and work on: 80g dried pasta is roughly 284 cal, 68g is 235 cal and 100g of cooked pasta is 162 cal

Thank goodness for you and your research! Also I'm glad to hear somebody else found this confusing cos I thought I was being a bit thick!

I actually had the same issue today. Spaghetti 100g 350calories. Didn’t say anything about if it was dry or cooked weight. But after some research It is dry weight so actually you get quite a lot of pasta out of 100g dry.

It should say?
I used asda glutenfree spaghetti often. It says cooked 180g is 310kcal. That would be probably 75g dry? 65g makes 150g. But normal pasta might be different

Well, I measured out 50g dried (175 kcal according to packet) and when it was cooked it weighed 107g. It's Rigatoni. It was tiny!

Ha! Now you know that these Rigatoni grow 1g=2.14g 😁
I ended up with tiny spaghetti portion the first time too😂

Always the dried weight. It's the weight of the product as sold.

Tescos dried pasta says underneath the nutritional value section ‘75g of uncooked pasta is equal to approx 170g of cooked pasta’ I think that’s about 300 calories. I often weigh it afterwards too to split my teeny portion and DPs mountain and I’d say it’s about right.

@SchrodingersImmigrant I know, right? 😂

I under-logged my calories for a couple of years because I thought the calorie count given on the packet was for dry weight when in fact it was for cooked. I mean, who weighs pasta after cooking it???

Pasta, rice and a lot of dry carbs that you then cook - are all around 350kcal for 100g of uncooked food.

Once you've twigged that, it's easier to work out if you're being quoted cooked or uncooked calories.