Help! Pasta calories

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I’m missing something here. My Aldi orzo says 100g is 167 calories, but it says 100g dried pasta makes 210g cooked pasta, and it says a serving of 210g is 351 calories.

So I measure out 100g dried pasta and cook it, how can it increase by 184 calories by being cooked in water?

I cannot work out pasta calories, so following for advice

It says 'cooked' on the typical values/calories. So 100g cooked pasta is 167 cals.

The 100g is also cooked. So 100g is 167 is probably only 50g uncooked.

The calories in the first column are actually for 100g cooked. I've attached the waitrose one for comparison.

Pasta is all much of a muchness. When I was counting, I went by raw weight because you can't account accurately for how much water has been absorbed when cooked. Same for rice and lentils.

It doesn’t increase the calories, just the weight.

If you weigh out 100g of dry pasta and it’s say 200 calories, it remains 200 calories once cooked. But weigh it again once cooked and it will longer be 100g as it has absorbed water, so it will now be say 130g.

If you weigh the pasta after it’s cooked instead of before and it weighs 100g as above, it will be fewer than 200 calories because it’s not just 100g of pasta, it’s 100g made up of both pasta and water, and obviously water has 0 calories.

So in your example, you see at the bottom of the pic it says the equivalence? How much dry pasta weighs once it’s cooked and has absorbed the water?

You can basically just double it if you are weighing dry, so if you want to have 100g of dry pasta, that would be 200g of cooked so roughly 334 calories. If you ate 100g of that pasta raw without cooking (impressive) it would still be 334 calories.

I thinks that’s 100g cooked is 167 and a portion is roughly twice that

just unfortunate that they have 100g dried making a cooked portion

Thank you. I understand now.
and I’m very sorry how much I misunderstood it, I was counting the 100g cooked calories but was consuming way more 😹😹😹