calorie and protien counts

[Jamie T]

hey Gang.. I notice that when i cook meats ther is quite a bit of shrinkage. toinight for instance i grilled 1000 grams (2.2 pounds ) of chicjken breast and after cookin was left with 645 grams ( just slightly under 1.5 pounds) my question when doing my protein cand calorie counting do I count the raw weight or the cooked weight + in this senario does this chiken have about 28 g or protein per 100 grams so is thsi 280 g protein or 200 g.

Jesse - your three pounds of beef - that weight before cooking correct??

J

[Jamie T]

jeez .. i should take a second and correct my atrocious typing ..sorry..

J

[Jesse Marunde]

I don't have any answers for you. alot of help I am...

hehe you said shrinkage...

J

[Eric Johnson]

Jaime since shrinkage occurs when it is cold ... oops.. I mean when water evaporates from the surface of the meat and when fat, water and juices drip from the meat and non of those contain protein I would think that the protein content would be cooked weight. But the fat juice does contain calories so I am not sure wether the calories are before or after cooking, but I would assume after cooking, just because no one I know eats chicken before cooking so what good would the nutritional info be if it was before cooking.

So no definate answers, just thinking about it out loud, good question.

[Jamie T]

Big E - good answer.. no one eats chicken raw.. what was i thinking!!

[Jay O'Neill]

always account for shrinkage... it's the best answer when you get out of cold water...
Just ask George Costanza(seinfeld)
To answer your question...The protein will remain the meat...

p.s. I dig the Victoria's secret banner... Very Punny!

[Jacob Sauter]

I weigh all my food cooked, and count the kcals from there.