Is the nutritional info on a pkg. of rice for dry or prepared?

The rice I use lists the nutritional info in 1/4 cups, so I'm assuming that this is dry rice? (No indication either way..)Which would mean that a serving prepared is about 1/2 cup. Does anyone know?? :-)

The nutrition information on packaged foods is always 'as sold'

Awesome! That is great news!

Original Post by gi-jane:

The nutrition information on packaged foods is always 'as sold'

That's not accurate.  There are often a second set of numbers under the heading "As Prepared," which I have seen especially on packaged rices, pastas, and potatoes.

So do you think then that it is safe to say that as long as it doesnt state "as prepared" that the nutritional info given is most likely for the dry food?

Believe me I always look for the *as prepared. My question is in relation to packages that do not indicate as such.

I actually had a bag of rice one time that stated "1/4C cooked" rice was 160 calories. It was plain brown basmati. I was portioning out meagre little 1/4 servings for months before catching on that they meant "1/4C dry rice that has then been cooked and fluffs up to 3/4C". Bastards.

Generally, rice grows x3 when you cook it, and so one serving -either 1/4C dry or 3/4 cooked - should be around 130-170 calories, depending on the type.

Everything I've seen that is dry and needs to be prepared (pancake/baking mix, potato buds, cereal) will either say "dry mix" and have one set of information, have two columns one for "dry" & one for "as prepared", and maybe once just one column for "cooked."  If there is no column telling you what the info is for the final product, then it's for the dry good. 

Actually, I had a similar question myself today.  I made a packaged rice product last night that had nutritional facts for both packaged and prepared versions.  The problem I'm finding putting it into CalorieCount is that the serving size was listed as 1/2 cup (67g), with 2.5 servings per package.  The problem I found was that when I went to measure out what I was going to eat, the total weight of the prepared food was almost 600g, which is definitely more than 2.5x the serving size.

So am I supposed to count what I ate based on the 2.5 servings per package or based on the weight???  Just adding water wouldn't increase the number of calories in the same amount (by weight) of food by more than three times, I'm sure... right?  (This is what I get for trying to understand nutritional facts labels ::rolls eyes::)

Adding water increases weight, not caloric value.  Adding milk and butter increases weight and caloric value.

Water will never cause calories to multiply.