SunnyExpat
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- Type of diabetes
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- Tablets (oral)
The carb count always changes from raw to cooked, as the composition and volume changes (water evaporates out). To end up with 100g cooked turnip, you'd need to start with more of it raw. That's why I always weigh the raw ingredient before using it in cooking, so I know how many carbs I'll be eating even though the cooked weight of the product will be reduced. If recording the full composition of the dish (fats and protein too), I add "tablespoon of butter" or however much I used in cooking. I found it easier then weighing a cooked dish/ingredient, especially as I don't know how much fat was supposed to be added in the process of cooking for the database values.
Not much evaporates when you boil it though.