Very cool! Data needs some curation however. Search "Bacon" for example and you'll see raw bacon with 95kcal and 4g of protein while cooked bacon says 153kcal and 10g of protein.
Very cool! Data needs some curation however. Search "Bacon" for example and you'll see raw bacon with 95kcal and 4g of protein while cooked bacon says 153kcal and 10g of protein.
Well, it's equating mass (28g) which is the right way to represent data here.
Equating calories is far less useful since you aren't choosing between eating 100cal of raw bacon vs 100cal of cooked bacon.
And the question you're trying to ask is "what nutrients/calories do my 4 strips of bacon have?"
What’s the point of providing nutritional data on raw bacon? Nobody eats raw bacon, do they?
Because you want to be able to log the calories/nutrients of the food you're eating before it's cooked into a dish.
You don't want to have to cook your bacon and then measure its mass before you know how many calories it has when you can just log the raw form before you cook it.
You don't want to do that, but unless you are consuming all the rendered fat that's what you do to get an accurate value.
Sure you do. And if you don't consume all of the grease, then you have some overestimation error in your tracking which is evened out by (but usually dominated by) all of your underestimation errors, like every time you forget to log the squirts of oil in the pan or that handful of mixed nuts or every time you eat out.
Having to cook your food first, take it out, measure it, and put it back in the dish you're making before you can estimate content doesn't seem like a recipe (pun) for habit forming here. Nor is it viable for anything but the most basic dishes like individually pan frying large ingredients.
Almost every protein that I consume is weighed raw for ease in logging. One reason is if you are cooking a dish with e.g. bacon as an ingredient, you may not be able or want to separate it out at the end. Likewise, if I sauté chicken breasts in a pan and then finish the dish with other ingredients, I probably want to just eat the food and not deal with weighing them after water loss. Providing both just provides greater ease in logging your meals and is exact-enough for most people :)