How many grams in a serving?

donnbradman

How many grams is there in a normal serving of rice, pasta and potatoes?

Stench Blossoms

Normal to you and normal to me could be completely different.

Only way to know is to weight out a portion of what you'd usually cook.

Alf Veedersane

donnbradman wrote: »

How many grams is there in a normal serving of rice, pasta and potatoes?

If you're trying to work out how much you should be having, work out how many calories/carbs/etc you want to get from it and take it from there.

If you want to know what safefood.eu thinks, it's 25g for pasta and rice and 1 medium or 2 small potatoes.

conzy

I would say substantially smaller than most people are used to.

A typical serving of wholegrain pasta for me these days is 80-100g which is around 300 calories.

My housemate commented the other day "But I can still see the bottom of the pot?!" :pac:

I'd say your typical portion of pasta is 250-300g, going on the volume I ate in college and the portions I see others making.. Which is about 900 calories...

Honey-ec

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

If you want to know what safefood.eu thinks, it's 25g for pasta and rice.

As a main? Had a quick look there and couldn't find those guidelines.

62g of rice and 75g of pasta would always have been the portion sizes (for a main course) that I would have used. Uncooked weight, obviously.

Both of which are still significantly smaller than most people would be used to.

donnbradman

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

If you're trying to work out how much you should be having, work out how many calories/carbs/etc you want to get from it and take it from there.

If you want to know what safefood.eu thinks, it's 25g for pasta and rice and 1 medium or 2 small potatoes.

25 Gramms? ****ing hell! That can't be right

Alf Veedersane

donnbradman wrote: »

25 Gramms? ****ing hell! That can't be right

It isn't right.

It's 'grams'.

Obesity Ireland have it as 50g (uncooked).

runawaybishop

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

1 medium or 2 small potatoes.

So not 8? Whoops.

Merkin

donnbradman wrote: »

How many grams is there in a normal serving of rice, pasta and potatoes?

I think your best bet is to actually weigh a typical portion of those carb types TYPICAL TO YOU and then post on here. I think people usually overdo pasta portions and the recommended amount of something like linguine is 75g whereas people find it all too easy to be heavy handed and go overboard. A nice portion of potatoes is about 200g but if you're used to a big plate of spuds that's going to seem like a lot. It's all about comparing what is usual for you, looking at the recommended amount for comparison and then cutting down or finding substitutes.

Mellor

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

If you want to know what safefood.eu thinks, it's 25g for pasta and rice and 1 medium or 2 small potatoes.

That's not really what they are saying though.
That is exactly what they call "1 serving" on their website, but they are using the word in a different way. When they serving, they mean as part of a 6+ serving's a day food pyramid model. And that you should be eating 2 or 3 "servings" with dinner.

I'm not trying to defend Safefood. I just think there's enough nonsense to criticise them with without misrepresenting anything.

They have a pasta recipe for two that include 225g of pasta. 9 "servings" for two people. :rolleyes:

See here.

Most men need about 8 servings a day...

The actual portion that you eat may be bigger or smaller than the servings listed in the Food Pyramid...

...
1 slice of brown sliced bread or wholegrain soda bread
3 dessertspoons dry porridge oats (30g)
2 breakfast cereal wheat or oat biscuits
2 dessertspoons of mashed potatoes
3 dessertspoons or 1/2 cup boiled pasta, rice, noodles (25g/1 oz uncooked)

Alf Veedersane

Mellor wrote: »

That's not really what they are saying though.
That is exactly what they call "1 serving" on their website, but they are using the word in a different way. When they serving, they mean as part of a 6+ serving's a day food pyramid model. And that you should be eating 2 or 3 "servings" with dinner.

I'm not trying to defend Safefood. I just think there's enough nonsense to criticise them with without misrepresenting anything.

I wasn't trying to criticise them. I just said what they would call a serving.

I'd presumed that they weren't suggesting that 25g of uncooked pasta would be sufficieent for a meal.

Mellor

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

I wasn't trying to criticise them. I just said what they would call a serving.

I'd presumed that they weren't suggesting that 25g of uncooked pasta would be sufficieent for a meal.

Criticise away. Their understanding and logic is terrible. Not sure if you were about last year but SafeFood tried to use boards.ie for a promotion, the associate thread was a car crash.

I just meant that the way the OP was using it, as in the normal serving amount you should use.

irishbuzz

Hopefully I'm staying on topic here but if I usually have 40g of brown rice as a serving can anyone tell me what a proportionate serving of quinoa would be?

Alf Veedersane

irishbuzz wrote: »

Hopefully I'm staying on topic here but if I usually have 40g of brown rice as a serving can anyone tell me what a proportionate serving of quinoa would be?

Do you mean as a substitute for the brown rice or as an acccompaniment to brown rice in a main meal?

They're pretty much identical in terms of macros, as far as I can tell.

irishbuzz

Substitute. I just want to know what an equivalent portion would be in quinoa. I'm assuming there would be a difference since they soak up water differently etc.

I wouldn't say they are identical macro wise. More protein in quinoa for a start.

Alf Veedersane

irishbuzz wrote: »

Substitute. I just want to know what an equivalent portion would be in quinoa. I'm assuming there would be a difference since they soak up water differently etc.

I wouldn't say they are identical macro wise. More protein in quinoa for a start.

MyFitnessPal has the following for 40g of both (cooked):

• Brown rice (long grain): 44 kcal, 9 carbs, 0 fat, 1 protein
• Quinoa: 44 kcal, 9 carbs, 0 fat, 2 protein

I'm not saying MyFitnessPal is the most accurate gauge in the world but that's what it said.

purple cow

The Median portion of Pasta consumed by the adult population in Ireland is 199g of cooked pasta (1 tablespoon = 30gms)
214g for men
161g for women

http://www.iuna.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Irish-Food-Portion-Sizes-Database.pdf

A_Sober_Paddy

Finland drinks a lot of milk, top of the list but on the cancer list they are 19th...Netherlands are thirds in consumption but not in the top 20 in the cancer list...

Albania are 8th on milk consumption and nowhere on the cancer list

rubadub

Most microwave ready to eat rice packs are 250g, and they tell you 125g is the portion. However the packs of uncooked rice usually quote a higher portion size than this.

I weighed rice from the takeaway "letseatin" and it was 310g. This was a typical size you get in indian or chinese takeaways.

Hatfry

I have 75g(uncooked) of rice per meal and thought that was small, definitely doesn't feel like a large portion to me

Hatfry

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

MyFitnessPal has the following for 40g of both (cooked):

• Brown rice (long grain): 44 kcal, 9 carbs, 0 fat, 1 protein
• Quinoa: 44 kcal, 9 carbs, 0 fat, 2 protein

I'm not saying MyFitnessPal is the most accurate gauge in the world but that's what it said.

I find it's best to go by the "uncooked" nutritional info, afaik theres no way to gauge exactly what weight it will come out at cooked, since everyone cooks differently.

Alf Veedersane

Good tip. I'll bear that in mind. Haven't had to decide on what to select for pasta or rice in quite some time

A_Sober_Paddy

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

MyFitnessPal has the following for 40g of both (cooked):

• Brown rice (long grain): 44 kcal, 9 carbs, 0 fat, 1 protein
• Quinoa: 44 kcal, 9 carbs, 0 fat, 2 protein

I'm not saying MyFitnessPal is the most accurate gauge in the world but that's what it said.

That doesn't work out...9 carbs 0 fat and 1 protein is 40kcal not 44?

Shane732

The one portion Uncle Bens bags are 62.5g.

Alf Veedersane

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

That doesn't work out...9 carbs 0 fat and 1 protein is 40kcal not 44?

That's what it gave me for 40g of rice. There was more than one option so it'll depend on what was keyed in. But i wouldn't lose sleep over 4 kcal.