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Why are their more calories in dry pasta and rice than their is when it is cooked?

April 26, 2017calories cooked Cooking DRINK dry food pasta recipes rice

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Why are their more calories in dry pasta and rice than their is when it is cooked?

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Rice & pasta expand when boiled; they absorb water. So 1 cup of uncooked rice occupies 3 cups when cooked. Unless you live in UK, those ozs are fluid volume measures. So 2 oz uncooked pasta is 4 oz cooked pasta.