This cereal has 48 kcal per 100 g. As a refined flour, nearly all carbs are fully digestible. Flour is rarely eaten alone – track the recipe amounts to capture the full dish profile. A cup of flour weighs about 120–130 g.
How should I track Cereals, Malt-O-Meal, original, plain, prepared with water, without salt?
Cereals, Malt-O-Meal, original, plain, prepared with water, without salt is high in iron. The key to tracking Cereals, Malt-O-Meal, original, plain, prepared with water, without salt is knowing whether you are logging dry or cooked weight. Grains absorb 2–3 times their weight in water during cooking, so 80 g of dry rice becomes about 200 g cooked. Mixing up dry and cooked values can throw your calorie count off by 200–300%. A meta-analysis (Reynolds et al., Lancet 2019) linked higher whole grain intake to reduced mortality — but only accurate tracking captures the real intake. Weigh on a kitchen scale before cooking and use the matching nutrition values.