Quaker, Quaker Puffed Rice has 383 kcal per 100 g dry. Cooking roughly triples the weight, so 100 g dry becomes about 280–300 g cooked at ~130 kcal per 100 g. With 1.4 g fiber per 100 g, fiber provides a caloric discount: roughly 2 kcal/g instead of 4. Always weigh the form you log – raw vs cooked is the biggest tracking error for rice.
How should I track Quaker, Quaker Puffed Rice?
Quaker, Quaker Puffed Rice is a good source of iron. The key to tracking Quaker, Quaker Puffed Rice 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.