Rice noodles, dry has 360 kcal per 100 g dry. Cooking roughly doubles the weight, bringing calorie density down to about 180 kcal per 100 g cooked. Log either dry or cooked weight consistently – switching between them is the most common noodle tracking error.
How should I track Rice noodles, dry?
The key to tracking Rice noodles, dry 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.