Udon noodles have 338 kcal per 100 g dry. The thick, chewy wheat noodles are denser than most pasta, so a small bowl weighs more than expected. Cooking roughly doubles the weight. Weigh your portion – the dense texture makes visual estimation unreliable.
How should I track Udon noodles, dry?
The key to tracking Udon 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.