Basically title, marinated some chicken breast cubes 200g and chucked them in the airfryer and decided to weigh them after they were done. It came out to be 100g. Macro wise when recording this should one enter 100g or 200g? Shouldn’t it be 100 ?
Not really because of the macro nutrition fact you get online are done while measuring uncooked food(unless stated otherwise) and while cooking them you’re basically just removing water so the macros should stay the same
It’s much more accurate to weigh raw and record at that weight if you are eating the whole portion. Nutritional info is always for as packaged. The weight you lose during cooking does not change the macros (enough to register anyways). And depending on manner of cooking and time cooked, that 200g of raw chicken that is 100g cooked for you, could be 120g for someone else, and 110g for someone else, but the macros would be the same. If weighing cooked, all three of those cooked weights would have different macros. If you are cooking more than you’ll be eating, it becomes a little more time consuming to be accurate. Most accurate way is to use a macros tracking app, create a recipe with the raw weights, weigh the entire meal cooked and that weight is the number of portions and then when logging, you’d weigh your meal and log that weight. Ex: 600g raw chicken is your ingredient, 300(g after cooking) becomes the number of portions and then the number of grams you eat is what you log.BUT the most important part about tracking is consistency. If you’d prefer to weigh cooked, that’s completely ok, and definitely simpler. Just not as accurate.
I’m realizing now I gave you more info than you asked, but I hope this helped. I’m not always great at explaining myself in written form.
Ideally you want to weigh raw and log it as raw chicken breast and then cook because different cooking methods will remove more or less water from the meat depending on what one you use.
This means “cooked” chicken breast could vary slightly.
It’s no big deal, if you do cook then weigh just pick to log it as “grilled”, “boiled”, “roast” chicken.