How many calories in a lb of white rice?

[sirgonzo420]

I'm trying to do an inventory of my preps, and make a little spreadsheet (I was inspired by GoD's thread a few days ago).

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how many calories are in a pound of dry white rice if I cooked it all up.


Any idea?

[chad]

approx 448 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of cooked wild rice
approx 672 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of restaurant type white rice
approx 592 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of cooked short-grain white rice.
approx 592 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of cooked medium-grain white rice
approx 592 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of cooked long-grain white rice
approx 512 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of cooked medium-grain brown rice
approx 496 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of cooked long-grain brown rice.

stolen from some site i found...

[sirgonzo420]

approx 448 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of cooked wild rice
approx 672 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of restaurant type white rice
approx 592 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of cooked short-grain white rice.
approx 592 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of cooked medium-grain white rice
approx 592 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of cooked long-grain white rice
approx 512 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of cooked medium-grain brown rice
approx 496 calories in 1 lb (16 oz) of cooked long-grain brown rice.

stolen from some site i found...


Thanks.

Maybe I'm just a dumbass, but doesn't like 1/2 lb uncooked rice equal about 1 lb of cooked rice?

And so I guess the figures above are for one lb cooked, which is 1/2 lb uncooked?

Or are the figures above for 1 lb before cooking?


LOL. I don't cook much rice... so I guess I'm a rice-idiot.

Thanks for the hand-holding anyway! ;D

[Hatha Sunahara]

SirGonzo--If you haven't bought the rice yet, you might want to consider keeping brown rice in reserve. It still has most of the nutrients present in the unprocessed rice. It is more of a whole food than white rice, which is 'polished' rice. What is polished off are the vitamins and fiber that helps you digest it, and keep your immune system in tip top shape. The calories are not the important part, the ability of the food to sustain life is far more important. If you measure the worth of food by calories, why not just have a ton of white sugar around? Sugar has 4 calories per gram. So do most other carbs. Proteins also have 4 calories per gram. Fats pack 9 calories per gram. By that logic, a pound of dry rice which is 454 grams would pack 1,816 calories. A pound of butter has 4,086 calories.

I am amazed that so many people I know who are building a stash of food have no idea of the life sustaining values of different foods. I am thankful however that you cannot buy a hamburger in a can.

On the other hand, I can understand why people would want to stockpile huge amounts of toilet paper. It's for when TSHTF. The antidote is lots of toilet paper. Does Ponce work for Scott paper?


Hatha

[sirgonzo420]

SirGonzo--If you haven't bought the rice yet, you might want to consider keeping brown rice in reserve. It still has most of the nutrients present in the unprocessed rice. It is more of a whole food than white rice, which is 'polished' rice. What is polished off are the vitamins and fiber that helps you digest it, and keep your immune system in tip top shape. The calories are not the important part, the ability of the food to sustain life is far more important. If you measure the worth of food by calories, why not just have a ton of white sugar around? Sugar has 4 calories per gram. So do most other carbs. Proteins also have 4 calories per gram. Fats pack 9 calories per gram. By that logic, a pound of dry rice which is 454 grams would pack 1,816 calories. A pound of butter has 4,086 calories.

I am amazed that so many people I know who are building a stash of food have no idea of the life sustaining values of different foods. I am thankful however that you cannot buy a hamburger in a can.

On the other hand, I can understand why people would want to stockpile huge amounts of toilet paper. It's for when TSHTF. The antidote is lots of toilet paper. Does Ponce work for Scott paper?


Hatha


I realize that brown rice is more wholesome, but I've heard it doesn't store as well. I do have some around, but not in as high amounts as white rice. I also have pastas and canned foods, so I'm not limited to rice or anything. I wanted the caloric value merely because the spreadsheet I am making is relatively simple, and doesn't list vitamin/mineral/etc content, just calories.

I am buying rice because it is cheap, and because probably half or better of the world's population survives off of it. It's not the world's best food, but it's surely not the worst either.

By the way, here's a hamburger in a can:

:puke

http://www.thisishowhardiwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/hamburger_in_a_can.jpg

[Ponce]

You got it right Sirgonzo.........better to store white rice.......being from Cuba where they eat rice everyday I myself eat it at three times a week here in the states.......rice goes with just about anything... ham, blk beans, pinto beans, vienna winnies, mixed with a can of soup, eggs, milk .......and so on.

[gunDriller]

about 2000 in a pound of cooked rice.

maybe 7000 in a pound of un-cooked rice ?

[mick silver]

i see what your saying about uncook rice BUT how do you eat uncooked rice

[sirgonzo420]

I wouldn't eat uncooked rice... I'd be afraid it would expand and explode my stomach if I ate too much!

But I know that if you fill a cup with dry rice, and add water and cook it, then it will fill up more than a cup.

When I read websites that are talking about calories in a pound of cooked rice, are they talking about a pound of rice weighed before or after cooking?

Am I just retarded or what? lol

[Hatha Sunahara]

Calories per Gram:

Carbohydrate 4
Protein 4
Fat 9

Grams/Pound---454

Rice = Carbohydrate

454 grams per pound X 4 Calories/Gram = 1,816 calories/pound of rice.

This should give you a good approximation of the caloric content for all your stored food. Canned food will tell you on the can.

I think it's pointless to have more than 60 days of stored food around. If conditions aren't fixed by then, you can live for another 40 days without food before you starve. If things aren't fixed by then, you may not want to be around anyway. This logic isn't new. A lot of Ukranians came to this logic when Stalin starved them to death in the 1930s. I find it hard to imagine a totalitarian atrocity like that on a global scale in the near future. But maybe TPTB are quite that insane, and maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to stash away more food.

Hatha

[Ponce]

Hatha? forty days and forty nights is only the start for what is to come.......so you may as well give up now and give away what little you have in stock.........I'll take the tp ;D

[hoarder]

Brown rice is healthier and tastes better, keeps 5 years under good conditions. I have both but only eat brown.

Avoid "enriched" rice. That means it's "enriched" with MSG.