Hi, Can anyone give me an answer to my query please. I am a bit puzzled on weight watcher pro points a jacket potato 250g is 8 points but boiled potatoes is 2 points per 100 g so you can have more boiled that jacket, how come? It has puzzled me as to why, is it something to do with the skin maybe?
Jacket potato or boiled
- Thread starter Leeboy
- Start date
Hi there,
It explains it in one of the books but not very well as I was confused for a while.
I always confuse myself when I try and explain this but here goes . . .
If you are cooking a jacket potato at home you would weigh it raw before you cook it (well I would), for example a 250g potato (raw weight) would be 5 propoints.
50g Raw Potato = 1 Propoint.
It mentions it a different way in the book because sometimes we buy these when we eat out, we can't weigh them before they are cooked so on average it would be about 8 ppts because the water evaporates as its cooking which would make it shrink down so technically its a bigger spud to start with approximately a 400g spud.
I hope this made some sense to you I just stick to cooking them myself and weighing them at 50g Raw Potato = 1 Propoint.
Hope I've helped somehow.
Good luck xxx
It explains it in one of the books but not very well as I was confused for a while.
I always confuse myself when I try and explain this but here goes . . .
If you are cooking a jacket potato at home you would weigh it raw before you cook it (well I would), for example a 250g potato (raw weight) would be 5 propoints.
50g Raw Potato = 1 Propoint.
It mentions it a different way in the book because sometimes we buy these when we eat out, we can't weigh them before they are cooked so on average it would be about 8 ppts because the water evaporates as its cooking which would make it shrink down so technically its a bigger spud to start with approximately a 400g spud.
I hope this made some sense to you
I just stick to cooking them myself and weighing them at 50g Raw Potato = 1 Propoint.Hope I've helped somehow.
Good luck xxx
