Popcorn: the disappearing nutritional value

[napaguy99 0]

So I cooked up some popcorn tonight and made a startling discovery while waiting for the microwave. Popcorn loses nutritional value after you cook it. For example:

Uncooked Popcorn:
12g fat 16g carb 2g protein

Cooked popcorn (same proportion of the bag):
2.5g fat 4g carb 0.5g protein

Anybody have any idea why this happens?

Oh and who would eat raw popcorn anyway???

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[fenceline 0]

Hmm, could be the heat...

It has a way of breaking down the molecular structure of the three.

[lawrocket 3]

Hmmm. I am looking at the proportions. All cooked figures are 1/4 of uncooked figures.

Here's a suggestion: Is the meaure of the serving size "1 Cup?" If so, it takes a lot less cooked popcorn to make one cup than uncooked.

Maybe that has something to do with it.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[peregrinerose 0]

At least on the one I have, the uncooked serving size is 3T, the cooked serving size is 1 c. There is no way that 3T of kernels make only 1 c. of popcorn.

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[Stumpy 284]

More to the point, if you are eating popcorn for its nutritional value i think you need some vegetables

Never try to eat more than you can lift

[josheezammit 0]

it loses its' value, cause Adam is gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahh, what a wonderful world.

[Remster 30]

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(same proportion of the bag):

Could it be the proportions are based on volume?

Remster

[Lindercles 0]

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it loses its' value, cause Adam is gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmmm, the man's got a point...

[mdrejhon 8]

Does air-popping preserve more nutritional value over microwaving? I think I heard something to do with this -- although I don't think that many people air-pop popcorn these days.

[napaguy99 0]

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it loses its' value, cause Adam is gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey YOU were the one that sucked MY.....

whoa!!!

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