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Raw vs cooked weight on sweet potatoes — in past I just baked and used an MFP entry to track my meal plan 130f, ‘sweet potato, cooked’ … but I air fried them this week and now I’m up to 2 24oz boxes of pre cut potato to get 6 meals with 130g servings … realizing maybe I need to do less than 130g when air fried to get the same # of carbs ? If anyone knows how to equate like generic cooked —> air fried let me know!!
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Air-frying pulls out more water than baking, so your sweet potatoes end up lighter but denser in carbs per gram. That’s probably why your usual 130g servings aren’t stretching as far.
A good rule of thumb—air-fried sweet potatoes can lose around 25-35% of their weight. So if you were eating 130g of baked sweet potato before, the air-fried equivalent might be more like 90-100g per serving to keep the same carb count.
If you want to be precise, the easiest way is to weigh them raw, cook the whole batch, then divide evenly.
So an example of this would be if you had 500g of raw potatoes and your target serving size is 100g. That would leave you with 5 equal servings. If once you air fry the potatoes they now only weigh 400g, your new serving size would be 1/5 of the 400g which would be 80g.
Hopefully that answers your question! Also, we want to note that the difference is minimal between a regular cooked and air fried potato. So we often will just track a regular cooked potato in MFP to make things a little more simple.