Calories - before or after cooking?

moanymoany

I was looking at the calorie content of a pack of sausages and it suddenly occurred to me that I didn't know if the lists for calories, fat etc were for before or after cooking.

Bacon, for example, when grilled loses loads of fat. Unless you dip your bread in the 'dip' as we called it, it is not eaten.

I think it must be before cooking, but does anyone know?

Plum_Pie

It's before cooking - as sold, because the manufacturer has no control over how you cook the poduct - you could fry the bacon in more oil!

There was a very interesting Dispatches on Ch4 a while ago, where various foods were sent to labs for testing to see if the nutritional labelling was correct. There was something like a 20% error margin which was quite scary although most of the miscalculated products were ready meals.... so not something most OSers have to worry about!