Fried chicken

charleycartee

I'm trying to figure out nutrition info for fried chicken. There are so many different fried chicken entries in the database that I really am having a hard time to figure out which to use.

The place is old Dixie fried chicken in Orlando, a local place that has been here for ever (and is sadly closing soon)

To me, the way they make their chicken is the right way to do it. Not a thick breading, just a light dredge in flour before frying. Since that isn't really typical for most places selling chicken, I'm hesitant to use most of them.

charleycartee

Right now I'm looking at entering it as something like this... Though the calories seem kind of low for a breast, so I doubled it.

LazSommer

My 8oz of baked chicken USDA entry is 360 calories. Your two breasts of fried chicken are not 436 calories.

charleycartee

it really depends on how big though chicken breasts are. That entry is just over 60g of protein and chicken is about 8g per ounce, so that's around 7.5 ounces of chicken meat.

If those 2 chicken breasts are 7.5 ounces of meat (337.5 calories using your number for baked) and it's fried at the right temperature to not retain much oil, say 2 tsp worth of oil (80ish calories) and it's lightly dredged in 0.5 tbsp of flour (14 calories) plus salt/pepper/other seasonings (maybe as much as 5 calories) it would be 436.5 calorie, which is pretty much spot on.

That assumes no skin, which doesn't match my case, and it assumes proper frying to wind up with low oil retention.

OhMsDiva

If you have already eaten it then it is a moot point. You already have in your mind what you think the nutritional value is so just go with it. It wont make that much of a difference unless you are eating it several times per week.

_pi3_

Just use it as a "cheat" and move on if you're not eating it every day there's nothing to focus on

Like a once a month thing is no biggy