Weighing chicken?

2undertwomomma
2undertwomomma Posts: 8
in Food and Nutrition
Are you supposed to weigh chicken before or after cooking it? I'm not sure which number gets logged into MFP

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  • goldmay
    goldmay Posts: 258 Member
    Before, unless your nutrition facts specifically state it's for cooked meat.
  • chezjuan
    chezjuan Posts: 747 Member
    It varies by entry. When I cook, I try to find entries for "raw" and weigh the chicken before cooking. If I can't for some reason, I try to find end-result recipes (Fried Chicken for example) and use the cooked weight.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
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  • jillianbeeee
    jillianbeeee Posts: 345 Member
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    :LMAO good one! I really did not know this either! lol
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    What you really need to be careful about is weighing it one way and entering it the other -- that will lead to falsely low or falsely high calorie counts.

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