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Chicken calories

cafisher0404
cafisher0404 Posts: 77 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
How many calories are in an ounce of pan cooked chicken breast? I have looked in the database and online, and keep getting different answers that seem to vary- from a low of 28 to a high of 70. I log the olive oil it's cooked in separately. Thank you!

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  • LazSommer
    LazSommer Posts: 1,851 Member
    Usda
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Are you weighing it before or after it's cooked? If after, then it's absorbed some of the oil, which will throw off the weight/calories. If before, then use a raw entry that is comparable with the USDA database.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    edited May 2016
    It's around 130 calories for 3 ounces of grilled chicken breast cooked.

    If you can weigh it raw, it's better. But even then, nutrition varies quite a bit between USDA and Perdue, for example (120 calories for 4oz for Perdue, USDA says 120 calories for 100g) and there are a LOT of inaccurate 'USDA' entries in the database, so check their site directly.

    https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/885?fgcd=&manu=&lfacet=&format=&count=&max=35&offset=&sort=&qlookup=chicken+breast

    So yeah, I've been on MFP for almost 3.5 year and I still don't know how to log it... when in doubt, double check the USDA entries and use that.
  • cafisher0404
    cafisher0404 Posts: 77 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    Are you weighing it before or after it's cooked? If after, then it's absorbed some of the oil, which will throw off the weight/calories. If before, then use a raw entry that is comparable with the USDA database.[/

    After its cooked, I'll try raw next time, thank you
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