Does a chicken kebab (thigh meat in pitta bread) contain much saturated fat?

jordanoye101
jordanoye101 Posts: 33 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
My dad needs to keep his saturated fat down for health reasons and doctors orders. Every Friday we have a Chicken Kebab (Thigh meat carved off a rotisserie or spit type thing) in a very thin pitta bread and loaded with salad, a little mayonnaise from our local fish and chip shop. No chips.

I have never known the nutrition of a Chicken Kebab but I guess it cant be too unhealthy as its just bread, chicken and salad. Since it is cooked at a very high temperature allot of the fat is rendered anyway.??

They tend to be loaded with chicken and over spilling and generally a mess to eat!


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  • aeloine
    aeloine Posts: 2,163 Member
    I guess I'd be worried about the mayo but I'm not sure about the rest of it!
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    116 grams of chicken thigh without skin has 2.6 grams of saturated fat. I'm not sure how much chicken would be in a pita that is loaded with chicken, but maybe that will help you calculate. There is also saturated fat in the mayonnaise (about 1.5 grams per tablespoon).

    Instead of considering this food in isolation, it might be more helpful to figure how it fits in with the rest of what he is eating. That is going to be more important than any individual meal.
  • aeloine
    aeloine Posts: 2,163 Member
    Consider taking one home and taking It apart. If you can weigh the ingredients separately, you might be able to get a better understanding of the calories/fat in the kebab. If you don't want to get messy, maybe just ask them to pack the ingredients separately once, and use that to base off of for future use.

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