Is my homemade chicken broth calorie Free?

96kevinc
96kevinc Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I boiled skinless chicken parts with their bones and used the chicken parts in another dish where I estimated the calories using MyFitnessPal. It seems to me that most of the calories in the chicken broth are thus accounted for. Am I correct in my assumption? If not why?

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  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    There is some protein from the meat and bones that will be in the soup as well as some fat. I doubt it would be calorie free.

    Boullion cubes might be, but I honestly don't know.
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    The only thing calorie free is water
  • Candyspun
    Candyspun Posts: 370 Member
    It's definitely not calorie free, but if you've skimmed the fat off, it wouldn't be crazy high cal. Just look it up in the database, I've had no problem finding broths on there.
  • avskk
    avskk Posts: 1,787 Member
    If you mean that you already accounted for the calories in the broth because you logged the chicken raw and then cooked and ate it, then yes -- your broth isn't calorie-free, but you have already accounted for and logged its calories.

    But if you made the broth, then removed, ate, and logged the cooked chicken -- no. You have not accounted for the calories in the broth, but only those in the cooked chicken.

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