Is my homemade chicken broth calorie Free?

96kevinc

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?

nvmomketo

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

The only thing calorie free is water

Candyspun

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

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.