boneless chicken, raw, (thigh/drumstick), with skin

yirara

Looking for calories for both chicken thigh and drumstick without bone but with skin. Am having a readymade ovendish today and tomorrow with basically just chicken, oil, chili and salt, and can't work out the calories. The info on the packaging doesn't make sense unless bone weight is somehow in there. This database and USDA doesn't really help (guess my search sucks).

cmriverside

When I cook whole chicken or when I eat precooked chicken I take off the skin and bone, and just log the meat part AND I use "cooked" entries - there are entries with skin in the USDA database. I find the bones and skin add about 20-30% more weight. Luckily chicken is pretty low cal so I don't spend a lot of time worrying about it.

yirara

I'm eating it with skin as there's a marinade on it. Otherwise I could just throw a chicken thigh in an oven dish without any taste to it. From the list and % of ingredients I know how much fat and other things are in there. I know there are entries with skin and without bone. I just can't find them to figure out how many calories are really in there.

cmriverside

It's not a perfect system.

05091, Chicken, broilers or fryers, thigh, meat and skin, raw
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/05091?fgcd=&manu=&format=&count=&max=25&offset=&sort=default&order=asc&qlookup=chicken+raw+thigh+with+skin&ds=&qt=&qp=&qa=&qn=&q=&ing=

deannalfisher

i would probably guesstimate the amount of oil used in the marinade - chili/salt are negligible calories; the kicker will be how much oil is absorbed

yirara

cmriverside wrote: »

It's not a perfect system.

05091, Chicken, broilers or fryers, thigh, meat and skin, raw
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/05091?fgcd=&manu=&format=&count=&max=25&offset=&sort=default&order=asc&qlookup=chicken+raw+thigh+with+skin&ds=&qt=&qp=&qa=&qn=&q=&ing=

I so tried to find this, but didn't get it for some reason. Either I got no results or skin removed. Argh!

yirara

deannalfisher wrote: »

i would probably guesstimate the amount of oil used in the marinade - chili/salt are negligible calories; the kicker will be how much oil is absorbed

I should get fairly close as the packaging mentions the percentage of oil used. I know I won't eat all of it but some as I have a chiabatta for dipping