Why this chicken breast nutrition label is only 10g of protein per 100g?

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  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    edited August 2019
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    Is that cooked? Those are pretty standard numbers for cooked chicken breast.

    Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, cooked, roasted

    100 g, 165 cal, 31 g protein. Looks slightly lower in fat, that's all.

    Uncooked the same thing would be:

    100 g, 120 cal, 22.5 g protein. The difference is the amount of water -- 100 g raw cooks down to about 72 g, apparently.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 9,964 Member
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    erickirb wrote: »
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    erickirb wrote: »
    lots of water making it heavier and that portion would not have cal, fat or carbs. then there is also the stabilizer (whatever that is) .. just chicken breast would also not have 3.1 grams of carbs.

    so, out of that 100grams, about 40-45 grams is chicken (based on the 24 grams protein per 100g) most of the other 55-60 grams would be the water added

    Except that plain, raw, skinless, boneless chicken breast is, like most foods other than pure fats and sugar, mostly water. There is about 74 grams of water in 100 g of plain, unbrined, raw, skinless, boneless chicken breast. It looks like they've added less than 10 grams of water in the form of brining solution per 100 g of end product.


    https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/05062?fgcd=&manu=&format=&count=&max=25&offset=&sort=default&order=asc&qlookup=Chicken,+broiler+or+fryers,+breast,+skinless,+boneless,+meat+only,+raw&ds=SR&qt=&qp=&qa=&qn=&q=&ing=


    But to lower protein from 24 grams/100g to 10/100, tells me that water greater than 55 grams was added, otherwise protein would be 22 grams if they only added 10grams of water.

    So in this case out of the 100 grams:
    3.1g carbs (carbs in chicken??, what did they add to this thing)
    10g protein (this would be 100/24*10 or 41.7 grams of chicken breast including fat, protein and water)
    2.2g fat
    3.2g salt
    81.5g water

    OK, I see what you're saying now. Sorry.
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,467 Member
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    From the top, 100 grams= 101.7 calories
    Then, fat 2.2 g x 9 calories = 20 calories
    Carb. 3.1 g x 4. 12.4
    Protein. 10 g. X 4. 40
    _____
    72.4

    101.7 =/= 72.4

    Where did the rest of the calories in the original 100 grams come from?
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 9,964 Member
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    corinasue1143 wrote: »
    From the top, 100 grams= 101.7 calories
    Then, fat 2.2 g x 9 calories = 20 calories
    Carb. 3.1 g x 4. 12.4
    Protein. 10 g. X 4. 40
    _____
    72.4

    101.7 =/= 72.4

    Where did the rest of the calories in the original 100 grams come from?

    Alcohol?
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,389 Member
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    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    corinasue1143 wrote: »
    From the top, 100 grams= 101.7 calories
    Then, fat 2.2 g x 9 calories = 20 calories
    Carb. 3.1 g x 4. 12.4
    Protein. 10 g. X 4. 40
    _____
    72.4

    101.7 =/= 72.4

    Where did the rest of the calories in the original 100 grams come from?

    Alcohol?

    These are Arabic packages. Considering even personal care products with alcohol can be very problematic in some countries I highly doubt there's alcohol in this chicken.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
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    corinasue1143 wrote: »
    From the top, 100 grams= 101.7 calories
    Then, fat 2.2 g x 9 calories = 20 calories
    Carb. 3.1 g x 4. 12.4
    Protein. 10 g. X 4. 40
    _____
    72.4

    101.7 =/= 72.4

    Where did the rest of the calories in the original 100 grams come from?

    The label seems inaccurate. I don't think there's really another explanation. The high protein/low fat tenders seem inaccurate to me too (mainly due to the fat level), although not as significantly. My vote would be just buy chicken, raw, not packaged, and use basic information for chicken.

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