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Approximately, how many calories does a skinless chicken leg have?

vanityy99
vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
How many calories does your chicken leg/ drum have when you log it in?

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  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,597 Member
    Are you counting the thigh, the drum, or both?
    Are these frozen, or fresh?
    Air Chilled, or prepared in solution?

    Are you weighing them when cooked or un-cooked?
    With or without bone?

    How are you cooking them?
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,488 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Are you counting the thigh, the drum, or both?
    Are these frozen, or fresh?
    Air Chilled, or prepared in solution?

    Are you weighing them when cooked or un-cooked?
    With or without bone?

    How are you cooking them?

    You forgot with or without skin :), h.
  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Are you counting the thigh, the drum, or both?
    Are these frozen, or fresh?
    Air Chilled, or prepared in solution?

    Are you weighing them when cooked or un-cooked?
    With or without bone?

    How are you cooking them?

    Oh ya. Derp.

    Baked, just the leg, skinless. Looks like a medium size leg. 🤔 no weighing going on
  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
    edited November 2019
    I don’t need an EXACT number. I wanna see what everyone gets.
    So I can get an idea ish.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,597 Member
    middlehaitch wrote: »
    You forgot with or without skin :), h.

    NOPE Ms. 50th percentile H! @vanityy99 specified skinless in her title -- so it was not an open question! Though I did wonder about adding cooked in breading -- breading not eaten! :lol:
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,597 Member
    edited November 2019
    Chicken, broilers or fryers, dark meat, meat only, cooked, roasted

    You can figure approximately 2 Cal per gram of weight that you ate (which you can estimate based on previous weigh ins).

    According to USDA 81g of the above is about 166 Cal

    if one looks at: Chicken, broilers or fryers, dark meat, thigh, meat only, cooked, braised, one skinless thigh would clock in at about 111g and be 195 Cal.

    Back in April 2015, before I discovered USDA and using more generic entries, I had "standardized" my Rotisserie Chickens as follows: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/PAV8888?month=201504 (middle post)

    ETA: nando's lists their 1/4 chicken at 160 and so does swiss chalet. I would classify swiss chalet 1/4 chicken dark as... small :blush: They would be with skin but no sauce (for swiss chalet). Boston market lists their quarter dark (1 thigh and drumstick) as 230. So without skin it would be in the upper part of the range you list below.
  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
    I looked at the mfp gallery. It seems to be between 72-180 cals.

  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    vanityy99 wrote: »
    I looked at the mfp gallery. It seems to be between 72-180 cals.

    Getting a food scale and using entries that came from the USDA database will eliminate that ridiculously large range.

    You may or may not have a standard sized leg (whatever that is) but the value for that is: Chicken, broilers or fryers, leg, meat only, cooked, roasted, 1 leg, bone and skin removed: 165 calories.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    vanityy99 wrote: »
    I looked at the mfp gallery. It seems to be between 72-180 cals.

    Based on the info available, nobody here can get any closer than that.
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