What's the Difference Between Fried and Roasted Meat (USDA)?

darreneatschicken

For example, if you search "cooked chicken breast" in the USDA database, it comes up with a variety of entries, including:

Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, cooked, roasted: 100 grams = 165 cals, 4 fat, 31 protein
Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, cooked, fried: 100 grams = 187 cals, 5 fat, 33 protein

I read online that "fried" is when you cook meat over a stove in a pan with oil.
"Roasted" is when you bake the meat in an oven without oil.

So is the USDA entry for "fried" chicken more calories and fat because it assumes that you are cooking the meat in oil?

I usually add the oil that I use as a separate entry, so even if I do cook my meat in a pan over the stove, I should use the "roasted" option, right?

Tracking your calories can be so confusing sometimes...

kshama2001

asianambition wrote: »

For example, if you search "cooked chicken breast" in the USDA database, it comes up with a variety of entries, including:

Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, cooked, roasted: 100 grams = 165 cals, 4 fat, 31 protein
Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, cooked, fried: 100 grams = 187 cals, 5 fat, 33 protein

I read online that "fried" is when you cook meat over a stove in a pan with oil.
"Roasted" is when you bake the meat in an oven without oil.

So is the USDA entry for "fried" chicken more calories and fat because it assumes that you are cooking the meat in oil?

I usually add the oil that I use as a separate entry, so even if I do cook my meat in a pan over the stove, I should use the "roasted" option, right?

Tracking your calories can be so confusing sometimes...

Is this case I would make a recipe - add the oil, and use a raw chicken entry. Use the total weight in grams of your cooked food in the recipe builder in Servings. Add however much you ate in grams as the servings.

I did this last night for fried plantains. I ate 39 grams: