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Looking for USDA entry Chicken Drumstick

yirara
yirara Posts: 10,111 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I'm looking for a database entry for chicken drumstick, boneless, no skin, uncooked from USDA but can't find anything. MFP is only giving my rubbish results. Can anyone help? I still have a pack in the freezer that I want to use for a curry, without skin and bone for several days while the calories are for the meat with skin and bone by the look of it. Thanks.

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  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,488 Member
    Try this-
    https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/173614/nutrients

    Cheers, h.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,111 Member
    Thanks a lot hun! I tried this dreaded new website, but always got error messages. I'll use this entry for the weird concoction that I'll cook tonight.
  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 3,188 Member
    If if were me, I would simply use “chicken dark meat”.
  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 3,188 Member
    Can’t figure out how to edit post on phone. They also have “chicken dark meat no skin” and depending on if you are entering your weights are raw vs cooked, ; oz raw protein ends up 3 ounce cooked. So just do the math.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,111 Member
    Well, the problem is that I could not get onto the USDA website to check calories, and I got complete rubbish-database entries here. I usually try USDA entries here, but those that I got were completely wrong, or not in grams. Seemed to have been a hickup here as well as now it works as it should.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,111 Member
    You know, one of those occasional MFP hickups where you search for lettuce and get either results in cups, or lettuce with 20gr fat per 100gr, or only salads.
  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 3,188 Member
    this entry "Chicken - Thigh Meat, No Skin, Raw" most closely matches what @middlehaitch offered you. and it does offer grams
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,111 Member
    Yes, I found it now. Not previously. So basically a database hickup
  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 3,188 Member
    yirara wrote: »
    Yes, I found it now. Not previously. So basically a database hickup

    hope you are set now :)
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,111 Member
    Yep, and my dinner was delicious and absolutely within my calorie goal.
  • SModa61
    SModa61 Posts: 3,188 Member
    love it! :)
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,128 Member
    SModa61 wrote: »
    this entry "Chicken - Thigh Meat, No Skin, Raw" most closely matches what @middlehaitch offered you. and it does offer grams

    Or can just copy and paste the text string from USDA database to find the same entry in MFP database.

    Chicken, broilers or fryers, dark meat, drumstick, meat only, raw
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