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Dumb Chicken Wing Math

MsCzar
MsCzar Posts: 1,077 Member
in Food and Nutrition
The Tyson bone-in hot wings package says 3oz. is 170 calories (~57calories per oz). Would that be five wings weighed with bones: 8 oz. = 453 or meat/skin only: 6.2 oz. = 351?

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  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,095 Member
    3 oz is roughly 85g? Phew... wings are fairly fatty, plus the sauce on top... I'm not sure this is enough calories for meat and marinade only, thus my guess is that it includes the bones. But I'm not sure. This kind of nutritional info always confuses me big time. I'd say the calories of 8 oz would be 453 calories, but really, not sure if they should be weighed with or without bone.
  • MsCzar
    MsCzar Posts: 1,077 Member
    yirara wrote: »
    I'd say the calories of 8 oz would be 453 calories, but really, not sure if they should be weighed with or without bone.

    Yeah, I'm going with that, even though the cat gets any particularly fatty bits. 😺

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,049 Member
    One of our neighbors owns a Hooters. When I first started working on losing, he catered a neighborhood pool party. I had four wings and thought I’d done great.

    Came home to log them and discovered the stupid things were hundred of calories each- four of them were over half my daily calorie goal. I just started bawling.

    Dietary life lesson that day.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,494 Member
    edited February 15
    Double check with Food Data Central (assuming it continues to dodge DODGE) and see which one matches more closely:

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