Lean ground chicken

Scylermcf
Scylermcf Posts: 25 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Does anybody know how many calories is in 300g of cooked lean ground chicken. Should I go by what 100g of what the package says or is it different cause its cooked.

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  • MistressPi
    MistressPi Posts: 514 Member
    It's my understanding that 25% of the mass of most meats is lost through cooking (fat renders, water exudes and evaporates). If I intend to consume all of the rendered fat in a recipe (that is, I don't drain off the fat) then I log the raw weight value.

    So, if I'm making soup with 300g of lean ground chicken, I would log the chicken as 300g raw. If, however, I'm making burgers out of that chicken, or otherwise leaving behind what comes out of the burgers after they are cooked, I would log

    300 * 0.75 = 225 g cooked ground chicken.

    Does that make sense?

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