Chicken breast calories

hungrypotato

I bought a bag of Tyson raw skinless, boneless chicken breast and there are 100 calories in 4 oz.


What are the raw calories vs cooked calories since it decreases in size. I'm a bit confused.

I bake them with seasonings. No extra calories with oil or anything.

cajuntank

I normally count the raw since that's the information given on the container. What I do when I get already cooked chicken (breast in this situation) is weigh and multiply it by 1.25 to get an estimated raw weight, although you will find entries in MFP that do state cooked.

corgicake

Water content. Lots of water content. Because I'm the type to toss meat into pots with other stuff, I use mostly raw weights because raw is how meat usually is sold. Raw chicken is raw chicken. Just use the first plausible-looking entry on the system you see.

lemurcat12

There are official (non user provided) entries for both raw and cooked chicken of various cuts in the system. Use the ones without the asterisk, which will match up with the info at other calorie count sites. The raw is more accurate if you can weigh it that way, because the cooked varies based on how long and how you cook it, but the cooked entry is fine if that's your best option for weighing. IME the user-provided entries can be all over the place.