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Calories in cooked chicken breast with olive oil.

sidnee27
sidnee27 Posts: 1
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I'm pretty sure I'm wayyyy over-thinking this and it's probably a dumb question, but I'm really anal about my calorie counting lately.

Typically, I cook 8 ounces of boneless skinless chicken breast in 1 tablespoon of olive oil for dinner. Though, I've never known how to factor the calories exactly. I know 8 oz of chicken is about 240 calories and 1 tablespoon of olive oil is 120 calories. Does it come out to 360 calories...like do I count all of the calories in the olive oil? Do some of the calories in the olive oil get cooked away? Or is it more calories for some reason? Like I said, probably a dumb question!

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  • NesianStyle
    NesianStyle Posts: 16
    If you use the food database up top it has it all listed so you can easily figure out how many calories the chicken and olive oil are.
  • coliema
    coliema Posts: 7,646 Member
    I'm not sure of an exact answer, but I know that all of that olive oil isn't on your chicken, some is cooked away possibly or left in the pan.

    I'm curious as to how this works too, I just log it normally with what I used, I never thought about it that way.
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