Is this Tyson Chicken Accurate?

Looks like the second entry isn't cooked. If so, yeah, sounds about right.

Edit: Sorry, bad critical reading skills I guess! Meat loses moisture when you cook it, and water has weight, so an ounce of cooked chicken will have more calories and protein than an ounce of raw chicken.

Tyson - 100% All Natural Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast With Rib Meat - Cooked, 4.5 oz

This is the problem for me. It doesn't specify how it was cooked. Cooking method matters for meat especially comparing 6g of fat in cooked vs 1g of fat in raw~ It surely doesn't take 27 oz of raw chicken to get 4.5 oz of cooked meat so I would definitely not use it. That's around 40 unknown calories for me. And since my serving size is around double of that, that'd make 80 cals. Bad input.

Use the raw if you weighed the meat raw. If you haven't, just guesstimate how heavy your meat could be before cooked and add the calories from oil, condiments, vegetables etc whatever you use in your recipe.

Next time if you use the recipe calculator under the Food tab, you'll have an easier time, especially if it's a recipe you use regularly Measure and log everything in raw, decide on number of servings and voila!

I think 7.4 oz sounds okay, maybe a bit overestimated but it's better to be on the safe side.

I think it looks good. Hope you're less confused about weighing raw thing. You'll get used to it once you start using that :flowerforyou:

Also, if I was getting results with the way I was doing...should I really stop weighing it cooked?

Yes, it's counterproductive with most food. If you weight 4 oz. meat raw, you can log it perfectly fine as raw and add other ingredients but suppose you baked it without weighing raw and it say 3 oz now. It's all about the water loss and water loss depends on how a food is cooked and how long it's cooked so the meat, cooked (3 0z.) input will be wrong as we don't know what they based that info on (is it baked, at what temperature, for long, or is it boiled etc) when they added it to the database.

Since cooking only takes water weight, it won't matter how heavy your serving weighs when you log them raw, you'll still eat the same amount of proteins, carbs and fats in raw as none of them vaporize.