Calories in a Stewing Hen vs a Fryer or Broiling chicken
AMRROL
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I have Goggled but can't find out if the calories in a stewing hen are the same as a broiler/fryer. Making a big pot of chicken soup with a very large stewing hen in the crock pot tonight. After I pick the meat off the bones, how do I count the calories, as it will be shredded meat from the entire hen. Thanks
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The "Chicken - Meat only, roasted" entry in the database would be what I would go with.0
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The non-asterisk entries (which is what the poster above referred to) are generally correct. They are the USDA entries. Not all meat has calorie information on the packaging.0
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the terms "broiler/fryer" and "stewing hen" only refer to the age of the bird when it's slaughtered. if i remember right, broiler/fryers are about 8 months old, while stewing hens are over a year... but check with his holy magnate, st. alton brown, on the specifics because i can't remember.
it's all chicken, and should just be counted as chicken.
by the way, a cornish game hen is nothing more than a chicken that's something like 3-4 months old. it's not a completely different species of bird.0 -
HotMamaInWorks wrote: »chubby_checkers wrote: »The "Chicken - Meat only, roasted" entry in the database would be what I would go with.
doubtful as most of the entries in database are WRONG. It should be on the packaging.
That's the entry without an asterisk. It means it was MFP created and will match what the USDA says.0 -
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meridianova wrote: »by the way, a cornish game hen is nothing more than a chicken that's something like 3-4 months old. it's not a completely different species of bird.
I always figured they were actually pigeons that someone caught, sold to the market, and passed them off as chickens
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I would use the entry with no * that says chicken-meat only, stewed. Or use the entry without an * that says chicken - meat only, raw.
Either way, pick it off the bones and weigh in grams would be most accurate, but doing that to a raw chicken is messy, so I would personally go with the first option.0 -
Thanks everyone for the advice. As I am an expat living in Switzerland, they don't have the same label requirements as the USA. 50% of the items have no nutritional labels. BTW, this is one huge stewing hen. I've never seen one so big. I cut it up in pieces, and froze half for use at a later time. In the crock pot now happily simmering away.0
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