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Chicken Breast Weight

SingerWang_1979
SingerWang_1979 Posts: 10
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey,

I'm trying to eat a low card/high protein diet. I am doing a fair bit of chicken breasts. I do noticed that the weight of my chicken goes down by about 25% when I cook them (mostly water I guess). So is the calories I find on this site for it post or pre-cooked? Which one should I do?

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  • Iron_Feline
    Iron_Feline Posts: 10,750 Member
    Select the option that says raw or cooked by the appropriate method depending on when you weighed it.

    Pick options with no stars as they are more accurate.
  • sammi_williams
    sammi_williams Posts: 24 Member
    I do mine post weight. I weigh before and after, but the before weight has a lot of water in it.
  • Iron_Feline
    Iron_Feline Posts: 10,750 Member
    You'll find that if you do both with the appropriate weights they should be roughly the same.

    But it's not an exact science.
  • tycho_mx
    tycho_mx Posts: 426 Member
    edited February 2015
    the one corresponding to the entry you're using. Both raw and cooked are in the database - "cooked", if weighed after cooking.
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