Shredded chicken - 184 calories per 100 gram!?

There are just so many variables.

Was the chicken rotisserie or baked or grilled or cooked some other way? Is it just chicken breast or all chicken meat mixed? What was the nutrition of the food that the chicken ate?

Most of the top search results on Google for shredded chicken just have the estimates that users have put into MFP and other sites like it.

If you got it from the supermarket deli, it was probably from the unsold rotisserie chicken and it probably includes a mix of meat from the whole chicken. That will have more calories and fat than shredded chicken made from skinless chicken breasts. How much more? There's no real way to tell.

We can never be completely accurate with calorie and macro counting, especially when the foods aren't prepared in a uniform way. All we can do is estimate the best we can. That's still more accurate than not trying.

If you buy it from the grocery store it should have nutritional information (I guess unless it's from the deli section where they make it in store). If it doesn't have nutrition information use the USDA's site for 100g depending on the kind of meat they include in the shredded meat. Also, make sure you're looking at cooked entries and not raw (raw will have less calories in 100g).

USDA food list: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list

You can also cook a whole chicken in a crockpot. Just ball up some tinfoil to sit underneath it so it doesn't sit in a bunch of juice/fat. Personally, my go to for chicken in the crockpot is boneless, skinless thighs. I feel like white meat dries out in the crockpot no matter how careful I am with it.

Y_A_F_A wrote: »

I put chicken breasts in a crockpot and just make my own shredded chicken - almost zero effort. :-)

This is what I do.

However, if I wanted to know the calories of the deli stuff, I'd ask the grocery store how it was prepared.

Well is it dark or white meat? I'd use the dark meat entry just in case... and dark meat is about 200 calories for 100g. So I guess if it's a mix of both, 180 isn't too far off.

It's definitely not 100 either way, as 100g of cooked chicken breast is closer to 120 calories, and that's with all the fat trimmed.

I pretty much never use the entries in the database unless I check them myself to be accurate. I enter a lot of things myself, by either the nutrition label, or by the USDA website. I'd rather take the time to be accurate than use other entries and be quick.