Chicken Wings

DirtyTrickster
DirtyTrickster Posts: 202 Member
edited November 25 in Food and Nutrition
Chicken wings - how to calculate those calories?

So the package says 250 calories for 4 oz. I assume that is raw.


If I have 16 ounces of raw wings (10 wings) that would = 1000 calories.

Do I just divide the number of calories by the number of wings and get 100 calories per wing, or do I weigh them again after cooking, eat the meat, weigh the scraps and deduct from original?

16 ounces raw = 14 ounces cooked = 1000 calories = 71 calories per ounce

eat wings and measure scraps = 2 ounce = 12 ounces of wings eaten = 860 calories?

All these numbers other than the 250 calories per 4 ounce are hypothetical.


I bake the wings on top of a cooking rack elevate above a cookie sheet. This keeps them out of their own grease and helps keep them a little less messy/sloppy.

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  • DirtyTrickster
    DirtyTrickster Posts: 202 Member
    crazyravr wrote: »
    Weigh what you eat.

    Ok. Say I eat 8oz cooked. is that 500 calories?
  • ActuarialChef
    ActuarialChef Posts: 1,413 Member
    edited October 2015
    Search the database for "chicken meat and skin wing, cooked" or "chicken meat and skin dark, cooked" and enter the weight of the cooked meat & skin that you eat.

    If you peel all of the skin off, search for "chicken meat only wing cooked" or "chicken meat only dark cooked".

    EDIT: Use the entry that has multiple measurements: grams, lbs, oz, etc. and that has the Verified icon -- that's the official USDA entry.
  • CommandaPanda
    CommandaPanda Posts: 451 Member
    DirtyTrickster wrote: »
    crazyravr wrote: »
    Weigh what you eat.

    Ok. Say I eat 8oz cooked. is that 500 calories?

    Basically what he's saying is that once the food is cooked, put it on a scale and then count those. Try weighing them before you cook 'em and once again after. You'll be able to see that some of the weight has been trimmed off from the oven, pan, or fryer.

    So if those wings are 8oz raw and then 7oz cooked. Go ahead and log 7oz. Hope this helps.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    I must log it wrong.. because I weigh before cooking and if it weighs 8 oz raw then I log raw weight in my diary.
    I know it cooks down, water etc..

    And if I take the skin off, I look for chicken legs no skin in grams or ounces ...

    Gosh I guess i could have had more calories then all of this time..
  • DirtyTrickster
    DirtyTrickster Posts: 202 Member
    These wings seem very difficult & confusing to log.

    So basically if I cook 10 ounces of raw wings and it comes out to 8 ounces, those 8 ounces (including bones) are responsible for 625 calories. Each ounce would be 78.125 cal (625/8)

    After eating the meat off of the bones, I would reweigh the bones (2 ounces for example) and would be left with 6 ounces of chicken consumed.

    I'd then multiple those 6 ounces by 78.125 and come up with 468.75 calories.



    Sound right?
  • CommandaPanda
    CommandaPanda Posts: 451 Member
    edited October 2015
    DirtyTrickster wrote: »
    These wings seem very difficult & confusing to log.

    So basically if I cook 10 ounces of raw wings and it comes out to 8 ounces, those 8 ounces (including bones) are responsible for 625 calories. Each ounce would be 78.125 cal (625/8)

    After eating the meat off of the bones, I would reweigh the bones (2 ounces for example) and would be left with 6 ounces of chicken consumed.

    I'd then multiple those 6 ounces by 78.125 and come up with 468.75 calories.



    Sound right?

    Hahaha, see, when you put it like that it sounds like a whole lot of work. I've often contemplated whether I wanted to go the extra mile and re-weigh the bones too because they are probably a significant portion of the weight. But honestly, I think it's easier just to weigh them right after cooking and forget about the bones. I'm cooking wings tonight as a matter of fact which is why this thread drew me in.

    Other people may disagree, but I track as much that's convenient for me. If I'm cooking low-carb chicken tenders, for example, it requires an egg to coat each tender. I may not get 100% of the egg on the piece of chicken and I'm sure a fair amount of it gets fried off the tender when I put it in the pan. But when it comes to logging, I just log a full egg because I'll never get the portions right in that situation.

    But, to answer your question, yes that is exactly how I would do it if I wanted to track only the meat consumed and not account for the bones at all.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    If I was going to eat chicken with a batter coating (egg, crumbs, cheese, seasonings, etc..) , I would actually put the entire recipe in the recipe builder here on MFP and set a portion so I would get part of all the extra ingredients included in the macros especially if sodium is at play here..

    I did eat snow crab last week. 1 pound raw with shells/claws were entered into my diary after I ate them less the weight of the shells/claws. It ended up being around 50% (8 ounces of meat)...

    There is a website that I have somewhere in my bookmarks that tells how to do this...especially if you are trying to weigh cooked meat. If weighing already cooked meat, you give it a multiplier, this is helpful if you eat at a friends house or eat out, etc...

    I will see if I can get that out of my browser and send it to you..
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    Here is a search on MFP on this very topic.. and weighing raw is correct and bones vs no bones, etc.

    also here is another search I did on weighing raw/cooked.. hope this helps put some..

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/search?adv=&search=weighing+meat&title=&author=&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&comment_c=1&group_group=1&within=1+day&date=

    http://www.ontheregimen.com/2013/08/28/how-to-weigh-meat-cooked-or-raw/
  • DirtyTrickster
    DirtyTrickster Posts: 202 Member
    gia07 wrote: »
    Here is a search on MFP on this very topic.. and weighing raw is correct and bones vs no bones, etc.

    also here is another search I did on weighing raw/cooked.. hope this helps put some..

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/search?adv=&search=weighing+meat&title=&author=&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&comment_c=1&group_group=1&within=1+day&date=

    http://www.ontheregimen.com/2013/08/28/how-to-weigh-meat-cooked-or-raw/

    Thank you

  • CommandaPanda
    CommandaPanda Posts: 451 Member
    gia07 wrote: »
    Here is a search on MFP on this very topic.. and weighing raw is correct and bones vs no bones, etc.

    also here is another search I did on weighing raw/cooked.. hope this helps put some..

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/search?adv=&search=weighing+meat&title=&author=&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&comment_c=1&group_group=1&within=1+day&date=

    http://www.ontheregimen.com/2013/08/28/how-to-weigh-meat-cooked-or-raw/

    Jeez, you got me thinking now. I've been scavenging the internet and everybody has a different method. Everyone's reasoning is fantastic. Here's one source that seemed to have a community agreeing on "weigh raw".
    https://reddit.com/r/bodybuilding/comments/2hsyhu/do_you_weigh_meats_raw_or_cooked/
  • ASKyle
    ASKyle Posts: 1,475 Member
    DirtyTrickster wrote: »
    These wings seem very difficult & confusing to log.

    So basically if I cook 10 ounces of raw wings and it comes out to 8 ounces, those 8 ounces (including bones) are responsible for 625 calories. Each ounce would be 78.125 cal (625/8)

    After eating the meat off of the bones, I would reweigh the bones (2 ounces for example) and would be left with 6 ounces of chicken consumed.

    I'd then multiple those 6 ounces by 78.125 and come up with 468.75 calories.



    Sound right?

    No- You do not want to use a raw calorie measurement and then use the cooked weight.

    When we look things lose moisture. If you look at "cooked" entries they are more calorie dense per ounce because the moisture is removed, but each "piece" if you will still has the same amount of calories.

    For what it's worth I just log 100 cals a wing and be done with it.

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