Weighing boned chicken

incisron
incisron Posts: 550 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
When you weigh dark meat chicken like drumsticks, say for a 4 oz serving, is it meant to be weighed with the bone in or out? And say if you weighed 4 oz of dark meat without bone, would you be eating more calories?
Feeling nervous after I ate drumsticks.

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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Weigh it, eat the meat, re-weigh the bones and subtract them.
  • incisron
    incisron Posts: 550 Member
    Ok, so the weight is for the meat alone and not the bones? Just clarifying as I'm pretty worried.
  • sandsofarabia
    sandsofarabia Posts: 95 Member
    Yeah, the weight is without bones.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    incisron wrote: »
    Ok, so the weight is for the meat alone and not the bones? Just clarifying as I'm pretty worried.
    Why are you worried? You are talking of 25 calories or so.
  • Protranser
    Protranser Posts: 517 Member
    Same with ribs. Weigh the bones and subtract. Unless you're eating the bones, too.
  • allyphoe
    allyphoe Posts: 618 Member
    Cooked dark meat chicken (no skin no bone) approximates 55 calories an ounce. I'd log 4 ounces of drumstick meat as 210 calories.
  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
    Weight is for what you eat...so do you eat the bones.....

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  • NikkiMichelleS
    NikkiMichelleS Posts: 897 Member
    edited December 2015
    I've had this same question many times, but never asked!
    What about the entries that differentiate bone-out? I sometimes assumed that meant the other listed USDA entries included the bone in.
    I typically weigh entire weight of the drumstick, thigh, etc & then shave off a an ounce.
    I never thought to weigh, eat, weigh just bones, for just the meat eaten weight. Duh. Thanks

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