Does removing fat from raw chicken reduce the calories in a significant way?

xLyric
xLyric Posts: 840 Member
edited November 25 in Food and Nutrition
We've got raw chicken breasts that will be grilled, and a pretty significant amount of fat gets pulled off by hand before it's cooked. Google says chicken fat is 115 calories per tbsp. Could we measure the removed fat and subtract that from the total calorie amount given on the package? It makes sense to me, but I don't usually cook meat so I don't know if I'm missing something.

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  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Just weigh the chicken breast after you pulled off the fat and log that.
  • Dame_sans_merci
    Dame_sans_merci Posts: 74 Member
    I think some of that fat will soak into the chicken breast so won’t be as lean as you hope. I skin all chicken before cooking (even whole ones) and just cook them in new ways to keep them moist
  • xLyric
    xLyric Posts: 840 Member
    bpetrosky wrote: »
    Just weigh the chicken breast after you pulled off the fat and log that.

    We don't have a scale right now unfortunately or that's what we'd do.
  • xLyric
    xLyric Posts: 840 Member
    edited March 2018
    Dame_sans_merci wrote: »
    I think some of that fat will soak into the chicken breast so won’t be as lean as you hope. I skin all chicken before cooking (even whole ones) and just cook them in new ways to keep them moist

    If we take it off it can't soak in. I'm meaning that if the chicken is say 9oz and the package says that weight should be 400 calories (I'm pulling these numbers out of my *kitten*) and we remove a tbsp of fat before cooking, can we then say that chicken is 285 cals? That would account for any soaked in fat since we're only removing calories for what definitely came off.
  • Dame_sans_merci
    Dame_sans_merci Posts: 74 Member
    Sorry, just realised what you were asking. Are they ‘standard’ size chicken breasts? Our ‘standard’ pack of skinless chicken breast is usually 400g for 2 breasts. One usually bigger than other and smaller tends to be 170g. You could just do a search for skinless chicken breast and split the weight of the whole pack equally.
  • mortuseon_
    mortuseon_ Posts: 257 Member
    If the offcuts are ‘pure’ fat then it’s ~9kcal per gram.
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