how to calculate chicken fat

scotyoungg
scotyoungg Posts: 3 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I have a pack of 5x chicken breasts skin on in a sweet chilli marinade. scanned the barcode fair amount of fat in it, so i took the skin off. how do i measure the macros/calories and how do i deduct it from the diary

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  • harper16
    harper16 Posts: 2,564 Member
    Did you weigh the chicken before and after you removed the skin?
  • scotyoungg
    scotyoungg Posts: 3 Member
    no, but i have 4 left so any advice given will be used for the rest
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    scotyoungg wrote: »
    I have a pack of 5x chicken breasts skin on in a sweet chilli marinade. scanned the barcode fair amount of fat in it, so i took the skin off. how do i measure the macros/calories and how do i deduct it from the diary

    For plain chicken breasts, you can search the database for the USDA entry for chicken, breast, raw, meat only (or something like that). The USDA entries specify skin included or not.

    For a product that was pre marinated there's no way to know how much of the marinade got into the meat and how much was concentrated into the skin, but maybe compare the calories in your product to the calories in a plain chicken breast and then use your best judgement to split the difference?
  • scotyoungg
    scotyoungg Posts: 3 Member
    edited May 2020
    ok so the average chicken breast (172g) with skin removed is 100 calories less and 9g of fat less. how do i edit this in the diary on the app?
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,918 Member
    scotyoungg wrote: »
    ok so the average chicken breast (172g) with skin removed is 100 calories less and 9g of fat less. how do i edit this in the diary on the app?

    Choose a chicken breast, raw, skinless, boneless in the list.

    If you do that, you get a lot of hits.

    Pick one you like...I use the nutrition info from the package of frozen breast strips I buy.
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