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Frozen chicken breast macros once cooked

smoovee7
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Ok, I have been researching this and have one question. The consensus is that you weigh your food before cooked, or if you weigh it cooked, then put cooked in MyFitnessPal. So I found 2 potential entries for logging my frozen chicken breast after cooking them. I am using the third version cooked with green checkmark.
Chicken breast, meat only, cooked roasted (3.5 OZ is 30.8 grams protein and 164 calories)
Chicken breast, skinless, boneless, baked (3.5 OZ is 18.6 grams protein and 123 calories)
I am using Chicken breast cooked (with the green checkmark) 3.5 OZ is 30.8 grams protein and 164 calories
As you can see there is a huge difference in the protein amount. I buy the frozen 10 LB bag of chicken breast at Walmart, and bake the chicken in the oven, weight and eat.
Overall I just wondered why the huge difference between roasting and baking? I am guessing I am going to use baked since I am baking it, just want to make sure i'm on the right track because of the big protein difference.
Chicken breast, meat only, cooked roasted (3.5 OZ is 30.8 grams protein and 164 calories)
Chicken breast, skinless, boneless, baked (3.5 OZ is 18.6 grams protein and 123 calories)
I am using Chicken breast cooked (with the green checkmark) 3.5 OZ is 30.8 grams protein and 164 calories
As you can see there is a huge difference in the protein amount. I buy the frozen 10 LB bag of chicken breast at Walmart, and bake the chicken in the oven, weight and eat.
Overall I just wondered why the huge difference between roasting and baking? I am guessing I am going to use baked since I am baking it, just want to make sure i'm on the right track because of the big protein difference.
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It's really not a huge difference if you take note of the difference in calories (the roasted entry is about 5.3 calories per gram of protein, and the baked entry is about 6.6 calories per gram of protein).
I checked the USDA database, and the figures (30.8 grams of protein and 164 calories) you have for 3.5 oz is close to the values for 100 g (which is 3.5 oz) of "Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, cooked, roasted" 165 kcal and 31.02 g protein), per the USDA database.
There is no USDA database entry for Chicken breast, meat only, cooked roasted, but there is one for "Chicken, broiler or fryers, breast, skinless, boneless, meat only, cooked, grilled," which should be similar, as roasted and grilled are both dry-heat cooking methods. The USDA database says 100 g of grill breast meat is 151 kcal and 30.54 g protein. I suspect your the "baked" entry you found on MFP is either a user-created entry with user error, or an entry that has become corrupted (a few years back MFP ran an "update" that tried to create oz for g entries and vice versa, and it didn't always work great. I think that was the same "fix" that generated the 1,000 calorie single clove of garlic.)
Moral -- you need to check database entries. Don't rely on the green check (which only means some algorithm that MFP is applying has decided that enough users have clicked the "is this entry correct button").1 -
I understand, really appreciate your feedback so much!0
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