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chicken mixed meat

mel49e
mel49e Posts: 8 Member
edited February 5 in Food and Nutrition
hi all .
is there an easy way to calculate chicken calories when its mixed meat , as in some thigh , some leg .....all skinless per 100 g

Its one of the roast in the bag ones

Thanks

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,476 Member
    I usually just find an entry for rotisserie, thigh or rotisserie, breast. There are entries in the database for legs and wings too - with or without skin.

    It's a lot of trouble to try to break it down, so maybe just find a "half chicken, roasted" and use a percentage...?

    I dunno, it's not a perfect science.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    edited January 2021
    theres an entry in the database

    Whole Broiler Chicken (Usda) - Whole Broiler Chicken

    Servings:

    Calories 160 Sodium 60 mg
    Total Fat 7 g Potassium -- mg
    Saturated 2 g Total Carbs 0 g
    Polyunsaturated -- g Dietary Fiber -- g
    Monounsaturated -- g Sugars -- g
    Trans -- g Protein 22 g
    Cholesterol 70 mg
    Vitamin A 0% Calcium 2%
    Vitamin C 0% Iron 6%
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,476 Member
    Yeah, well that broiler chicken doesn't state a portion size, but I'm guessing that is a mixed portion of both...maybe 100g portion?

    That isn't a lot of help. A whole chicken? Is that a 1.5 pound chicken or a 3 pound chicken?

    Regardless, 160 calories and 7g fat probably is a mix and skinless.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    if you bother to pull it up it does give a serving size.

    i imagine its an average of all of it but in your own words " it's not a perfect science. "

  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,138 Member
    if you don't want to weigh the portions from the various parts of the chicken, I would go with this entry

    Chicken, broilers or fryers, meat only, cooked, roasted

    (see https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/171054/nutrients
  • mel49e
    mel49e Posts: 8 Member
    edited February 2021
    thank you everyone for the replies much appreciated . we have decided to just buy chicken breasts in future make it simple . More disapointed for our 2 dogs which as a healthy treat they used to eat the skin and any left overs (not the bones) .

    Basically it will also stop the temptation to ' pick ' at the left overs
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