Cooked, skinless split chicken breasts

pugladee1
pugladee1 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition

Why does Fitness Pal count 4 oz of baked, skinless bone-in spilt chicken as 190 calories? Both WW and Noom have it as much less?

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,269 Member

    because cooked chicken loses a lot of water weight. My rule of thumb is 20%. So 5 ounces of raw chicken cooks up to about 4.


    why are you weighing cooked values anyway?

    It is far more accurate to weigh and log in-cooked ingredients.

    For example, if you’ve cooked that chicken with an ounce of (potentially high calorie) marinade or sauce, using your method you’re calculating the weight of the sauce as chicken, too, if you’re weighing after cooking.

    Same with rice or pasta. Far easier to weigh either before cooking versus after. Less messy, too, and less potential of being clumsy and burning yourself in the process. (That’d be me!!!)

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,269 Member

    and also, if it’s not boneless, I’d weigh the bone afterwards and deduct it from the weight. You don’t eat the bone.

    Same with a TBone.

  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,542 Member
    edited September 14

    Weighing chicken breast raw is generally the way to go. The problem you run into is some of them are injected with water to make them heavier so they can sell them for more money so you end up weighing too much water.

    I've weighed before cooking and I've weighed after cooking and I haven't really noticed a difference in what my weight does and I eat a lot of chicken breast


    you can weigh it before and after cooking and if it lost more than 25% of weight it stands to reason that it had added water.

  • lesdarts180
    lesdarts180 Posts: 3,551 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10946759/cooked-skinless-split-chicken-breasts

    Why? Because someone - a user like you - entered that value and perhaps for him/her it was the correct value for what they had cooked. The database is almost entirely user-entered and you can probably find numerous entries for chicken - baked, roast, fried, with/without sauce/dressings etc and of course, raw, with or without bone, breast or thigh etc etc. Just keep looking for what seems to best represent what you have.

    Personally, like @springlering62 , I would always, where possible, weigh, raw, in grams and find an entry for 100g of raw chicken. If eating out I just choose a "good enough" entry from the database.

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