Dumb Question By A Nutritionally Challenged Person

If 1 lb. of Perdue raw ground chicken has 724 calories, why does it have 880 calories when it is cooked?

I don't know. But the calories raw are sort of useless arent' they? WHo's going to eat raw chicken? Seriously unhealthy. Salmonella city.

Good question, though.

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I'm assuming that the calories you quoted were each for one pound of ground chicken... so one pound of raw chicken will not weigh one pound after it has been cooked. It will weigh less... due to moisture loss. So you would actually have to start out with MORE than one pound of raw chicken to end up with one pound cooked. For example, maybe you have 1.25 pound of raw chicken (724 x 1.25 = 905 calories), but after you cook it (if you were to weigh it again) now lets say it weighs 1 pound. So this one pound of cooked chicken would still contain 905 calories (now it just weighs less). So no, cooking does not add calories to the total volume of food (unless, of course you add oil)... but it does reduce the volume (and weight) of the food. So either measure it before you cook it and use the raw calories, or measure it AFTER YOU COOK IT and used the cooked calories. Either way, you should find out that its the same number of calories. Actually, maybe you should just do a little experiment to prove it to yourself... measure it both raw and cooked and calculate it both ways. I hope this has been helpful... or at least that I don't sound insane! And obviously this is not a dumb question! Good for you for educating yourself on your health!